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Book mark this book man – By Adilah Ismail   Deen the Book Man at the Good Market For this week’s ‘Notes on Resilience’, we speak to Hafleen Dawood, a secondhand and rare book seller based in Wellawatte, better known as Deen the Book Man. In-between receiving customers at his Saturday stall at the Good Market, he paused to speak about how the pandemic affected book sales and how he adjusted to meet reader requirements. Hafleen runs a secondhand bookshop which specializes in hard-to-find books, a stall at the Good Market, a book delivery service and lending library. His website (https://www.deenthebookman.lk/) announces its slogan as “You name it, I find it!” “Do you know how when someone goes on to the computer and types a word and it automatically suggests other words? If someone says one or two words of a book title, the full name of the book title ...