Criteria:
1. The number of books must vastly outnumber the quantity of people in the store at any time.
Books make me feel safe, and it's nice to be surrounded people of likemind.
In smaller stores, people aren't really advid readers.
Like Coles.
Those people who shop there read occasionally.
But people who go to Chapters, they read constantly.
2. Chairs, benches, comfy rugs etc..
I have to be able to read in the store.
In Chapters, the staff will not bug you if you plop right down in front of a bookshelf and read.
3. The selection of books much vary age-wise.
I don't want all the new popular books and hot-off-the-press bestsellers.
If your bookstore doesn't have almost every single novel by James Patterson or Robert Ludlum, it's a failure.
4. Excellent staff.
Staff who won't kick you out if you happen to doze off whilst reading after a particularly exhausting day at school or work.
Namely, Chapters.
Every other bookstore for me fails in comarison to thise wonderful haven.
Well, then there are those quaint little bookshops that are sandwiched in between a music store and a another low-traffic store in downtown.
Those are perfectly acceptable, but the staff most likely will kick you out.
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1. The number of books must vastly outnumber the quantity of people in the store at any time.
Books make me feel safe, and it's nice to be surrounded people of likemind.
In smaller stores, people aren't really advid readers.
Like Coles.
Those people who shop there read occasionally.
But people who go to Chapters, they read constantly.
2. Chairs, benches, comfy rugs etc..
I have to be able to read in the store.
In Chapters, the staff will not bug you if you plop right down in front of a bookshelf and read.
3. The selection of books much vary age-wise.
I don't want all the new popular books and hot-off-the-press bestsellers.
If your bookstore doesn't have almost every single novel by James Patterson or Robert Ludlum, it's a failure.
4. Excellent staff.
Staff who won't kick you out if you happen to doze off whilst reading after a particularly exhausting day at school or work.
Namely, Chapters.
Every other bookstore for me fails in comarison to thise wonderful haven.
Well, then there are those quaint little bookshops that are sandwiched in between a music store and a another low-traffic store in downtown.
Those are perfectly acceptable, but the staff most likely will kick you out.
=3
