Ironically a book that talks how the technology (specially kindle and audiobooks) is effecting local bookstores, I've read as an e-book.

I'm guilty as charged.

Author Shaun Bythell is the bookseller of Scotland who own the biggest bookstore of the country and runs a bookclub as well, every point the narrator has stated will slap us all (who buys books online now - specially from Amazon) right in the face (My personal feeling).

Through The Diary of a Bookseller, the author has given us glimpse of how customers behave in bookstores, and how the bookstore staff and owner feel about certain questions asked by customers are very much heartwarming and also there were few chuckle out moments here and there - particularly the satires that the narrator makes on few customers' choices.

Being a Booklover, I myself saw/ and sometimes still see the dream of beginning a Bookshop, The Diary of a Bookseller has discussed all the ups and downs, particularly downs, a local second hand bookstore, with rare collectibles and signed editions, the demand they have in market, the profit they make after selling, literally everything.

I really liked how the author has narrated it all in a journal format, noting down the orders they recieved online on each day and how that day went in the bookstore is felt like a #that'sthedream moment to me.


Do I recommend this book?
Yes, people who love books that are about books will enjoy this quick, funny, and satirical biography/autobiography of a Bookseller.

PS:- if you have access and allowance, please do buy a paperback copy of this book when you want to read. I'll be buying it too, if not now, definitely later, in the far far future.