Hotels, a Place to Lay Your Head, or Bury It in a Book - nytimes.com

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Traditional brick-and-mortar bookstores have proved vulnerable to e-books and the web, but many new hotels aim to distinguish themselves with old-fashioned pages that guests can actually turn, housing libraries that range from historic collections to trendy ones. Of course, hotels like the Algonquin in New York, host to the “Round Table” of authors who met there in the 1920s, have long had links to literary figures.