Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
To honor National Book Lover’s Day (August 9), “CBS Sunday Morning” pulls some stories off the shelf about treasured bookstores, and the bibliophiles who love them. Featuring:
00:00 A visit to Powell’s, the nation's largest independent bookstore, in Portland, Ore. (1999)
7:06 Ann Patchett: Writer, and purveyor, of books (2017)
14:43 Grolier, in Cambridge, Mass., a bookshop devoted to poetry (1983)
22:44 Hay-on-Wye, the Welsh booktown that is a reader’s, and author’s, paradise; featuring Martin Cruz Smith, P.D. James and Doris Lessing (1996)
30:58 Dickman's, one of the largest booksellers in the country, housed in the middle of Iowa farmland (2008)
37:24 A new chapter for the Book Thing, a charity “bookstore” in Baltimore (2017)
39:59 The Massachusetts town of Stoughton pickets a store selling adult books (1983)
50:35 How independent bookstores (like New York City’s Strand, and EyeSeeMe, an African-American children’s bookstore in St. Louis) found ways to cope during the COVID pandemic (2020)
55:43 Hobart, a tiny town in upstate New York, where bookstores rule (2024)
1:00:22 A moving bookstore finds helping hands -- hundreds of them (2025)
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To honor National Book Lover’s Day (August 9), “CBS Sunday Morning” pulls some stories off the shelf about treasured bookstores, and the bibliophiles who love them. Featuring:
00:00 A visit to Powell’s, the nation's largest independent bookstore, in Portland, Ore. (1999)
7:06 Ann Patchett: Writer, and purveyor, of books (2017)
14:43 Grolier, in Cambridge, Mass., a bookshop devoted to poetry (1983)
22:44 Hay-on-Wye, the Welsh booktown that is a reader’s, and author’s, paradise; featuring Martin Cruz Smith, P.D. James and Doris Lessing (1996)
30:58 Dickman's, one of the largest booksellers in the country, housed in the middle of Iowa farmland (2008)
37:24 A new chapter for the Book Thing, a charity “bookstore” in Baltimore (2017)
39:59 The Massachusetts town of Stoughton pickets a store selling adult books (1983)
50:35 How independent bookstores (like New York City’s Strand, and EyeSeeMe, an African-American children’s bookstore in St. Louis) found ways to cope during the COVID pandemic (2020)
55:43 Hobart, a tiny town in upstate New York, where bookstores rule (2024)
1:00:22 A moving bookstore finds helping hands -- hundreds of them (2025)
"CBS Sunday Morning" features stories on the arts, music, nature, entertainment, sports, history, science and Americana, and highlights unique human accomplishments and achievements. Check local listings for CBS Sunday Morning broadcast times.
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