The exhilarating world of used books
The Hindu“I have no idea exactly how many books we have here now. Talking to this young handsome man in his early thirties was as exhilarating as walking through the narrow passages between long lines of huge shelves stacked with old musty books and browsing them at liberty. I entered Leakey’s, the wonderful world of used books, shortly after it was opened in the morning. Started in a first floor room in Grant’s Close in 1979, Leakey’s had further expanded and moved to two other larger spaces before finally settling at the Greyfriars Hall on Church Street. As the story goes, Charles Leakey, struggling with space shortage, came to know that the disused Greyfriars Hall, which was once St. Mary’s Gaelic Church of the 17th century, was under a proposal for sale and a nightclub’s proposal was being considered.
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