Saturday, March 17
• Those who predict the end of the printed book had better think again. Because when Ken Gloss, owner of the Brattle Book Shop, one of the last independent used bookstores in Boston, came to North Conway to give a recent talk (and offer appraisals), he had to muscle his way through a standing-room-only crowd to get to the multipurpose room of the Weather Discovery Center. And every member of that crowd was holding a book.
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