Page-Turnable

A Kindle is great for travel. But there is no replacement for the smell and touch of a physical book. Turns out we aren't the only ones who feel that way.

This summer three purveyors of old school, page-turnable books set up shop in the High Country, all of them working to keep us in touch with the oldest way we have of holding a story.

The Golden Hollow Bookstore is a traveling secondhand shop Kayla and Megan Cook dreamed up while wandering into bookshops on a family vacation. The Littlest Gay Bookshop is five square feet of rainbow shelf inside Iron Orchid Tattoos. And Paige's Used Books is Rachael Lewis selling online and at pop ups out of West Jefferson, still hunting a physical space, after she posted about 40 surplus books from her own house and sold half of them inside a week.

The Cooks both work full time, so a storefront hasn't made sense yet. They run three pop up dates a month at three different places. August took them to Mystery Hill, the Moose Lodge, and the Drawing Room, with an online shelf on PangoBooks and Kayla's homemade cookies on the table.

Boone has the anchor. Huzzah Books keeps a storefront at 114 Clement St., and we share one of their picks here every week.

Find these shops. Buy their books. Read them and hand them to a friend, or set them on the coffee table. One day you'll pick it back up and be glad you still have it.