In the age of the internet, with magazines and newspapers in circulation freefall and the bestsellers lists dominated by the book with the biggest marketing budget behind it, the future of print is in doubt.
What is clear is that print needs to play to its strengths. Books are objects - often beautiful, tactile ones - in a way which a website (or Kindle) can never be.
And this is why we love places like Daniel Crouch Rare Books - a specialist dealer in antique atlases, plans and charts dating form the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.
A must visit for collectors, and even for the merely curious.