I need a name for my new bookstore 2: Return of Book Store names

[Anonymous No.2525096]

I started a thread a few days ago asking for help with a name for by Book store/tea shop in Ottawa, Canada. I've narrowed it down to a few names:
The Readery
Read Book Read Books (pronounced however you like it!)
Black Squirrel Books
Word Well
Analogue Books

[Anonymous No.2525100]

One book, two book, read book, new book

Book it, Lou

[Anonymous No.2525103]

Call it "Folding in a Few Months"

[▒ R E I ▒ !Ry9ZOO5Ag. No.2525104]

"BOOK STORAGE".

[Anonymous No.2525105]

BOOK SHOP

there.

[Anonymous No.2525108]

PJ McHufflepuff's Good-Time Bookery and Tea-Quaffing Sedentarium

[Anonymous No.2525119]

>>2525108
Shit, I'd go there. But I'd be disappointed when there was no tea or marijuana.

[Anonymous No.2525120]

I'm biased towards Black Squirrel Books. I can't help it. My town had a bookstore called Red Fox Books and it was fun watching it slowly gather plus red foxes.

[Anonymous No.2525121]

Books 'n Shit

[Anonymous No.2525123]

Black Squirrel Books ftw

[Anonymous No.2525138]

Book jiffing central

The tea and the queef - Books.

Smegma pub.

[Anonymous No.2525143]

Black Books

[Anonymous No.2525144]

Good God What Were We Thinking, Mom and Pop Bookstores Are Dropping Like Flies and We Decided to Open Another One? Please Have Mercy on Us

you're gonna need a big sign.

[Anonymous No.2525149]

>>2525108

This is by far the best title.

[Anonymous No.2525156]

>call it amazon.com
>???
>profit

[Anonymous No.2525166]

The Thousand-Story Building

[Anonymous No.2525167]

Bookz.

[Anonymous No.2525171]

Sticky Pages: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the book.

[Anonymous No.2525181]

>>2525144
Don't make fun of OP. He's gonna have enough grief when he's broke.

[Anonymous No.2525189]

Restroom For Paying Customers Only

[Anonymous No.2525193]

secondhand bookshops and the small chains like Readings and independents like Paperback Bookshop are doing quite well here in Melbourne
if you are a second hand I recommend adding cats, they are a big crowd drawer at Sybers on Chapel St
If normal then add a cafe

[Anonymous No.2525200]

>>2525193
while two of the big chains have gone bankrupt, especially the American one Borders

[Anonymous No.2525204]

I like Analogue Books.

[Anonymous No.2525206]

Hey OP, girlfriend guy again;
I love your frequenting on this board, I really didn't expect to see two or three threads about your bookstore, that's totally awesome!

I have a job opportunity with the Wayfarer bookstore in Kingston, Ontario, though I may very well not be working there, the infamous owner of the shop/art gallery did take my information down for consideration, and though it's nobody's business really, I think it gives me some cred.

I've been working with journalists, poets, editors, publishers, theatre and film artists, and students in my city for the past year in various facets, mostly journalism on my part. Opening a bookstore has always been my version of the opening-a-bar fantasy that guys get. My grandmother used to operate a bookstore in Kincardine, Ontario, and her bibliophilia has survived in the blood if not in the upbringing (she never really pressed anything on me, pun not intended).

Anyway, if you're ever interested in talking shop, I'm down to be contacted. I often go to bookfairs, was just at one in Kanata earlier this month, know about market value and a little bit about what it takes to run a bookshop from reading and stories, and I am always interested in a piece of the action, that is, what action exists between the lines of book business. I'm a student at Queen's, studying languages, so perhaps my knowledge of both the provincial book market and literary culture can be of help or interest at least.

[Anonymous No.2525284]

>>2525206
you're shit

[Anonymous No.2525286]

>>2525166
Goddamn, this one is good.

[Anonymous No.2525287]

>>2525206
is this negroid individual sincere?

[Anonymous No.2525310]

those are all stupid names but since you're store is going to be full of retarded hipsters anyway it doesn't matter if you have a good name or not

[Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ No.2525390]

[Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ No.2525387]

[Anonymous No.2525393]

>>2525387
>>2525390
Call it Butterfly Books

[Anonymous No.2525409]

The Bookshop of Babel

[Anonymous No.2525417]

if i was investing in your used book store i would pull my investments based on the potential names.

[Ludwig !9CUY39dDYo No.2525422]

The Font of Knowledge

[The Importance of Being On Time and Being !dAqyKvNZuA No.2525424]

>>2525096
Stack some treadmills by the window and call it Bibliobesity.

[Anonymous No.2525425]

I like these three
The Readery
Word Well
Analogue Books

[Anonymous No.2525426]

Call it
Ernest Hummingbird's

[Anonymous No.2525427]

The trendy bookstore in my hipster suburb is called: Better Read Than Dead

[Anonymous No.2525443]

>>2525417

I have to agree with this. Listen up, OP, my dad has held a number of extremely high-level positions in the advertising and marketing fields over the course of his career. So I am in a position to help you out - free of charge. I have some names that I will let you use. If you pick one of these names, you have a shot at success.

1. Charnel House Books
2. Greasy Pages
3. Hipster Apartment Decorations
4. Books n Free Pastry Samples
5. Last Stop before the cheapass financed coffin your children bought for you
6. Last Stop Before the Food Desert
7. Zyklon Books
8. Snack Shop 99
9. Please Shoplift from this Store and Beat My Face in if I Protest
10. The Bottom of the Bag of Chips

>>2525206

weeooo weeooo!!! here come the shitbird police. you've been charged with 175 counts of felony prick behavior and 1 felony count of evading the WTC attack you should have died in

[Anonymous No.2525447]

>>2525096
I don't like any of these.

[The Importance of Being On Time and Being !dAqyKvNZuA No.2525454]

>>2525096
Fucking shit, just call it The Reading Rectum.

[Anonymous No.2525480]

Just call it Lit.

[Anonymous No.2525482]

Bookorium

[Anonymous No.2525488]

Nicholas Hoare :-(

Librairie Dekcuf

[Anonymous No.2525491]

>>2525096
colorless green ideas

[Anonymous No.2525493]

[Your last name]s Tea and Books

[Anonymous No.2525495]

>>2525493

well gaddd damnnn, brand strategy genius in our midst

[lol i trol u !!8m+H51rfpNO No.2525496]

>>2525108

I actually love this name. With a properly-designed sign, it would be awesome. You could just call it P.J.'s for short.

[Anonymous No.2525506]

>>2525493
Sell only tea you grow and books written by you

[Anonymous No.2525510]

>>2525506

perfect, OP can compete with the local childrens' lemonade stands

[Anonymous No.2525851]

Sorry OP here, I went off to grab a few drinks as becoming a bookstore owner also means you must become an alcoholic. As I said last night, I'm trying to narrow names down...

[Anonymous No.2525895]

Bedlam and Erudition

[Anonymous No.2525905]

>>2525851
Hey OP, can I ask you how much your lease on the building cost and for how long? Are you the only employee, and do you sell second-hand or new books? If new how much does it cost a month, if second hand, did you just collect a bunch of books over the years?

>sorry to bombard with questions
>really want to open my own store one day

[Anonymous No.2525906]

Tea and Dreams

[Anonymous No.2525929]

In my rather small, local town in Norway, there's a bookshop called "the antiquarian".

[Anonymous No.2525947]

My local indie bookshop is called 'Book Bonanza' for serious, and it's still doing well. Pretty sure names don't matter very much in the bookshop trade. I wish you the best of luck anyway, and cast my vote on Word Well.

[Anonymous No.2525948]

The Bookery > The Readery (both have already been used fyi)

but I would name it

The Pageleaf

(Pages because BOOKS, and leaf because TEA. YEA)

[Anonymous No.2526045]

Half-Baked Mammogram

>>2525108
I changed my mind, I'm throwing my support behind this one.

[Anonymous No.2526079]

NO NIGGERS ALLOWED BOOK EMPORIUM

[Anonymous No.2526094]

I like Read Book Read Books.

Just keep it simple, i think flashy names might drive people away.

[Anonymous No.2526099]

>>2525189

[Anonymous No.2526113]

Call it Dano's.

get a boozy old cop to hand out book du jour, and have the clerk say "Book 'im, Dano."

Quarto Books

Dangerous ideas in mild-mannered books.

Analog books would be my choice, but see if it's been trademarked, if it has, use the slashed zero or Theta for the O's

[Anonymous No.2526115]

>Analogue Books

I actually really like this one.

[Anonymous No.2526127]

>>2526113
>>2526115
I think the science fiction magazine Analog might have something to say about that

[Anonymous No.2526157]

>>2526127
That's still in print?!

[Anonymous No.2526172]

>>2526157

Of course:
http://www.analogsf.com/2012_05/index.shtml

But they'd have no reason to complain about analogue.

[Anonymous No.2526173]

call it /lit/

[Anonymous No.2526186]

Willy's Books
The Phallus Of Reason
Scroty J. Junior's Page Symposium
Art Ejaculated Onto Paper
Pubic Tomes
Ode To A Dead Bookstore
Books For Everyone
Books For A Select Few
Books For Tots
House Of Ridiculous Books
Hoffman's House Of History
Not Another YA Bookstore
Many Letters
Leatherbound Dreams
Politically Correct Novel Office
Age Of Text
Books And A Cuppa

[Anonymous No.2526206]

There's one in my city ( New Delhi) called "Spell & Bound"

[Anonymous No.2526224]

>>2525443
>7. Zyklon Books

[Anonymous No.2526606]

just realized OP is in my town.

[Anonymous No.2526613]

Appealing Words

Twisted minds

Booked Out

Flying Pages

Open Mind

gl my friend

[Behemoth !!Twl3DmqEY/B No.2526623]

Lit 'n' Shit.

Propaganda Shop

Booooooooooookss

We Be Readin

Illiterates Anonymous

[Anonymous No.2527007]

Well Read

[Anonymous No.2527010]

"Illiterate"

[Anonymous No.2527013]

Call it "Symposium"

[Standard Toaster !RQTOASTvfI No.2527015]

>>2526623
I liked all of those.

[Anonymous No.2527018]

"Spoilers Everywhere"

[Anonymous No.2527020]

Call it "Unlucrative." If that sounds too off-putting, you can alter it to make it more welcoming/learned, like "The Unlucrativium" or "The Unlucrative Space."

[Anonymous No.2527034]

>>2527020
I like The Unlucrativium. It sort of owns the fact that the place is a horrible business venture, which is charming, in a way. I'd visit it. Probably wouldn't buy anything, but I'd visit it.

[Anonymous No.2527038]

What's bookin', book bookin?

[Anonymous No.2527039]

Look at how many used book stores already exist in Ottawa:

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&luref=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&ix=
sea&ion=1&biw=1012&bih=622&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=used+books+ottawa+canada&fb=1
&gl=us&hq=used+books&hnear=0x4cce05b25f5113af:0x8a6a51e131dd15ed,Ottawa,+ON,
+Canada&ei=D8J3T6bZKOiSiAKM1tynDg&sa=X&oi=local_group&ct=image&ved=0CBYQtgM

[Anonymous No.2527078]

We Put A Book in Your Book So You Can Read While You Read.

I don't have any xhibit pics

[Anonymous No.2528195]

bump for more awesome names

[Anonymous No.2528210]

Black Squirrel is great and you should hire someone to make an old-school sign with the name of the bookstore and a black squirrel

[Anonymous No.2528232]

Either this or Ayn Rand Books for Tots

[Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ No.2528303]

>>2528195
"Awesome names?"

Black Squirrel Books, is kinda nice.
Parnassus, my suggestion, has some literary meaning behind it. Or you could go with the title of a good book, or a reworking of one.

-Margarita's Bookmark
-Invisible City's bookstore & tea
-Books from the Underground

Authors names?
-Voltaire's
-The Orwellian.
-Camoo Corner (Yuck)

Or just a reference
-Lilliputian books
-Caladan books
-Ascanius
-[Open Finnegan's Wake, point randomly]

[Anonymous No.2528333]

>>2528303
>-Voltaire's
>-The Orwellian.
>-Camoo Corner
>-Lilliputian books

i would fucking vomit on those bookstores

tose are fucking terrible names

[Anonymous No.2528349]

I'm the spitting image of Dermot Morgan OP. I will beat you with a copy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights if you call it Black Squirrel Books, I swear to god.

[Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ No.2528358]

>>2528333
So you like the others?
I was just throwing out ideas, how to approach.
...What's wrong with Lilliputian books?

[Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ No.2528362]

>>2528349
That's it.
Name it: The Spitting Image of Dermot Morgan

[Anonymous No.2528363]

>>2528349
>>2528358
Yeah the others are okay, I liked the invisible city one Okay

lilliputian books i sjust kind of dumb unless its a very small shop

[Anonymous No.2528383]

Dog Eared Pages Bookstore
or
Bookmarked

[Anonymous No.2528389]

I came across a small book shop in Nassau called Books 'n' Tings. Godspeed, OP.

[Anonymous No.2528391]

>>2528383
I also like the name, The Bookmarked Bookstore

[Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ No.2528395]

>>2528383
Dogears for a used bookstore, but I like bookmark worked in, if not the whole name. The Bookmark.

[Anonymous No.2528396]

Books 'R' Us

[Anonymous No.2528402]

Eat, Sleep, Read

[Anonymous No.2528408]

Read, Reread, Recycle

[Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ No.2528418]

Mount Parnassus is named after Parnassos, the son of the nymph Kleodora and the man Kleopompus. A city, of which Parnassos was leader, was flooded by torrential rains. The citizens ran from the flood, following wolves' howling, up the mountain slope. There the survivors built another city, and called it Lykoreia, which in Greek means "the howling of the wolves." While Orpheus was living[2] with his mother and his eight beautiful aunts on Parnassus, he met Apollo who was courting the laughing muse Thalia. Apollo became fond of Orpheus and gave him a little golden lyre, and taught him to play it. Orpheus's mother taught him to make verses for singing. As the Oracle of Delphi was sacred to the god Apollo, so did the mountain itself become associated with Apollo. According to some traditions, Parnassus was the site of the fountain Castalia and the home of the Muses; according to other traditions, that honor fell to Mount Helicon, another mountain in the same range. As the home of the Muses, Parnassus became known as the home of poetry, music, and learning.

The name "Parnassus" in literature typically refers to its distinction as the home of poetry, literature, and learning

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Parnassus

I still say "Parnassus Books [your city]" is best.

[Anonymous No.2528422]

If by best you mean most homosexual.

[Anonymous No.2528495]

Page Haven
kind of flows, doesn't it?

[Anonymous No.2528736]

The Augean Stable.

[Anonymous No.2528738]

>>2528736
So his store is full of shit?

Nice.

[Anonymous No.2528741]

The Texas School Book Depository.

[Anonymous No.2528745]

Can't Read, Won't read.

[Anonymous No.2528756]

TL;DR: The Store

[Anonymous No.2528776]

The Scratch and Sniff Lounge

[Anonymous No.2528784]

>>2527039

>mfw I live this city too