Book lovers, would you climb a mountain just to get your hands on your favourite novel? This man seems to think so. Over the past three years, 57-year-old self-styled poet, Jiang Libo has spent 800,000 yuan (S$153,000) to build Millstone Bookstore, which houses a collection of 7,000 mostly literary books, reported the South China Morning Post. The two-storey bookstore is.
A man who spent US$116,000 building a bookstore in the shape of the number seven in a remote mountainous area says despite the book business being in decline, his store will buck the trend.