You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The maps below show a bookstore in 2000 and now. Summaries the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. You should write at least 150 words.

You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.

The maps below show a bookstore in 2000 and now. Summaries the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

You should write at least 150 words.
The provided maps depict the layout changes of a
bookstore
in 2000 and now.
Overall
, the main difference is the added cafe inside the
bookstore
.
While
the left
side
of the place remained the same, various genres of
books
were moved to a new location.
Furthermore
, the amount of fiction
books
decreased significantly.
According to
the map, in 2000 fiction
books
used to take up the most space, having shelves all across the left
side
of the wall, when entering the
bookstore
. The service desk was on the right
side
, followed by a shelf full of non-fiction reading material. Travel and new literature
was
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located right next to the entrance, just before three smaller shelves for art, hobbies and cookery
books
.
However
, since a cafe with three tables was added, the smaller shelves, which used to contain art, hobbies and cookery literature had to be taken out. They are now stored on the left
side
of the store and take up more space. Because fiction
books
were reduced in quantity, non-fiction literature is now located on a bigger shelf in the furthest area of the
bookstore
. The entrance, the service desk and the travel and new reading materials are the only things that stayed in the same place throughout the years.
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