Cosy and convivial or grand and gigantic, there are plenty to choose fromJoy-bringing post on Flavorwire spotlighting the world's 20 most beautiful bookstores – shops "so beautiful they're worth getting out of the house (or the country) to visit, whether you need a new hardcover or not" – as chosen by their staffers. Some I'd seen pictures of before (Livraria Lello, in Porto, Portugal); some – Shakespeare and Co and the glorious Barter Books in Alnwick – I've even visited. But most were entirely new to me, and ever so easy on the eye. Of these, my favourites were VVG Something in Taipei (intimate, comfortable, pleasing levels of clutter) and, at the other end of the scale, the majestic Librería ...