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It Was Huge!

Discussion in 'Chit Chat' started by Ty, Dec 23, 2007.

  1. Ty

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    The bookshop, that is :wink:

    Oxford's Blackwells has a basement level called the norrington room which i wandered for about an hour today, it was so big >.>
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    The Norrington Room

    Theres even a section for the iPhone!
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    So yeah, thats what ive been doing today. But the one thing i was very disappointed about was through the whole of the norrington room, i only saw a tiny shelf dedicated to gender identity (about as big as the iphone one above, but with more books shoved in) I wanted to have a look but i was a bit too nervous hehe.

    Heres a few facts about it anyhoo -

    opened its doors at 50 Broad Street on 1 January 1879 in a tiny room 12 feet square.
    is now Oxford's biggest bookshop, with more than 200,000 titles in stock covering every subject, discipline and interest.
    includes the Norrington Room, a vast subterranean terraced chamber of over 10,000 square feet housing 160,000 volumes on over three miles of shelving. The room is under Trinity College and was opened in 1966. It gained a place in the Guinness Book of Records for having the largest display of books for sale in one room anywhere in the world.
    specialise in supply to Oxford University and to institutions and places of learning throughout the region.
    welcome you to browse at your leisure. Unless you ask for help, the staff will not disturb you - a tradition at Blackwell's for over a century.

    And before you ask, I don't work for blackwells, I was just soo impressed by the size of it!

    /Ty
     
  2. InaRut

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    Lol of course he finds the iphone section.
    But wow that sounds so cool!

    But strange how there isn't any of sexual orientation..It is an older building...
     
  3. Tom

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    wow that is big, the only book store near me is mabe 144 square foot
     
  4. beckyg

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    There is a store like that in Portland called Powell's Books. They are very supportive of the gay community.
     
  5. Ty

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    Ofcourse :wink: Would you expect any less of moi?

    And I was so annoyed, I saw a book titled "A gay history of britian" that i wanted to flick through, but you can feel the book keepers staring at you :S its eerily quiet
     
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    i live in one of the big cities in north carolina and we have some ridiculously huge barnes and nobles. all of them have only one little section dedicated to gay and lesbian, but about three dedicated to sexuality (sexual postiions, etc)
     
  7. Ty

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    Maybe I didn't look around much, there are three floors each the same size as the last (sizes are displayed above)

    Hmmm but i looked on the signs and the norrington room should have had all books dedicated on sexuality -.-
     
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    IT WAS THIS BIG!

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    What was that big again???:grin:

    Well, maybe the book keeper has disease...called homophobia:rolleyes:
    There are no big book stores like that around me...maybe in Tokyo...but Japanese don't read much books compare to other country's people..so possibly there are none in Japan.:eek:
     
  10. Ty

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    I found a whole section dedicated to japanese liturature and poetry, Kimi =]