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Londoners are great readers. They buy vast numbers of newspapers and magazines and even of books--especially paperbacks, which are still (36) cheap in spite of ever-increasing rises in the cost of printing. They still buy "proper" books, too, printed on good paper and (37) between hard covers.
There are many streets in London (38) shops which specialize in book-selling. (39) the best known of these is Charing Cross Road. Here books of all sorts and sizes are to be found, from the celebrated one which (40) of being "the biggest bookshop in the world" to the (41) , dusty little places which seem to have been left over from Dickens’ time. Some of these shops (42) , or will obtain, any kind of book, but many of them specialize in second-hand books, in art books, in foreign books, in books on (43) , politics or any other of the myriad subjects about which books may be written.
(44) , Chafing Cross Road is not the cheapest. For the really cheap second-hand volumes, the collector must venture off the beaten track, to Farringdon Road, in the East Central district of London. Here there is nothing so grandiose as bookshops. (45) on to small barrows which line the gutters. And the collectors, some professional and some amateur, pounce up on the dusty cascade. In places like this (46) .