Amanda Goyer stands next to the sign advertising the store she'll open in October.

SAND LAKE — Remember books? Those pages of words bound together? Amanda and Chris Goyer are opening a store that will be full of them. They’re calling this new business a… checks notes… “bookstore.”

Lake Bound Bookstore, to be specific, in Averill Park. And if you’re wondering whether the Goyers have gone plum crazy, well, that’s a question the husband-and-wife team gets often. Bookstores, after all, feel old school, kind of like, um, newspapers.

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Speaking of old school, I should mention that Lake Bound will also sell new vinyl records. You know, for record players. So, yeah, people tend to wonder if the Goyers' marbles are, if not quite lost, rolling down the street and headed for a gutter.

Amanda Goyer received a similar reaction when, two years ago, she opened the Sand Lake Merchant in a Route 43 space that had long been a general store. Who opens a small, bricks-and-mortar retail space in the Amazon age? How could such a thing expect to survive?

But the Sand Lake Merchant not only survived, it thrived as a business that, with Gipfel Coffee Co. as a tenant, is a community........

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