If you’re curious what kind of person — in this day and age of online shopping, e-book reading, tablet watching and Amazon dominating that tend to render Gutenberg practically obsolete — would want to run an independent bookstore, a brick-and-mortar place that sells actual books printed on actual printing presses, well, let’s meet Anne Holman and Calvin Crosby.

Anne and Calvin are owners of The King’s English Bookshop, an east-side institution that has been in the same location — 1500 East and 1500 South — since its founding 48 years ago.

They’re not the original owners — Anne bought her share in 2014 and Calvin his in 2021 — which only reinforces the perception that these must be the kind of people who either like to run away from popular conventional trends, or at least ignore them.

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