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Abids: A carnival of books
Every Sunday Abids looks like a carnival, books skirting the closed stores and not just limiting to a few genres. These unending stacks of books which stretch along a few kilometers, just like treasure, cannot claim what is in store for their unsuspecting readers.
Every Sunday Abids looks like a carnival, books skirting the closed stores and not just limiting to a few genres. These unending stacks of books which stretch along a few kilometers, just like treasure, cannot claim what is in store for their unsuspecting readers.
Although, the sellers of prior owned books cannot compete with the upcoming eBooks and online shopping with their enticing discounts one has to agree that the tradition of buying old books creates an experience of pleasure. A thorough rummage through the huge piles for books that even our grandparents have never heard of, for inscriptions from another generation, for rotting yellow pages, for the pure satisfaction of buying books for just 5 rupees is what one goes to Abids for. In comparison, buying books online has made it a mechanical process of navigating through pages and clicking away to add books to the cart. Despite the concept of convenience, it is surprising to see how people still make time to go down to buy books only after touching and smelling them. Yes, how many of us have bought books without first smelling them and basking in the strange fragrance of dusty old copies?
Every year this place gains more loyal customers who choose to buy a share of their books from flea markets. Abids has brought back nostalgic readers to their old reading habits with every book they read as a child lay forgotten under the numerous piles and exposing books that are no longer in publishing. 
