Arts & Culture
How BookTok is Reviving the Era of Physical Bookselling
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There is a unique magic in holding a physical book. The smell of paper and ink is both familiar and timeless and the weight of the pages offers a tangible connection to the stories that live in our minds. But as time changed between the creation of bookselling guilds to the current rise of Amazon, the appreciation of this craft was lost to many. Ebooks emerged as a vision of the future, with the Kindle allowing for an endless library right at our fingertips. But something always feels like it’s missing: It feels too commercial, too accessible and removes the excitement of picking out books from a bookstore.