Do we still need bookshops?

What's the future of bookshops? Do we still need them in 21st century? Is it time to close them down? I believe we need bookshops today more than we did before. Bookshops provide serendipity, and give us a chance to discover what we don't yet know.

All the books that I recommend in this video were discovered not online, but in a bookshop. I seriously doubt I would discover any of them online since algorithms often base their recommendations on the products which we previously experienced.

I hope at least one of the books that I recommend in this video will end up in your reading list as well:

Darrin McMahon, Divine Fury: A History of Genius
Umberto Eco, The book of Legendary Lands
Erich Auerbach, Dante: Poet of Secular World
Michael Wood, The Road to Delphi
John Armstrong, Book on Beauty

0:00 Do we still need bookshops?
2:08 Book I: A history of genius
4:10 Book II: The Book of Legendary Lands
5:35 Book III: Dante's Genius
7:10 Book IV: Poets, Prophets and Seers
8:00 Book V: Philosophy of beauty

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