Bibliodiversity and bookcrawls

Bibliodiversity is like biodiversity, but for books. That there needs to be variety. Of books, of publishers, of people. The other weekend I was away visiting friends and went on a bookcrawl. We didn't even cover all the bookshops in the city. We went to an independent bookshop, a poetry bookshop (bookcase), a charity bookshop, and a queer bookshop. It was really fun! We chatted to the staff, even traded recommendations with other customers. They all had signs about groups that met there, community events, some had self-published and local author sections, sold merch and badges and posters. And we barely even scratched the surface. There was a zine library we walked past but it didn't open until later in the day. There's a scifi bookshop in the city centre, another that specialises in self-publishing, several more independent bookshops, and a women's library. As well as a big Waterstones. In my city... the bookcrawl would be significantly shorter. There are, as far as I know, at least…

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