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I was recently thinking about a digital experience that can mirror the experience of walking into an old bookstore (think, City Lights or Strand) or a second-hand book store, and came up empty.

Walking into a room guaranteed to be filled with treasures, joys and learnings, what digital experience can mirror that?

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The closest way I suspect that the equivalent would unfortunately require all books to be fully loaded for free as a prerequisite essentially as to get the experience the data must be there. Even then such a VR bookstore while overkill and somewht immersive it would still be distinguishable.

Really it is like life of an individual person I suppose. There will be many more like them, tbose that echo them but an exact duplicate reoccuring is impossible because the world changes around them. It won't lack for similar treasures, joys, and learning but it won't be the same.

Yeah, that's something I was discussing with a friend too. Would be great to be able to shop fresh food online in a way that's more similar to how we do it in a physical store.

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