96 PUNCHMAGAZINE.COM land—is a documentary film titled Reimagining Independent Bookstores. “All the documentaries that I have seen about bookstores have been looking backwards. They are seeing bookstores from the lens of nostalgia … I wanted to turn that around and say, ‘What does a future bookstore look like?’" Ferose explains. Naturally, Kepler’s was his first filming location. If anything competes with Ferose’s love of books, it's signed books. As a serious collector—with signatures from Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi and the last 11 presidents—many of Ferose’s 3,000 autographed copies come from his favorite Menlo Park bookstore. “My wife is not amused that I'm using all the wardrobes to keep books,” he chuckles. PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF: KEPLER'S BOOKS
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