/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11428508]

what and wheres your favorite book store?

[Anonymous No.11428514]

yo is that the one down the block from the old revolution books location? i copped a comfy af old school two volume "selected works of karl marx" from there for 10 bucks, also saw an old af copy of paris review or sth with a sarte essay in it, but i was like fuck sarte

[Anonymous No.11428522]

>>11428514
Pinko.

[Anonymous No.11428527]

>>11428514
oh my bad i was thinking of this place

[Anonymous No.11428537]

>>11428522
pinkos freed the slaves long before and irrespective of any matter of jurisprudence

[Anonymous No.11428543]

I recently moved to Leipzig and there's several excellent used book stores downtown. Great place.

[Anonymous No.11428547]

>>11428508
BDS Books in fargo.
The owner makes it so comfy

[Anonymous No.11428580]

>>11428508
There's a small charity bookstore that sells the excess of the local library and donated books for about a buck each with the proceeds being donated to improving the local library. I've gotten a ton of classics there for next to nothing and the old ladies who volunteer there are super nice and love to talk literature.

[Anonymous No.11428590]

Tak'ub al Shal'zaar
Between realities

[Anonymous No.11428598]

for me, it is www.amazon.com

[Anonymous No.11428605]

For me it's She Said Boom in Toronto. My real favourite shut down a couple years ago.

[Anonymous No.11428611]

>>11428537
Pinkos also promised to resurge the economy in many parts of Africa and that completely failed

[Anonymous No.11428614]

>tfw online shopping has made used book shops in my area practically scalpers who sell their books at close to retail.

[Anonymous No.11428615]

>>11428598
Based

[Anonymous No.11428619]

There’s a members only library near me called the literary and philosophical society of Newcastle, it’s fucking based

[Anonymous No.11428653]

Buchhandlung Yellow on Garnisongasse, Vienna

[Anonymous No.11428654]

Under the volcano books, mexico city

[Anonymous No.11428670]

The 2nd and Charles in my town has a gnarly book selection.

[Anonymous No.11428686]

>>11428508
My favorite bookstore is the Barnes and Noble in Northern VA.

[Anonymous No.11428695]

>>11428508
youll know it if you've been here.

[Anonymous No.11428800]

>>11428508
Powell's(?) is pretty neat, but I usually go in there and get lost and can't pick anything out. Plus it's honestly really hard to justify paying the MSRP for books when I can either buy a used copy or just pirate it.

I do really enjoy going to thrift stores and finding neat things. I recently picked up an incomplete set of the Grolier Classics collection. I couldn't really find out if it was filled with abridged versions or the full text of some of the stories, as one of the books includes the Odyssey among other stories, and my copy is bigger than that book alone. But hey, it was 5 bucks for the whole set as one of my local thrift stores sells books for 50 cents each if it's a hardback, and 25 cents if it's a paper back.

[Anonymous No.11428837]

>>11428654
fucking bueno

[Anonymous No.11428842]

>>11428800
I picked up all of Ortega y Gasset's books for like $3-4 each recently at Powell's

[Anonymous No.11428885]

Not a good bookstore experience, but a bad one.

So I went to Shakespeare & Co in Paris when I was there recently - shit fucking sucked. There was a line at the door with a legit bouncer waving people through. Once I got in, I saw the staff tell at least five separate people that they couldn't take photos in the store (because apparently that's what people go to Shakespeare & Co to do). The store is tiny and overcrowded, the selection was shit, and I only bought something just so I could say I got a book from S&C. The 20 yo American tourist in front of me at the register bought a copy of Milk and Honey - the only saving grace of the whole experience was when he asked the cashier what she thought of Rupi Kaur, and she looked him in the eye and deadpanned, "She's shit."

2/10, but why did I expect anything else?

[Anonymous No.11428903]

>>11428598
Yes. I had a www.amazon.com in my town too. Loved it.

[Anonymous No.11428925]

>>11428885
Sylvia Beach's book's my guess..

[Anonymous No.11428944]

>>11428925
The book I got? Chess Story, by Stefan Zweig.

[Anonymous No.11429064]

[Anonymous No.11429164]

There's a few independent book stores in Dublin but their selection varies. One bookstore is small and has great selection for its size but only sells paperbacks. One is a massive "used" bookstore which is half used books half new with pretty good selection, albeit a small phil section and few hardcovers. Then there's the big chain bookstore that has lots of hardcovers and the best selection of the bunch.
But none of these are the best in the city. That prize goes to Ulysses books, a privately owned collector and seller of rare and old books, mostly old Irish texts from a few hundred years ago. On display for high prices is a first edition of things like Joyces poems, Dracula (in better condition than the writers museum copy), collected works of Wilde, Yeats, Heaney, and illustrations of famous figures and maps of the city. There are also walls of ancient texts that have been forgotten and include poetry, prose fiction, political treatsies, histories of the island and important people, and lots more. Great little shop, and the cashier is cute too.

[Anonymous No.11429169]

https://www.google.com/maps/@59.9389702,30.3211956,3a,74.5y,36.93h,75.32t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1ssGQ2E5AhU3MAAAQ3o5boqQ!2e0!3e2!7i10772!8i5386

[Anonymous No.11429191]

I used to live in an apartment right above a used book store called Logos in Santa Cruz. Me and my roommate would make frequent trips there when we were bored and always came back with good finds.

[Anonymous No.11429200]

mckays in nashville, tn

[Anonymous No.11429231]

>>11428686
..... where are the books???

[Anonymous No.11429582]

>>11428508

The Nook on Robinson

[Anonymous No.11429616]

>>11429200
What part of Nash are you in

[Anonymous No.11429688]

>>11429200
Based McKay's. I visit the one in Greensboro, NC whenever I can. I've found some of my most cherished copies in there, and there's never a shortage of old guys that donate their philosophy books with meticulous commentary in the marginalia.

[Anonymous No.11429710]

>>11428598
>Amazon
>used books
You'll thank me for this, fren. www.abebooks.com

[Anonymous No.11429752]

>>11428695
Lawrence, KS?

[Anonymous No.11429895]

>>11428508
I wish. There are none in east europe. Book stores only have pop lit and I know of only 2 shops for used books and they are you guessed it, for pop lit. Peasants don't read, they work 12 hour days all week long.

[Anonymous No.11429898]

Grand splendid in Buenos Aires, used to be a Theatre

[Anonymous No.11429950]

The Genesis Library, with convenient locations throughout the British Indian Ocean Territory

[Anonymous No.11429968]

One childhood vacation to Florida, we went to a huge place called either The Book Cave or The Book Cove, can't remember now. Place was huge. But all I got was the first volume of Fullmetal Alchemist (I was in middle school)

[Anonymous No.11430036]

The Strand is probably the biggest book store where I can find books cheaper than retail price. Just have to sift pass all the merch and lib shit.

[Anonymous No.11430044]

>>11429898
Beautiful

Will visit one day and pay my respects to borges

[Anonymous No.11430085]

The Last Bookstore in LA is comfy af

[Anonymous No.11430110]

Bislett bok, Oslo

[Anonymous No.11430144]

>tfw live in a small town that doesnt even have a bookshop

[Anonymous No.11430154]

>>11428800
Mother Foucault's is better imo

[Anonymous No.11430186]

>>11428508
It's called Recollected. Owned by a retired old sociology professor and a bunch of maimed cats. It smells like piss, it's dark, but it's in the center of my old college town's little roundabout thingy. It was a beautiful area in the appalachian mtns.

The owner will cut you a deal too, if he could tell you weren't, like, a poser.

[Anonymous No.11430231]

Foyles in London, Strand in NYC, The Last Bookstore in LA, Powell’s in Portland (and Chicago). Every city I go to I try and hit up a store.

My fave and my regular is the Seminary Coop in Chicago - by far the place that stocks the most academic presses and a wonderful front table that has all the new and notable releases that are worth checking out.

[Anonymous No.11430268]

>>11428944
No. Beach founded Shakespeare and Co. and wrote a wonderful small history of the place's first 10 or so years, including readings by Joyce when Ulysses was still in manuscript, Hemingway's hanging out there, etc. It was once quite the place, evidently.
The only famous bookstore I've ever visited was City Lights in San Francisco. Though it's adequate (I got a copy of Guy Davenport's The Geography of the Imagination there) I'm sure it's fallen off somewhat from its Beat beginnings.

[Anonymous No.11430339]

>>11428508

[Anonymous No.11430343]

>>11430231
why are u such a pretentious cunt? does it feel u with warmth and feel good vibes when u travel and act out like a cliche intellectual?

[Anonymous No.11430449]

>>11430231
>My fave and my regular is the Seminary Coop in Chicago - by far the place that stocks the most academic presses and a wonderful front table that has all the new and notable releases that are worth checking out.

Everything in the seminary coop is $40 and those tables are filled with the kind of garbage that only slacktivist pieces of shit, reddit babbies, and "Look at me I'm into literature" wannabes read

Fucking embarrassing, no one needs the 39th book on "Carceral Capitalism" trendfilth released in 2 years, let alone on a rolling basis. I hope you get shot in the fucking head.

[Anonymous No.11430529]

John K. King Used and Rare Books. If you know, you know.

[Anonymous No.11430544]

>>11430144
that's bad luck anon
i live in a small town that has three bookshops
waterstones, mainstream high street bookshop
a typical second hand bookshop
an antiquarian bookshop
i hardly ever go in the antiquarian bookshop because it's a bit intimidating. there's shelves full of leather bound volumes, rare first editions etc. but they do have a sale shelf outside where everything is £3. it's usually stuff that i guess they get as part of job lots or house clearances. there's usually some interesting stuff or folio society etc on it
two other small towns nearby have oxfam bookshops which is where i buy most of my books

[Anonymous No.11430555]

>>11430231
>Foyles in London
they have a lot of books but i don't think anyone would ever name it as a "favourite bookshop". even on charing cross road there are more interesting small bookshops

[Anonymous No.11430565]

>>11428654
It's so cozy.
It's a shame they closed the restaurant downstairs, it looks abandoned.

[Anonymous No.11430847]

>>11428695
St. Louis

[Anonymous No.11430855]

>>11429950
Their free postage is a godsend

[Anonymous No.11430873]

>>11430555
He’s a twatty yank tourist

[Anonymous No.11430891]

>>11428885
I went there last summer and it was quite nice. No bouncer, that must be something new I guess. There were signs saying don't take pictures but nobody said anything about it. Selection of what I wanted wasn't bad for a store that small, and the top floor was really cool to look at. I got my girlfriend some Epictetus and she liked it. I didn't buy anything for myself because I just got used French books from those guys that sell them along the river from the little green stands, which was nice, I met an old man and told him I was learning French and he gave me a bunch of extra Descartes books for free.
It sounds like you went in looking for reasons to get pissed off and call S&C overrated, so you easily found them.

[Anonymous No.11430896]

>>11429616
I go to Belmont but i live in franklin wbu

[Anonymous No.11430970]

I liek 57th street books in Hyde park

[Anonymous No.11430976]

the library bookshop in laguna beach a lil sunken joint beneath the actual library … all that shit cost like 50 cents and some nice old lady mans the counter

[Anonymous No.11431104]

>>11428508

[Anonymous No.11431120]

>>11430036
Too many tourists. It's right next to where I work, but I walk to McNally Jackson on Prince cuz its a more low-key

[Anonymous No.11431165]

>>11428885
>>11430891
I was in Paris two weeks ago for a few hours between trains, and passed by Shakespeare & Co. They had the bouncer, some obnoxious guy typing poems on a typewriter as a sort of street act, and loads of American tourists. We didn't go in there. There's no sense in going into a crowded bookshop.

Incidentally, there is a smaller English literature second hand bookshop stuffed with books nearby (literally stuffed, featuring no space to move and double sliding bookshelves) with none of the crowds, over on 29, Rue de la Parcheminerie (Abbey Bookshop). That bookshop does have its charm (although the books are overpriced even for a continental bookseller).

Also, a handful of the book stalls along the banks of the Seine carry English books as well. One, somewhere between the Pont de la Archevêché and the Pont de la Tournelle had an interesting selection of first editions hard covers.

[Anonymous No.11431242]

The best bookshop I've ever found was in Ventnor on the Isle of Wight, in 2017. An old English guy owns an old French bus from the 1930s that he imported from France after it was taken of the Paris bus lines in the 70s. He restored the vehicle and kept it running.

During the Ventnor Fringe festival he and his son turned the bus into a second hand bookshop for the occasion, with a very nice selection of literature. Mostly Penguin paperbacks and such, and no exciting editions, but a good selection nonetheless, and the setting (great weather, friendly chat with the dude about how he fell in love with that bus when he went to France in the 60s and eventually managed to buy it) really made the experience.

[Anonymous No.11431295]

>>11431242
that sounds cool anon. i love the iow but i haven't been for a couple of years
i see the next festival is next month, i might go along

[Anonymous No.11431337]

>>11428508
My favorite bookstore is The Bookplate in Chestertown, MD. It's a small tourist town on the eastern shore.

The shop has a nice selection of books: sciences, history, travel, lots of genre fiction and literature proper. I picked up a couple of used books formerly from John Barth's library there. They also sell Spanish pottery and god-tier olive oil. At the front of the store is a neat case of first editions and a leatherbound section. Picked up a lot of nice obscure books from there over several visits.

[Anonymous No.11431398]

>>11428695
Dunaway books

[Anonymous No.11431432]

My favourite bookstore has tons of books stashed tight so you can barely walk between them

The guy running it doesn't follow you around so I can steal a lot of stuff easily

[Anonymous No.11431447]

My favourite bookstore was the one some guy rented for like a week and he didn't organize anything and just had books everywhere and not even good books like all thrift store trash and he had like 5 pet cats roaming around the place and he kept talking about how he arranged this in his manic phase and regrets it and isn't making money and is going to kill himself soon or something

[Anonymous No.11431450]

>>11429710
Amazon has used books and they fuckingown abebooks you retard

[Anonymous No.11431463]

>>11429231
b&n is trying to stay afloat by adding restaurants to their bookstores

[Anonymous No.11431501]

>>11428508
all the bookstores are hanging on by a thread despite the influx of "college educated" whites into the are, theyre all braindead yuppies from chicago and seattle

[Anonymous No.11431512]

>>11429200
Mckay's in Knoxville. Half of my book shelf is from there. I find so many good hard-to-find books there.

[Anonymous No.11431556]

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>>11431501

[Anonymous No.11431635]

>>11431501
rip

[Anonymous No.11431664]

>>11429710
can't effectively check quality on abebooks
received some pretty trash books from there

[Anonymous No.11432045]

>>11431556
>refugees welcome here
i bet they wouldn't be when they realise they don't have any fucking money and they scare away normal people

[Anonymous No.11432054]

Barns and nobel in the mall

[Anonymous No.11432067]

>>11428508
Amazon, plebes.

[Anonymous No.11432084]

What's a good way to disinfect used books?

[Anonymous No.11432101]

>>11432084
Leave them out in the sun.

[Anonymous No.11432113]

>>11431398
>>11430847
yes

[Anonymous No.11432203]

>>11430339
This but sadly, unironically.

[Anonymous No.11432212]

>>11429200
I heard they closed, nice place though, got a collection of horror short stories for like 50 cents.

[Anonymous No.11432283]

>>11430449
>Being this fundament frustrated over someone's differing taste in books
Well, uh, I hope a duck steals your panties off the clothesline.

[Anonymous No.11432303]

>>11431556
They just expanded for the third time in five years, I doubt they're just hanging on by a thread.

[Anonymous No.11432486]

>>11432045
The trendies love it and the refugees can't even read what it says.

Great bit of virtue signalling.

[Anonymous No.11432891]

Rotary used books bookstore near my home. Typically get 4-5 books for 10$, lots of uninteresting books, but a fair selection of classics and some interesting non-fiction.

[Anonymous No.11432898]

>>11430565
Since i remember it always looked like that, is was supposed to be a bar i think

[Anonymous No.11432905]

>>11431432
have you?

[Anonymous No.11432950]

>>11428527
Is that place good? I go to Alibaster’s by Union Square. But I go to college 20 minutes away from there, might want to stop on by. Where do these bookstores buy their awnings from?

[Anonymous No.11432961]

>>11431104
This, best selection I've found in a bookstore in my days

[Anonymous No.11433050]

Pulp Fiction in Vancouver