Although it was the weekend, because of the rain, there were only two people in it, the boss and the little boy. In a small facade, the surrounding walls are covered with bookshelves, and the bookshelves are full of books: Grass House, Red Tile and Verne's science fiction, as well as adolescent novels, martial arts novels and many comic book novels.
Near the west bookshelf, there are two desks and a computer. The boss is wearing a pair of glasses, about 50 years old, and his hair is gray. He looked at the magazine in his hand and asked the little boy to read the books on the shelf The little boy stood on the stool and finally found a satisfactory book on the shelf, scanned it for the boss to register on the computer. Then the boss looked down at the magazine in his hand, and the little boy sat on the stool next to him and looked carefully. The two of them lost themselves in the world of books and ignored my existence.
The business of borrowing books used to be very hot. There are 1 or 2 on every street, and flowers are everywhere around the middle school. In our time, the romance novels of Aunt Qiong Yao and the martial arts novels of Jin Yong and Gu Long were very popular among students. Bookstores not only operate these best-selling novels, but also enter some unpopular novels such as masterpieces. Every student is a loyal customer of the bookstore, and renting extracurricular books from the bookstore opens another door to knowledge for students.
At that time, the lease procedures were registered in a book, one for each secretary. Each book has a 20 yuan deposit of 20 cents a day. There is a blank sheet of paper on the book, remember the borrowing date. When returning books, each book needs to look through the notebook, which is very cumbersome.
Later, with the progress of the times, computers were introduced for registration and scanning. Merchants have added magnetism to every book, and the door is managed by magnetic cards to prevent people from stealing books, and the workload of the boss has also been reduced a lot.
The content of the bookstore gradually increased from simple books to VCD discs, and later DVD discs, as well as fashion magazines and various picture books. The rented bookstore was also renamed as a literary reading club.
Later, with the popularity of the Internet and mobile phones, novel websites became popular, and video software such as Youku and iQiyi rose. People no longer need to rent and watch CDs and books, and the business of bookstores is gradually slowing down and cannot be maintained.
When this book club was held, I had a reading card and rented a decoration magazine. Later, due to more and more channels to watch TV and read novels, I don't know when I lost my reading card. I haven't been to this book club for many years, and I thought it had closed down long ago. Today, I suddenly found that I can't help feeling that other book rental houses have disappeared for more than ten years. The once hot book rental industry has only one support. I don't know how much longer I can hold on.
In recent years, the development of new media has made mobile phone reading a normal state, and I can't avoid it when it permeates all ages, but I always think that this kind of online reading, no matter how popular, can't bring readers all the pleasure of paper books. Scholarly and scholarly, e-books will only give off the smell of chemicals such as plastic and bakelite, and it is impossible to be a so-called scholarly woman, so deep down, I don't want to rent a bookstore and leave our lives.
The rise of network mobile phones has also made movies in a downturn for a long time, but now, movies have ushered in its spring.
Bookstore rental, an industry that records the memory of the post-70s and post-80s generations, will be completely eliminated by the times and disappear. Or can you make a comeback like the film industry and find your own spring?