/lit/ - Literature

I buy everything online.

http://www.thebookdepository.co.uk <- my favourite. Worldwide free shipping and actually very, very low prices. If I want to find a (new) book for the cheapest it is usually there.

You've just given me one less reason to ever have to leave to The Basement of Solitude.

Thank you, kind stranger.

I love Half-Price Books here in Texas. If you can't figure out why based on their name, it's time to read more and work on that comprehension problem.
I wish they gave you more for the books, though, I took a hundred books there once and got only 8 dollars.

>>1050708
Which store?

FUCKING BORDERS!

You enjoy having books topple on top of you?

>>1050714
The big one off of Northwest Hwy. I go there a lot.

there's a small used bookstore around the corner from my in philadelphia. it's called something like book world. it's a little overpriced for a bookstore, the average being around $7, but the selection is very good, it's quiet, and it's local.

The Book Shop in Hayward
http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-book-shop-hayward

Everyone keeps raging about this place:
http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/
I have yet to pay it a visit.

I've found I've been lucky every time I've been to the Texas Book Depository.

>>1050717

I prefer to think of it as "bookake".

>>1050721
Oh neat. There was going to be a /lit/ Texas meet-up there in one of those hookup threads. Don't think there were enough people interested though.

>>1050731
Yeah, I was the one doubting people would be interested.
/lit/ is a small board man.

Powell's City of Books, Portland OR. Everywhere else is lesser.

Its called The Library, there is one in like every city, and the books are all free.

my city only has 1 bookstore and 70% of the shop is just romance novels. feels bad man ;_;

>>1050721

The Northwest Highway store is indeed awesome. I like to go every week and check out the clearance section.

Fahrenheit's Books in Denver, CO.
>>1050759
I'm going to try for a job there next summer, do you think I could get hired even if I'm from out of state?

In my area (northeast Los Angeles) we have Brand Bookstore, Bookfellows, Vroman's, Cliff's Books, and Book Alley. Not to mention several Borders and Barnes & Noble stores. All very good bookstores--especially the first one.

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I FUCKING LOVE THEM.

Protip: take relatively good care of your books and return them there. I usually get a good 20 bucks for a garbage-sack full.

Favourite offline - either Uncle Peter's Books in Lismore, or Thinkers' Bookshop at Tweed Heads. Ausfag here.

Favourite online - Leura books is pretty nice. 6.50 domestic shipping covers as many books as you want, and they apply a 20% discount if you use their website (not abebooks). There's also bookdepository of course.

Most hated bookshop - Archives in Brisbane. They have at least a million used books under their roof and all of it is way overpriced. Also they stick their old penguins/pelicans under the front counter so you have to get on your knees in the narrow entrance and be a nuisance. If I was inclined to steal, I would.

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Booklovers in North Vancouver - it's a store packed chock full of books floor to ceiling, with only narrow passages in between.

Paperbacks $1, hardcover $3.

favorite is Camelot Books in Orange County because their prices rock and their shelves are nicely organized. Some Jappo run used bookstore opened in the Westminster Mall which awesome prices and more than books- dvds, manga, music- but shit is so hard to find because their books aren't organized beyond letter of author's last name.

>>1050946
I don't know. Could be tough. The employees there typically strike me as elite booklords.

Barnes & Noble and Borders, most locations.

Make fun of them, but there is a reason they are successful

Give me a great environment which encourages me to read for free and I will spend money, lots and lots of money.

Give me tables of useless and heavily discounted picture books and I will happily buy them as gifts.

Yes formulaic, yes generic, but they are brilliant.

>>1051857
SHit meant to go there.

Have been going to Carson's on Dunbar lately, pretty good selection too.

Thanks for the tip bro

Waterstone's: Come for the anatomy, stay for the philosophy.

Happened across The Book Barn in Niantic, Connecticut by chance. Multi-building bliss.

http://www.bookbarnniantic.com/

There's a tiny bookshop in my town, the kind where all the books are second hand and fill every last inch of wall, that turns into a restaurant in the evening and serves Thai food. Classy as fuck.

There's some lovely independent ones around Camden Town in London. Can't remember exact names, but they're always fun.

>>1052991

Looks neat. Like the "to do" list to the left.

>>1052991
I go there too!
Their selection is great and the people who work there are very knowledgeable. It actually turns out that my mother's cousin is the owner.

>>1050721
HAH! Thats my favorite bookstore as well. I go there frequently.

< -- This place (library, not prison)

or Amazon.com

I'm in Los Angeles, anybody know any great book stores?

>>1053194
See this-------->>>1050966

Also, where in LA are you, anon?

Books-A-Million is a great one for getting hard-to-find/out of print books and their website offers free shipping on orders over $25. A friend of mine loves shopping at their store but there isn't one near where I live, so I use their site instead.

El Ateneo, in Buenos Aires.

It was originally a theater but it was turned into a library. Multi-leveled and there's usually live classical music in what was once the theater stage. It's awesome.

This is where I buy my English books (if I don't get them on Amazon or download them to my Kindle)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/paspog/2367558473/

>>1050722

wish I would've known about that place when I was there the other week. I went to Robin's book store which, last time I was there, seemed like they were going to close up shop soon. It was an alright selection though. Got some Paul Bowles and Michaux.

There's a place in Baltimore called Normals that I really dig. I spent like 200 bucks there once on a big stack of books cause they had a good deal of surrealists

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I'm flying across the country to go to college in Portland partially because of Powell's.

>>1053219
Also this

>>1053218
I am on Buenos Aires since past Thursday.

Fucking spectacular.

>>1053194
No answer... ;_;

>>1053209
I'm over in 90025, south of Westwood Village, near the Mormon temple.

Silverlake NE or Pasadena North East?

>>1053242

Pasadena. I usually stick to the places I mentioned earlier, though I will venture to Book Soup, Iliad, and Counterpoint in the Westside/Hollywood area. There's also Alias Books on Sawtelle.

Favorite bookstores in Philly:
House of Our Own (3920 Spruce Street)
— Gorgeous inside, lots and lots of books, and a killer selection.

Book Corner (311 N. 20th Street)
— Great selection, always in good condition, as it's old library books. Money goes to support the Free Library of Philadelphia

The Last Word (220 S. 40th Street)
— Great selection, well lit, adorable bookstore cat. What more do you need?

I'm also a sucker for Strand, in NYC but who isn't?

Never been to a really awesome bookstore =/ I like Borders and B&N just cause they are everywhere and have a good selection. Books and Books is the Miami chain bookstore which has a nice feel to it, and they stock more "artsy, indie" books. and then the thrift stores always have a books/movies/records wall which is nice cuz the books are usually 50 cents.

and DC has nothing that I know of -_- every few months a used book store pops up in abandon buildings. it's really random, but pretty kool.

and I fucking want to go to Powells so bad. sososososo bad. I heard from like 24923957 different people how amazing it is.

I've heard some horror stories about the place, but The Strand in New York has a huge array of interesting books both old and new.

>>1053250
Oh, I was at Alias the other day. You know they got a new used book shop (mostly crime novels and other old paperbacks) down the street on Idaho. (You can look it up on street view. It's the little white box on the west end, on the north side.)

>>1053262
I'm>>1053219 and >>1053233.

I like the architecture. I wish I could travel there one day

>>1053269

Do try making the trip to Brand in Glendale. Great selection and very affordable. They're having a Labor Day sale soon. I believe it starts next week.

Bookfellows is pricy, but their books are very clean and in excellent shape. They tend to cater to the sci-fi crowd, if you're into that sort of thing (I'm not). Ray Bradbury goes there often.

Vroman's has a better selection than any Borders or B & N you'll ever visit. But their staff can be pretty fucking awful. Bunch of pompous and pretentious art students who circle jerk over Hugo Chavez and Chuck Palahniuk. I took pictures of their in-store reviews. Fucking awful. We should make a thread devoted to those things sometime.

The Reader's Quarry in Woodstock, NY is tiny, but it's really cool. They specialize in carrying old used books for book collector types, but the books themselves can be pretty interesting reads. Here's a copy of "Rebecca" that I found there, printed by Country Life Press.

Has anyone here actually stayed in Shakespeare & Co.? It sounds cool as hell and I hope to go there for a few weeks next year.

>>1053262
What horror stories have you heard? Every time I've been there, it's been fine. Crowded, but fine.

>>1053358
I haven't stayed there but I plan on trying to stay there for a night or two at the end of next month.

>>1053360

Just "the employees are assholes" and "The Strand is BIG AND EVIL" (as in, they pay crap for books, pay crap to people who work there, and use their size and market position to put the hurt on other stores and on occasional publishers).

Figures that a shop that's so popular that it's almost a cliche to mentioned has its share of haters, really. I've never experienced anything other than a good time there, myself.

>>1053379
Dude, it's New York. Of *course* the employees are assholes. It just comes with the territory.

I've never tried to sell anything there. If I was going to, I'd go to Book Corner in Philly to make sure the money went somewhere good.