Welsh town is one big bookstore  Story Highlights: Hay-on-Wye is
the famed Welsh "city of books," where every other building
seems to sell tomes   By GARY A. WARNER / Register Travel Editor
In most cities, it is hard to find an independent bookstore. In
Hay-on-Wye, it's easier to pick out which shops don't sell
tomes.  The town of around 1,300 people just over the border in
Wales has some three dozen shops lined up and down its streets.
The old movie house is a bookstore. So is the roofless courtyard
of the local church. Everything can be found here, from
antiquarian gems worth thousands of British pounds to boxes of
World War II magazines sold by the kilo.  Article Tab: Hay-on-
Wye, Wales, with its many bookstores, is known as the Town of
Books.  I came unprepared my first time to Hay. I thought I
would stop for an hour or so on my way from the Cotswolds to
Northern Wales. Bad decision. Several hours later I left with my
arms groaning with old guidebooks and aviation encyclopedias,
while my wife toted a half