U.S. tourist gets trapped in London bookstore

Short form: guy wanders into a sizable bookstore just before closing, goes upstairs to use their WiFi, doesn’t notice when they close and gets locked in for several hours.

I was reminded of “The Tattered Cover.” When I lived near Denver in the late 1990’s, there was a bookstore in downtown Denver right across the street from an upscale shopping mall that, IIRC, claimed to be the largest bookstore in the world (or perhaps the US, I forget). In any event, it was *big.* Loved that place, even though, oddly, only a small percentage of the store was devoted to science, engineering and sci-fi. Then I moved away in 2000.

A few years back I passed through Denver and decided to stop in and see the place. I was shocked to find that the site was now some other wholly unrelated business. Fortunately, I found that they had simply moved. So I found their new digs. Their new smaller digs. Their new much less impressive digs. Their new stomp-on-my-youthful-memories digs. Bah.

The original Tattered Cover was the sort of place a bookworm could get lost in. The new one… meh.