The 9 Most Amazing Bookstores in the World

Pardon the source, but this is a great set of pictures and short descriptions of some pretty amazing bookstores. I'd like to visit most of them.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/26/9-of-the-most-amazing-boo_n_659870.html#s117832

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I wonder if e-books, growing as they are in popularity, will turn real books once again into a special item, expensive to produce, fine of quality, and more artisanal than mass-production oriented?

I wonder if the real books someone keeps in their house will be of special value to them or if they'll simply represent what they want others to think they read, while they actually read tawdry teen vampire suck-novels on their electronic tablet? 

I'd hate to see the tangible, physical book die out. There is a substance and a reality to them that are hard to valuate, but which I think have a meaning. I'm not such a fan of e-books, even though I own many PDFs which are exceptionally portable.

There's just something about wandering in a book store with a hot cider in the winter. Or perusing the latest offerings in my local mall bookseller at lunchtime. And bookstores with character are like public houses with character - you just can't help hoping they never die out or change into something lesser.

And if things go bad in the world, we'll still be able to read conventional books by sunlight. Hopefully we'll have saved some good ones.