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title: "I want bookstores that operate this way.   Except that I'd structure…"
date: 2017-08-17
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# I want bookstores that operate this way.   Except that I'd structure…

*August 17, 2017 · Facebook*

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I want bookstores that operate this way. Except that I\'d structure the payments as 1/2 day, full day, and monthly unlimited passes. Via @\[100058087000578:2048:Virginia Postrel\]\
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\"Ah, but there is at least one café that recognises that customers truly value the time spend in their establishment. Its a small chain in the United Kingdom called Ziferblat Café (ziferblat being the Russian word for "wall clock"). Here, you sign in when you enter and pay six pence per minute for the time you spend there --- and the coffee is free! Sure, you're not going to get a tall, half-sweet caramel macchiato (or whatever your favorite drink is), but you are going to get a place to call your own for however long you want to stay, with books, magazines and newspapers, free internet and some rather sociable people to chat with, if you so choose.\"\
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