“I have no idea exactly how many books we have here now. We collect as many as we can and they [readers] buy as many as they wish. It’s an ongoing process. It has been like this since we started in 1979,” Sam, son and business partner of Charles Leakey, the founder of Leakey’s Bookshop, told me.
Leakey’s is the largest second-hand bookshop in the U.K.
I was talking to him in his modest office at the bookshop on Church Street, Inverness, Scotland. Talking to this young handsome man in his early thirties was as exhilarating as walking through the narrow passages between long lines of huge shelves stacked with old musty books and browsing them at liberty.
