"It’s a rainy Saturday morning, and customers idly browse the stacks at Cheever Books, one of San Antonio’s last remaining independent bookstores. Occupying a well-kept, whitewashed storefront on Broadway near the Witte Museum, Cheever Books is the hometown bookstore’s Platonic ideal. Its stacks reach the high, old-fashioned ceilings, and have been organized for maximum visual old-school appeal, as opposed to the merch-heavy endcaps of the big-chain box stores. "

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