Shoppers browse books in multiple languages at an outdoor stall in New Delhi. (Raveendran / AFP/Getty Images)
A man window shops at Librairie Paul Vulin in the Passage Jouffroy arcade in Paris. (Christine Vaufrey / Flickr)
Shoppers perusing a pile of books at the Irrawaddy Literary Festival in Yangon, Myanmar’s first international literary festival. (Soe Than Win / AFP/Getty Images)
Buddhist nuns look at books on display in the China pavilion at the Taipei International Book Exhibition in Taiwan. (David Chang / EPA)
A woman broswes at Grupo Sanborns SAB in Mexico City. (Susana Gonzalez / Bloomberg)
One of the many bookshops of the College Street old book market in Calcutta, India. (Piyal Adhikary / EPA)
A Hindu devotee reviews Hindu books at the Kumbh Mela religious festival in Allahabad, India. (Sanjay Kanojia / AFP/Getty Images)
Vice President Joe Biden shops in the children’s book section at Costco in Washington, D.C. (Susan Walsh / Associated Press )
Christmas shopping in a bookstore in Bratislava, Slovakia. (Godro Kmet / Flickr)
The Ler Devagar (meaning “slow reading”) bookshop in Lisbon. (Pedro Ribeiro Simoes / Flickr)
Dogs are allowed at the independent Laguna Beach Books in Laguna Beach, Calif. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
