“Nothing matches the feel and the smell of a book. There’s something special about holding it in your hand and knowing that that’s the same story every time, and you can rely on that story to be with you.” That’s not some old-timer or a luddite lamenting the rise of the gadget. That’s a 23 year-old who’s apparently representative of a lot of digital natives, because, as NPR reports, bookstores are hanging in. (I love reading words on a real printed page. If only you could increase the font size…)

+ MentalFloss: Seven bookstores too beautiful for words.