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By Molly Malsom\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 13 October 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Spot a second-hand bookshop, ready to be explored, and your heart skips a beat? Do you enjoy inhaling the musty aroma of old books and spend hours rifling through dusty shelves, seeking out the prettiest covers and the most intriguing volumes?<\/span><\/p>\n

When the internet was in its infancy, some bibliophiles feared that the digital world would herald the end of the road for printed books. Indeed, sales of new books have steadily declined over the last few decades, but the turbulent events of the past year have given an unexpected boost to traditional books.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, sales of vintage books<\/a> have never been stronger. The internet has allowed a new breed of savvy online dealers<\/a> to emerge, supplying beautiful second-hand books to a global customer base. With lockdowns, shop closures and cancelled antiques events, more book addicts than ever are heading online to get their fix.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ami Baker, founder of Country House Library (countryhouselibrary.co.uk), a firm that supplies vintage books to National Trust holiday cottages, and often works with high-end interior designers to furnish entire libraries for wealthy foreign property investors, says that sales have increased \u2018five fold\u2019 over the past year. <\/span><\/p>\n
Diane Newland, manager of Books By The Yard<\/a> at Bookbarn International (a company that has sourced old books for hotels, restaurants, the BBC and Young Vic Theatre) has noticed a similar trend. \u2018We were seeing an increase in sales before the pandemic \u2013 from TV and set decorators, interior designers and private individuals \u2013 but last spring, when the first lockdown happened, we saw a sudden upsurge in smaller, more bespoke orders,\u2019 she reveals. \u2018People wanted to surround themselves with books, often to furnish their home offices for Zoom calls, but sometimes just because they suddenly had all this time at home and there was a fantastic resurgence of reading.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n
When working from home became the new normal and people found themselves spending hours each week participating in online meetings, many became aware that their uninspiring domestic backdrops (think: laundry in the spare bedroom) weren\u2019t projecting a particularly professional image to colleagues or clients. Tired of artificial automated backgrounds, a growing number of people decided to \u2018decorate\u2019 their home working spaces with vintage books.<\/span><\/p>\n
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