Oh I know, but it's the meme. Place in public imagination counts for a lot. Never got the chance to work at a bookstore, indie or otherwise, they were all obliterated by the time I was looking for work, but I did apply for an actual, honest-to-god porn shop once, before THOSE were all obliterated, out of morbid curiosity, and the craziest thing by far wasn't the porn, it was the customers that would come in looking for...other things, those super-dangerous "legal" smokables, that kind of shit. Didn't even take the job, this was just during the interview!
Also god, I do not miss those Magic Eye books. Fucked you up something terrible. I once got a book that was a Choose-your-own-adventure WITH magic eye pictures. Printed in black and white on really shitty paperback stock. So you'd have to look at a picture for each choice and then choose based on what you thought you saw. Sheer sadism.