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If you're a voracious reader who ploughs through several books each week, it doesn't take long before they pile up. That is a predicament PR consultant and entertainment business veteran Anders Nelsson found himself in earlier this year.

'I tend to read two or three books at a time - a trashy novel for when my mind is zonked out, and a historical novel,' he says. 'It seemed very wasteful to have so many books lying around, so I'd just pass them to friends and ask them to pass them on.'

But Nelsson found he couldn't give them away fast enough and began to look for other ways of disposing of books he no longer wanted. He found his solution in the Book Attic.

A second-hand bookshop specialising in English-language titles, the Book Attic occupies a first-floor space in Wan Chai, but it's nothing like the dusty jumble of many second-hand stores. The shop is a bright, neatly laid-out space that invites customers to browse, with a small reading area and complimentary tea for people with time for a more leisurely look.

'I don't enjoy going to messy bookshops,' says owner Jennifer Li Sui-wan. 'They're dusty, smelly and disorganised. I just want to get what I want and leave.

'I want my shop to be like an oasis, a place where people can relax their minds even if it's just for a few minutes. This is the environment I like to be in when I read a book.

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