If you've never been it may be hard to appreciate, if you have then you'll want to donate.
They're doing well though, it only started yesterday and they've overfunded the initial contribution but perhaps they set their sights too low.
We (modestly?) asked for 50% of the total cost of the building work and have offered a generous reward scheme for those pledging, so should we exceed this figure, then of course we'd be delighted to be able to fund more (or all) of the £4000 required (plus an estimated additional loss of £1000 in trade during the disruption).
For many years we've also sidelined other building and general maintenance work in favour of ploughing any spare cash (and well into our overdraft) back into the bookshop and on creative expansion projects in the Children's Room, Art Room, Music Room and Cafe. Any additional funds raised would be put towards a number of pressing jobs that have long been neglected, such as roof repairs, central heating, painting, new (and extended) shelving, new carpets on the first and second floors, patio repairs (in the cafe garden), a staff toilet...to name just some of the other essentials that may allow us to continue for at least another forty years!
As with all independent bookshops, we operate within incredibly tight budgets, and any money raised over and above our initial target would make a significant difference to our ability to not only continue to operate at our current level, but to make some substantial improvements AND improve the longer term stability of our much-loved bookshop.
http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/scarthin-books-needs-your-help/?
Project aim
To raise 50% of the cost of essential building work to secure the structure of the premises (four steel posts on the ground floor) in order to support the ever-growing weight of stock (currently approximately 100,000 books across thirteen rooms on three floors) at Scarthin Books of Cromford, which was named as the '6th Best Bookshop in the World' by the Guardian Online (2008). 
