We popped into the big Kinokuniya bookshop at KLCC on Monday. After our last outing there I said to Noi that I felt it was holding up quite well in terms of the quality of its display in contrast to the equivalent in Takashimaya in our usual Far Place. That is no longer the case. The literature shelves were distinctly lacking in what I'd regard as essential works. No Balzac at all being just one example.
I suppose real readers get what they need on-line. But I still cannot help but feel that something important is being lost when youngsters who are developing a sense of what it is to be genuinely literate can no longer browse shelves that seek to exemplify that state.
That sounds horribly elitist, I know. It's meant to.
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