Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators." That's the Stephen Fry quote printed on a piece of paper that greets you when, ironically, you walk up a staircase at Trilogy. It's an apt statement, going by the steady stream of patrons flowing in and out of the recently relocated bookstore and library. The place used to exist in a Lower Parel mill for five years. But then the landlord and the BMC got into a conflict. So the owners, Meethil Momaya and Ahalya Naidu, made a timely exit this April, fearing that the authorities would seal their treasure trove of titles behind locked doors.

A one-sentence conversation between Momaya and his mother then led to Trilogy shifting to its present Bandra location. It went something like this. Momaya: "Mum, can we use your garments workshop that you have kept shuttered for a year as the space for our library?" Mum: "Yep, sure you can." It was as easy as that. But the process of shifting all the books and furniture from the earlier spot was a lot more tedious. Renovating the ramshackle garments workshop was quite a task as well. Momaya and Naidu have retained the essence of the previous avatar in the sense that the walls are a similar yellow shade, and even the wooden floorboards were ripped off from the Lower Parel space to be re-laid in the new Bandra location. The shelves are the same ones as before. Their distributors haven't changed either. So, what exactly is different about the bookstore now that it's opened up in a cosy nook in the tony suburb, a hop, skip and jump away from Jogger's Park on Carter Road?