"People be like 'I needed this' and it's literally just 3 hours of unlimited reading time. Come and get'em." That was the sidewalk chalkboard message in front of Anthology for Books, Geneseo, Ill., which noted: "We don't sell time, but we DO sell the books you'll want to be reading when the time comes! And if you just want to come in and talk about how there are so many books and so little time, we're here for that, too."

