Another great used bookstore is shuttering in Seattle (though they're going online).
From an article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer...
"I love talking to people about books and getting them a book they didn't know about," he said. "I love the interaction."
Watkins will miss that most of all.
Nevertheless, he's turning the page in his store's history. The shop, located at the corner of Northeast 45th Street and University Way Northeast since 1997, is moving entirely online at the end of March.
"I won't have the personal contact," he said.
But there's always his blog, he adds. And relocating the store's operations to Vashon Island will allow him to be close to his aging parents.
Right now, he lives just a few blocks from his store's prominent location at one of the neighborhood's busiest corners.
Twice Sold Tales can thank that corner, a major intersection with high volumes of foot traffic from the nearby University of Washington, for its impending move. JPMorgan Chase has its eye on the property since a nearby branch at Brooklyn Avenue Northeast and Northeast 43rd Street will be dislocated by a Sound Transit light rail station in a few years.
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