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David Mirvish Books to close

It’s the circle of life. Last week – the same week that saw what Pages Books & Magazines proprietor Marc Glassman refers to as a six-month “stay of execution” on the store’s lease – The Globe and Mail reported that another longtime Toronto independent, David Mirvish Books, would be shutting its doors for good at the end of February.

Eleanor Johnston, manager of the store for more than 25 years, said there was no one reason for the Feb. 28 closing. “David [Mirvish] just felt that it was time, that the retail world has indeed changed a lot…. [But] it’s not really a question of us not being able to weather those shifting sands, to mix metaphors. I think we just decided, ‘It’s enough; it’s time.’”

Although the demise of the much-loved Markham Street bookstore is unfortunate, Toronto book-lovers can at least comfort themselves with the news of Pages’ lease extension, and the imminent arrival of the Roxanne Reads New & Used Bookstore in Riverdale, and the long-awaited Toronto outlet of the prairie-based mini-chain McNally Robinson Books.

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