{"id":2746,"date":"2013-06-14T17:08:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T22:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2746"},"modified":"2013-06-14T17:08:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T22:08:22","slug":"bookstores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/06\/14\/bookstores","title":{"rendered":"Bookstores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/120271201\/\" title=\"Book vendor by byte, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/56\/120271201_261e362f25_n.jpg?resize=320%2C213\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" alt=\"Book vendor\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\"\/><\/a>I&#8217;ve lamented the fact that there are very few stores in downtown San Francisco that I care about. The closure of bookstores, music stores, tech shops, etc. has been quite annoying to a frequent visitor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today after lunch I took a different path back and stumbled upon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexanderbook.com\/\">Alexander Book Co<\/a>, on 2nd Street (between Market &amp; Mission). I immediately went in. I saw a book that I liked, and the first thing I did? I whipped out my phone and checked it on Amazon. It was about USD$3 cheaper online.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then I remembered that we have to support these indie retailers that are taking the trouble to still run a bricks &amp; mortar store. I put my phone away and continued to find more interesting books, magazines, papers and more.<\/p>\n<p>After browsing three floors, I walked out with many dead tree print items. I felt good. I know I spent more than if I had gotten it from Amazon, but I also know I would have never bought any of those items because I would have never discovered it online.<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t beat a physical space for discovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve lamented the fact that there are very few stores in downtown San Francisco that I care about. The closure of bookstores, music stores, tech shops, etc. has been quite annoying to a frequent visitor.\u00a0 Today after lunch I took a different path back and stumbled upon Alexander Book Co, on 2nd Street (between Market [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[59],"tags":[608,128],"class_list":["post-2746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-book","tag-san-francisco"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-Ii","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}