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Post your local/ favorite bookstore.

>> No.6521860
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>>6521833
Antikvariat Faust all the way

>> No.6522003

>>6521833
>posts some corporate chain book store
>no traces of it being family owned or small business
>only sells new books

You might as well post a photo of Amazon.com, you fucking pleb

>> No.6522032

>>6522003
>Corporate bookstore

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph-Beth_Booksellers

Don't you feel like a stupid ass

>> No.6522047

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22_prJdhqao
It's called "Who is Chesteron?" because each time they brought up the name people thought they meant Chesterfield for the cigarettes. Instead of raging like autists they found it funny and named the place after the reaction they usually got. They tried to popularize the term "book hunter", the ideas was that if you were searching for a specific book they would do the leg work for you.
The girl taking care of the coffee aspect was into that global Tolkien fan club, I always felt it was kind of sectish but this was before facebook and people still did the whole "club" thing.

>> No.6522074
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>>6521833

This is what I'm mainly stuck with aside from a local Oxfam, it's not a bad place but too corporate.

There used to be a good used bookshop in Grainger Market but they closed that one down, I could find a lot of decent stuff there if I looked hard enough like R&V translations of Dostoyevsky but it's gone now.

>> No.6522083
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Brattle Book Shop

>> No.6522091
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>>6521833

>> No.6522135

>>6522083
Would definitely go there. The books looks really easy to steal.

>> No.6522142

>>6522003
Amazon is my bookstore.

>> No.6522160

It really sucks in Portsmouth, there's one dedicated bookstore (waterstones) in the city and it's small and shitty and understocked. I went there one day with a list and literally couldn't find a single one of the following:
Underworld - DeLillo
Siddhartha - Hesse
The Glass Bead Game - Hesse
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital - Moore
Kafka on the Shore - Murakami
Neuromancer - Gibson

So basically I have to order everything because there is nowhere nearby that keeps a good selection. Unless of course I realise that YA and lonely housewife novels are the best thing since breathing.

>> No.6522211
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Best book shop. Second-hand and new stuff.
the guy who owns it is a cool guy too. Everyone loves him.

>> No.6522220

>>6522160
Is this bait?

>> No.6522222

>>6522135
>that's why we can't have nice things.

>> No.6522225

>>6522083

Went there the other day. You should also check out Bryn Mawr used book shop in Cambridge if you're ever in the area. You get a free Shakespeare play for every 10 dollars you spend, so last time I was there I ended up walking away with about 13 books for $50.

>> No.6522229

>>6522222
quintuples recognized

>> No.6522233

>>6522220
None of those books are particularly 'out there' or obscure. Just sucks that it's the only bookstore around other than two WHSmiths, which lets be real here, aren't bookstores they're corner shops that sell stationary and light/popular reading.

>> No.6522465

>>6522222
Really nice digits.

>> No.6522845

Anyone know of any good stores in Columbus?

I love collecting cool physical copies of media like vinyl and tapes but I have no idea where to start with books. There's a cool small bookstore around one of the local suburbs that I like but I have no idea if they sell older copies of stuff or not.

>> No.6522847

>>6521833
Idle Time in D.C. Too high for a pic.

>> No.6522851

>>6522160

I understand your complaint but unfortunately smaller bookstores that aren't chains are limited in what they can have on the shelf. I work in an independent bookstore and for the most part there are a ton of amazing books on the shelf but even something like Underworld we never keep on the shelf because as far as I know I am one of two people who have purchased it in the last 2.5 decades that the store has been open. Independent bookstores often just don't have the luxury of shelf space unfortunately

>> No.6522854

The one in my town kind of sucks but the Crow Bookshop on church st in Burlington VT is GOAT. It has basically everything a /lit/erati could want.

Either /lit/ has millions of lurkers or the people who can't shut up about meme everything need to leave their basement.

>> No.6522864

>>6522854
I used to live in Burlington, that place is rad. Gorgeous town too.
I miss Vermont.

>> No.6522872

>>6522847
>not Politics & Prose

>> No.6522881
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6522881

small world books in venice beach

>> No.6522885

>>6522881

THAT BOOK STORE APPEARS IN AN EPISODE OF GILMORE GIRLS

YOU ARE SO LUCKY YOU SHOP THERE

>> No.6522887

>>6522885
>tfw I will never be a Gilmore Girl
please won't somebody gas me

>> No.6522889
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6522889

>>6521833
the iliad bookshop

they named it that because they used to be next door to a place called odyssey video.

>> No.6522890

>>6522887

>tfw I will never sit with Rory under a tree on a summer's day discussing Proust

why even live?

>> No.6522897
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>>6522885
its got a pretty good selection of both literary and genre fiction.

and a cool cat

didnt see any gilmore girls, tho

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>>6521833
prospero's books in kc is probably the favorite but the dusty bookshelf is local and has resident cats so it's a close second

prospero's gained minor fame because the owner burned a fuck ton of books in front of it in 2007 as a protest of people's irreverence for literature

>> No.6522913

>>6522032
>no used books

>> No.6522919

mckay's in nashville

>> No.6522925

>>6522847
>not second story books in dupont.

>> No.6523268

>>6522142
Don't slit your wrists, guy. Use Book Depository.

>> No.6523944
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Read Books in LA

Store is really small, but the selection is interesting and it has good prices.

>> No.6523952

>>6522881

I know mary the owner

>> No.6523962
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6523962

who /orangecounty/ here?

>> No.6523971

>>6522881
>>6522889
>>6523944
>>6523962
I didn't know /lit/ had so many SoCal denizens

>> No.6523976
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6523976

>local bookstores are filled with mallrat types and hipsters
The instore cafe at Elliot Bay Books really doesn't help with the non-reader infestation, but it's just the nature of living in this heap of a city.
My favorite in the state's got to be Banana Books in Long Beach, Washington. A sweet older couple opened it up with their retirement funds and live out of the attic. I gave them good business and in return the woman who manned the counter would sell me boxes of unsellable surplus stock (too beaten up, at risk of falling to pieces) for $10 a crate.
>>6522897
+1 for bookstore cats

>> No.6523979

www.barnesandnoble.com

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In one of the oldest street of the city there are a lot of used bookstores, but i love this one is less messy and there a better selection than the others.

>and there is a qt there

>> No.6524015

>>6522885
>>6522887


Please fucking die.

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>>6524008
>tfw taking pictures of a chubby shelf stocker with my phone when she turns around and happens to see me
>look at shelf for a moment
>choke up and say"I-I was taking pictures of the Discreet Math textbooks for my class"
>she grins back, "Of course!" and walks away beaming
She knew. She has to have known.

>>6524015
Come on now, anon. Don't pretend that you're macho on an internet anime message board.
Who's your favorite spice girl? You can tell me.
Mine's Posh Spice.

>> No.6524048

>>6524033
she is my waifu, don't touch her!

>iktf

>> No.6524055
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>>6524033
I just went to a bookstore where a cutie was working. She was wearing a green dress that stretched down to her knees. She had to check the stock on a shelf near where I was standing. The row was so narrow and she smiled as she said she was sorry that she needed to check the shelf. It was the closest I've been to a woman in almost a year.

>> No.6524060

>>6524033
scary spice master race you better step the fuck up

>> No.6524084

Amazon.co.uk

>> No.6524085

>>6524033
Go back and ask to take another picture of their Discreet Math textbooks

>> No.6524108

>Left Hand Bookstore closed

>> No.6524111

>>6521833
>tfw living in shitty country in Europe
>tfw if you ask about philosophy section you are showed only esoteric literature
>tfw no classics to buy so I would have to import them which is expensive
>tfw only solution is ereader
>tfw if I would not understand english I could only read shitty popular books translated into shittier versions than they already were

>> No.6524114

>>6524111
bookdepository, my europoor friend.

>> No.6524116
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>>6524111
You should be able to fetch most philosophy (the one that has been translated into your language, at least) from your local library.

>> No.6524123

>>6524116
good luck trying to find a meaningful translation of philosophy to slovak language

Its not possible pepe

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>>6524123
you can always read Zizek :^)

>> No.6524142

>>6521833

I think I've been here. Is this in some Chicago mall?

>> No.6524155
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6524155

>>6524132
Well, I have heard that all Balkan languages are basically the same. Has Zizek, however, ever written a book in Slovenian?

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6524159

Preddy gud overall. It's mostly an used bookstore, but they have some new ones as well. It's rather small, so even though there's a wide variety of stuff there you probably won't find everything. Still comfy to browse through.

>> No.6524160

>>6524155
It wouldnt matter because Slovakia is not Slovenia

>> No.6524181

>>6524160
But there is mutual intelligibility, isn't there?

>> No.6524188

>>6524181
not really, Slovakia is near Czech, you dont have to learn Czech to understand them if you are Slovak but Slovenia is different

>> No.6524191
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anyone?

>> No.6524205 [DELETED] 
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6524205

There is only one local bookstore here besides B&N. It's The Open Book, pretty meh but I'm glad it exists. Plus it's manager is this insanely pretty asian girl, and I got to talk about DFW with this other cashier girl which was pretty cool.

Also their small section of literature is surprisingly decent.

>> No.6524213
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6524213

There is only one local bookstore here besides B&N. It's The Open Book, pretty meh but I'm glad it exists. Plus its manager is this insanely pretty asian girl, and I got to talk about DFW with this other cashier girl which was pretty cool.

Also their small section of literature is surprisingly decent.

>> No.6524241
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I love to go there, it is a lovely place

>> No.6524243 [DELETED] 
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Russell Books, but I'm on the mainland right now ..

>> No.6524250
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6524250

Russell Books, but I'm on the mainland right now ..

>> No.6524252

>>6524191
Wooh! Wellington!

>> No.6524317

>>6522074
Get yourself to Alnwick lad. This place has some cracking stuff, just a shame it stinks.

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>>6524317
Forgot pic

>> No.6524689

>>6524015

>there are people who don't know how surprisingly amazing the first 3 seasons of Gilmore Girls are
>there are people who don't know Rory is the most patrician tv reader character of all-time
>there are people who can't accept joy

>> No.6524700

>>6524084

This

>> No.6524725
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6524725

>probably not actually a million books
Archive Fine Books. Brisbane, QLD

>> No.6524733

>>6524033
post the pic what the fuck

>> No.6524740

>>6524733
second

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6524792

john k king books is the fucking best

>> No.6524805

>>6522872
That store is so fking far away. I never made up there while I lived in DC.

>> No.6524818

>>6524250
Wtf does mainland mean when the bookstore is in fact located on the mainland? Mainland US?

>> No.6524855
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6524855

Haslam's in St. Petersburg Florida isn't really close to me at all and yet it remains my favorite bookstore in 'the area'.

>> No.6524868

>>6524342
>>6524317

I've been wanting to visit there and I might this summer, only live about 30 or so minutes away from it apparently by train.

Good selection? I saw that they had a first edition of Mason & Dixon when I checked their stocks online once for £10.

>> No.6524904

Doesn't look incredible yet it is.

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>>6524904
*sighhhhhhhhhhh*

>> No.6525113

>>6524818
Mainland Vancouver, the stores' on Vancouver Island. Don't know where you got mainland USA from. I guess there's another Russell, but surely it doesn't look the same? The picture is Victoria.

>> No.6525129
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6525129

Tfw youll never meet a bookish qt at a comfy bookstore

>> No.6525910

>>6524241
Where's that?

>> No.6525936

strand is pretty good. probably the best bookplace I've been in.

>> No.6525965

>>6525936
Its just fucking packed all the time. But yeah

>> No.6525982
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>>6521833

Cheap Thrills in Montreal is god tier

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>>6521833

for anyone in NJ, the Montclair Book Center is also a must visit

>> No.6526008

>>6525990
seconded, great place, except the owner's actually do have a bathroom but don't let you use it.

>> No.6526023

>>6524792
I'm guessing not all floors are functional bookstore, right?

>> No.6526024

Half price bookstore is the shit

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>>6526023
nope all 4 floors are full and open to the public

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEALEiSiSCc

the only part public can get to is small back room full of extremely rare books that you need a credit check to see

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>> No.6526339

>>6526336
This is what happened to my local Borders :(

>> No.6526342

>>6522083

They must be really fucked when it rains out of nowhere

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6526348

>Not going to based Dawn Treader

I pity the plebs

>> No.6526353

i love my barnes and noble that's in a black area and has awesome looking trashy ghetto crime and romance stuff in the section with balzac and proust

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>>6521833
Goodwill/value village

>> No.6526382

>>6526348
u punk meet me in front of tomukun and get wrecked

>> No.6526401

>>6526348
next time i see u i will ride my motorcycle through the window of tomukon and kick you're ass

>> No.6526416

>>6525910
El Ateneo, Buenes Aires, Argentina

>> No.6526460

>>6526401
>>6526382
Nigga ill shove the king tut statue up your ass, dont make me... smh

>> No.6526501

creating a bucket list of book shops and cafes to visit.

Please list some more good ones.

>> No.6526518

The Toronto Public Library

>> No.6526524

I usually go to secondhand or chapters. 90% of the books I read come from the library of ebook form though.

>> No.6526532

>>6525129
talking to qt's at bookstores is like talking to them on public transportation, you just don't do it because you feel like you will be bothering them

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6526579

No good pics of the local bookstore i frequent, so instead I'll post my favorite of the bookstores of been to, Commonwealth bookstore in downtown Boston.

1/2

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>>6526579
and here's one inside

>> No.6526671

My favorite Sacramento bookstore, although not the one that I go to most (That's a tie between the local thrift store and Colton Books in Folsom, CA). Great staff who really love literature, plenty of used and new books, great atmosphere for just sitting and reading, and good selection of all different types of books, from classics to romance novels.

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>>6526671
Aaand I forgot the image. Whoops

>> No.6526681

>>6526672
but rain

>> No.6526687

>>6522898
Ballsy move

>> No.6526688

>>6526681
lol take a closer look at that picture

>> No.6526698

>>6526360
Why do you support corporations which take advantage of the poor and make wealthy their executives while exploiting the masses under the guise of helping the impoverished?

>> No.6526717

>>6526687
Muck's stalker emerges

>> No.6526811
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Edinburgh

>> No.6526963

>>6526681
>>6526688
Sorry if the crop is a little misleading; all the books are indoors, thankfully. However with the drought we've been having it's not likely to rain regardless!

>> No.6526997

>>6526024
This guy knows what's up