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The main attraction of a bookshop is that it can provide people with an opportunity to escape the realities of everyday life. A bookshop is very much like a music shop. You can wander around such places to your heart’s content. It is a good shop; no assistant will approach you with the evitable greeting, "Can I help you?" You needn’t buy anything you don’t want. In a bookshop an assistant should remaining the background until you have finished browsing. Then, and only then, are his services necessary.
    Once a medical student needed a text-book which was far too expensive for him to buy. He couldn’t obtain it from the library and the only copy he could find was in a certain bookshop. Every afternoon, therefore, he would go along to the shop and read a little of the book at a time. One day, however, he was disappointed to find the book missing from its usual place. He was about to leave, when he noticed the owner of the shop beckoning to him. Expecting to be told off, he went towards him. To his surprise, the owner pointed to the book which was tucked away in a corner. "I put it there in case anyone was tempted to buy it!" He said, and left the delighted student to continue his reading.