Although I want money and have no land, the whole environment has always been unfriendly to bookstores, and I can constantly see the news that "XX Bookstore has closed down", but this does not prevent me from continuing my dream of "opening a bookstore".
How painful it is to be beaten by reality, how sweet the dream is.
In order to satisfy my craving, I looked through the books I read last year, "Pulling out the Radish and Bringing Out the Mud", and found two treasure documentaries-fans and video poems of bookstores.
Fans is a documentary broadcast by CCTV 20 17. Yes, but there are books, only four episodes, each with a theme.
"But there are books" interviewed editors, second-hand booksellers, picture book painters, book designers and people who read books (such as Bili Bili Upmaster), while "Book Fan" tells the story about books from another angle, with a deeper narrative.
The first episode is also about book designers. However, some books start with design inspiration and artistic presentation skills, while book fans start with the book itself, telling the story of Zhu Yingchun, a master book designer, and "A Beautiful Pond Without Cutting".
The Bug next to him made him try a lot of interesting things for the first time. "No cut" makes his design stand on the wave of public opinion; Ru Ping Meitang brought him back to the book itself, and everything was dominated by the author's ideas.
The second episode is about several different bookstores.
Mary, owner of Wheat Field Bookstore, Qian Xiaohua, owner of independent bookstore benchmark pioneer bookstore, and Jiang Xun, owner of Xie Jie Yangmeizhu Model Bookstore. Their business philosophy and expectations of bookstores are different.
The wheat field bookstore in Kunming contains music and books. Ma Li, the boss, has his own band. It has been established for many years, but the horsepower has been there. He sells books, everything related to music and dreams.
Pioneer bookstore and Nanjing are probably what every independent bookstore operator wants to achieve most. They have enthusiasm and ideas, and even dare to open the bookstore to Bishan (Ma Boyong also made a meeting with Daming's readers there under a microscope, and jealousy made me unhappy). Every pioneer bookstore has a different look, which is also an ideal look for people who want to open a bookstore.
The model bookstore located in Yangmeizhu, Xie Jie, deals in second-hand books and also makes woodblock printing products, which is another way for the bookstore to survive.
The third episode focuses on book fans (the third episode, the focus! ), Shi Hang in a hat, Xu Fengwen who is unhappy without spending some money, and Chen Yihua who likes to go to Jiufen Laibo Library.
They love not only reading, but also buying books.
This is probably a common problem for all people who like books. Someone will always ask, "Have you counted how many books you have? Have you read all these books? " In the past, I always answered very seriously, and even really used the APP to record how many books I had.
But now, I can answer with a sentence from Shi Hang: "I haven't counted the stars above me, and I can't see them all."
I thought I could give up the idea of opening a bookstore after watching the second episode (small bookstores really can't make money and can't support themselves). After watching the third episode, I could convince myself that "it's good to be an honest book buyer", but in the fourth episode, I was beaten back to my original shape.
The fourth episode is called The Vendor's Secretary. Listen to this name, full of street life! Heartbeat! Heartbeat!
The protagonist selling the secretary is essentially similar to the second episode, but the seller is mainly a second-hand bookseller.
It is not entirely true that they are "businessmen".
Three stores, Buyi Bookstore, Mephisto fellers Bookstore and Qingjian Society.
A seller of second-hand books, carrying one sack after another in the second-hand book market, one warehouse after another, an ordinary second-hand bookseller, developed from a person to a team in 16 (now 18), moved from the second ring road to the fifth ring road, visited their Weibo, and now has their own bookstore.
Lu Yi, who lives in Shanghai, bargains with his boss when collecting used books. He opened his own bookstore on the second floor. As soon as he entered, it was like a private study, and he was very comfortable with guests. I really found this bookstore on the internet and saw the same tablecloth! The interesting thing about second-hand books is that there will be traces of another person on them.
For example, he once received a book saying that "Cousin Amy wants to be a proletarian intellectual", but it was later turned out by a client and happened to know this "Cousin Amy" because he attended her funeral.
A person came to Quzhou from Anhui and never learned to earn the first pot of gold by second-hand books. From then on, he began to learn some knowledge about ancient books. The shop is full of old bookshelves, and the gift for his daughter is also a set of ancient books.
I even bought Fan Siping's translation of The Old Man and the Sea.
The charm of old books lies in all the unknown surprises it brings.
Sometimes it is not the content itself, but more from its former owner and some traces left by history.
If "But There are Books" and "Fans" tell books from different angles, then "Poetry in the Bookstore" in Taiwan Province Province is simply telling the story of the bookstore.
It's short and colorful.
I never thought there would be so many forms in bookstores.
Some open in rural areas, some open in urban areas, some open to special people, and some open because of their ideal life …
Each clip is very short, basically within 3-5 minutes. Sometimes it's an interview, sometimes it's a quiet shot, and there's a shot directly at the bookstore door, from morning till night, only taking pictures of people coming and going.
Probably the unique atmosphere of Taiwan Province Province. No matter how well each bookstore is run, the owner's mentality is very peaceful and casual. Every independent bookstore is a small world with an interesting story hidden inside.
I especially like the video poems in the bookstore.
The title separates "shadow" from "poem".
The shadows in the bookstore are like poems.
Full of poetry and joy.
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I wrote some words here just to express my love for books. In the era of electronic information explosion, from official WeChat accounts to short videos, people get information faster and faster. It takes only 3 seconds to find the content they like. Big data will "tailor" some content for you and push it according to your daily choices.
The way of making profits has become simple and fast, but the world has begun to become more and more boring.
Whether it is the art of binding, the pleasure of reading, or the surprise of old books.
Only books can give us a rest.
In addition, the three documentaries mentioned in this article have been watched in Mile Mile.