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...It’s a bit of a conundrum for friends,” Dean Hunt, Schoenhof??s Foreign Books employee and long-time language maestro, admits with a chuckle. Because, despite the fact that Hunt knows French, German, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Danish, Norwegian, Czech, Polish, Ukranian, Finnish and a smattering of Slavic languages, he hasn’t ventured off this continent in 18 years. “I hate flying,” he says, at home with the store’s obscure volumes and multilingual clientele. Hunt leans back decisively...
Unless dramatic technological changes render airplanes an anachronism, Hunt will stick to his armchair and Schoenhof??s. But if teleporting does come into vogue, you’ll find him in one of two places. “I’d have to choose two: Sweden and Greece. Automatically, automatically.” He snaps twice...
...know the competition is out there,” says Schoenhof??s Assistant Manager Hunt. “We know that students use the competition to buy their books. We have been hit here and there by the technology that has enabled customers to find books elsewhere...
Hunt says Schoenhof??s still has “a loyal clientele” that shop at the store regularly in part because of its qualified employees...
...says a student searching recently for the only grammar book on a certain language in India was “ecstatic” to find the book at Schoenhof??s. He says the store is unique because it carries such a large collection of books on specific topics...