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One of Britain's largest stocks of second-hand books ever amassed

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153 points diaphanous | 2 comments | 01 Sep 25 17:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.532s | source
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unsungNovelty ◴[02 Sep 25 05:54 UTC] No.45099560[source]▶
I can only imagine the feeling of visiting this bookshop. Hopefully these books will find a good home.

I just went to Chruch street in Bengaluru which is full of bookshops like this (obviously not at this scale). Bookworm (a new gem I found) and all 3 Blossoms bookstore (famous in Bengaluru) shops is what I covered on my recent visit. Morning 11:30 till evening ~6:30 buying 19 books. And happy to report that it was really crowded as well.

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1. parodysbird ◴[02 Sep 25 06:46 UTC] No.45099847[source]▶
I remember being a young boy spending summers with my grandmother who lived on Church Street. I used to spend whole days in those book shops, good to know they are still a major part of the neighborhood.
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2. unsungNovelty ◴[02 Sep 25 07:31 UTC] No.45100121[source]▶
It definitely is. This was my first visit after 7 years. Cos I only recently moved back to BLR.

And I do remember a time where there was a dip in visitors on weekends (Or maybe I felt?). But that has definitely changed.

Kind of annoying as well with way too crowded blossoms. Good problems to have. :)

There is also https://www.tumblr.com/overheardatblossoms

Looks like it is not updated anymore.