"With every [bookstore] that closes so, too, goes still more of the serendipity that feeds the human spirit." While there may be "infinitely more choice" in buying from online dealers, "to be spoiled for choice extinguishes desire.... I want dirt; I want chaos; I want, above all, mystery. I want to be able to step into a place and have the sense that there I'll find a book, as yet unknown to me, which to some degree will change my life."