It's 10：30pm and getting late．But the Beijing Sanlian Taofen Bookstore is still shining brightly．Hundreds of people are staying inside for one thing：to read!
Earlier this month，the Sanlian Taofen Bookstore started a trial（试运行） to run 24hours a day．If everything goes well，it will become the first 24-hour bookstore in Beijing．
"We welcome everyone who loves to read books at any time，"Zhang Zuozhen，the general manager of the store told China Youth Daily．
Although many people can now buy their favorite books online，the experience of immersion（沉浸） in physical books still attracts readers．
"There is no other choice to replace the touch of different qualities of paper and the smell of print，"Qian Xiaohua，the founder of Librairie Avant-Garde（先锋书店） in Nanjing told Xinhua．
It's true．A great bookstore can encourage people to read in many ways．
Some attract readers with their huge stock（库存） of literature．Foyles in the UK was once listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's largest bookshop in terms of shelf area （50km）．You can find books with 56subjects from fiction（小说） to law and philosophy at its flagship store（旗舰店）．Foyles also offers coffee and desserts to readers．
Other bookstores make themselves a cultural hub by holding lots of reading-related activities．Eslite Bookstore（诚品书店），a well-known 24-hour bookstore in Taiwan provides activities including talks with famous writers as well as holding exhibitions．Their topics range from literature and arts to opera and the environment．At Eslite，people not only read but also socialize（社交） and care about broader issues．
In many countries，secondhand bookstores have made reading more available to everyone．Strand Bookstore in the US sells used books for﹩2-3（12-18yuan）each．Ithelpstokeepoldbooksbeingreadandmakereadingcheaper．Sometimesyoucanfindveryold，rare（罕见的）orsimplyout-of-printbooksatStrand，forexample，aShakespearebookthatwaspublish