WHY attend a bookstore reading?

~ a question with many answers ~

"To see if the bookstore is still there, what with the recent attrition of bookstores, especially independents."		"I get a sense of the human being behind the written work at book readings, and this awareness enrichens all my future reading of that author."
—Tony Cohan	~ click on the question mark ~	—Solveig Eggerz