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The China\/HK based one sell lots of simplied chinese books, and some first shipment of new HK books.  I won&#8217;t mind reading simplied chinese, but the paper quality of those books really bothers me.  It feel like they are printed on tiolet paper.  I had finished reading quite a few books standing right there, but rarely I make a purchase with them.  If I can wait, I can always get it cheaper by ordering over the internet.  No wonder both of them had to close the doors.  I will feel something is missing when I go to T&#038;T for a long while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I went to T&#038;T in Metrotown for glocery shopping today, I found out that the chinese bookstores next to the supermarket is closed. There used to be two chinese bookstores next to T&#038;T, one is Taiwan based, and the other one is China\/Hong Kong based. 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