Tattered Cover is a bookstore in Denver, Colorado. A real, brick-and-mortar (or possibly reinforced concrete and drywall) store selling physical books made of paper and cloth. It isn’t part of some huge corporate conglomerate, with ties into publishing companies and multimedia giants, but an independent bookstore.
How independent? Tattered Cover fought against provisions of the Patriot Act that allowed for seizure of book purchase records without a warrant or hearing. Prior to that, Tattered Cover had defended First Amendment rights (http://www.dbadocket.org/ethics/tatteredcover/) in challenges by Colorado law enforcement groups seeking to broadly define obscenity, or to tie book purchases to illegal drug operations.
Eat. Sleep. Read. It must work, as this shelf is supposed to be devoted to overstock, but it is clearly empty.
Tattered Cover’s commitment to the tried and true values of democracy and physical books also extends to plumbing:
Tattered Cover has some brand-new plumbing that has an old-fashioned look.
You just don’t see plumbing like this in men’s rooms any more. The plumbing is new; where did they even find it?
