Good habits start young — and affordably — at any of our city's neighborhood library branches; one of our favorites is the gigantic Conrad Sulzer Regional Library, with plenty of sunny
nooks, a welcoming children's
section and even a spot for your
kid to (ahem) school you at chess.
From my experience, to have the most successful bookstore at this point in time would be having a larger
kids section, self lookup kiosks, no cafe (or at least a cafe that runs on its own payroll), and a much smaller retail space with only the best selling of each category in store with the option of having a book shipped FREE if it's not in store, and not having such a huge digital presence (
nook).