It used to be that the store in a mall that interested me the most would always be the bookstore. Today there are malls that don't have bookstores at all!
When I visit London, England, I tend to spend a lot of time (and money) at the bookstores Foyle's and Watterstone's. When I was there a couple of months ago, I bought several Portuguese books because I'm interested in learning that language. One was a children's book about the history of Portugal. Another was of Charles Perrault's French fairy tales, told in Portuguese. (Children's books tend to have pretty easy language.)
You can find a lot of interesting books in university bookstores. At the University of Toronto bookstore I once obtained a huge Chinese dictionary!
A few years back I got a couple of puzzle magazines at Indigo Books. After I left the store, I realized I hadn't paid for them! I went right back in and did so, but I could have just gone home and got away with stealing. Yet there's enough injustice in the world without me adding to it.
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