What's the best bookstore you've ever been to?

El Ateneo, when I visited Buenos Aires.
I went there on the last day of my trip to spend all the local currency I had left.

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Scriveners, in Buxton.

It's a wonderful higgledy-piggledy mess of a shop spread over five floors, with old Victorian prints and curios covering every wall that isn't a bookshelf. In the cellar they have a little museum since the building has been a shop for over a century.

Even their website is charmingly archaic, proper web 1.0 glory: scrivenersbooks.co.uk/index.html

They do bookbinding for the few people who need it. Among my prizes from there was a 1921 copy of "Held by Chinese Brigands" by Charles Gilson since I have a love of Imperial adventure pulp.

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Many such cases

Nah Borders definitely used to have some large stores, it was pretty great. Really sad that they went out of business

There was a Half Price Books in Houston that I was quite fond of.
>located in a space that used to be a small department store, with lots of additions over the years
>multiple staircases to the second floor
>individual, small rooms with different genres
>always found winners, every time
It was closed last year over rent concerns I believe

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My favorite bookstore was a hole in the wall bookstore in Philadelphia, located on a small street, that was about a block from Rittenhouse Square.
Covid restrictions cut down foot traffic enough that the owners decided to finally call it quits and shut down.
The bookstore had been around since the 1960s, and had survived being essentially butt to butt with Borders for 15+ years, and them survived being a block from a three story Barnes & Noble for 20 years.
Now I need to find a new bookstore to peruse obscure architectural books.

God imagine living in that house in Boston in the 1800s in the winter. SOVL

Buxton* I mean duh

>higgledy-piggledy
>curios
>shop
>charmingly
Fucking anglos. Good post but man did I hate reading it

>I like Barnes and Noble

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COPE

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We've got this place called The Book Barn in Connecticut. It's truly fucking massive, it has multiple buildings spread across a couple different properties in the same town, all of which are right across the street from the boardwalk and a view of the ocean. You can easily spend an entire day browsing their collection. They've also got a bunch of cats that roam around. Great place to take a girl on a day trip with a legitimately good selection. If you're a New Englandfag and haven't been, you're missing out.

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As for Borders,
The first Philadelphia Borders was located in the building of a former mid sized luxury department store just off Rittenhouse Square.
It was two stories, and was almost always packed with people.
The staff were sometimes nice, and sometimes acted like frustrated overworked assholes working for a giant shitty corporation.
The store despite being somewhat cramped with people was Comfy though.
Then some fuckhead at Borders Corporate decided to move the Borders to Broad Street a block from the Phantom of the Opera Philadelphia City Hall.
The new space was large but awful.
The literature section was crammed into a too small poorly lit section of bookshelves on ground level, behind areas with greeting cards, wrapping paper, and random crap, and the cash registers.
I recall the literature section being crappier and smaller volume than at the older store.
There was then a really high escalator to get to a mezzanine section, that had just a coffee shop.
Then there was another high escalator to get to the other book area, that also had movies and CDs.
The book sections with historical, art, reference, children’s books, etc. were all arguably better and larger than at the former store, and you could look out high windows that might have been the equivalent of a 5th or 6th story onto the street, but the layout sort of sucked.
The DVDs from what I recall were over priced, as were the CDs, and the selection wasn’t great.
If you wanted to hang out for a couple jours it wasn’t bad, but for lit you had to carry all your stuff up to the top floor.
Eventually, the stock dwindled down a bit, and Borders went bankrupt.

The Borders was also diagonal actoss from a Tower Records/Movies/Books, that was usually better at choosing stock, and which had a much better shop layout.
Tower also went under and closed up shop in Philly after decades.
Tower’s original stores had been on South street split between a Tower Records, a Tower Records Classical, and a Tower books.

Barnes & Noble still persists on Rittenhouse Square in Philly.
It’s three stories, with a generally well stocked section of literature on the third floor,
Cafe and religion and Art Architectural on the second floor, and new releases, historical, and some other stuff on the ground floor.
Currently none of the escalators work so you have to climb them like stairs.
It started off with one non-functional escalator and progressed for the past year.

There are still Comfy used bookstores now such as BookTrader, which had to move from South Street due to high rent, but which is still overstuffed.

Americans don't use 'shop'?

We do, I don't think he's American.

>Americans don't use 'shop'?
American’s definitely use “Shop” usually interchangeably with “store”, but America is large, and there are routinely linguistic differences between different geographic areas and large cities.

>mfw the cool old bookstore that had floor to ceiling shelves and smelled like mold and old booms has condos put in above it and renovated to look like a gay millenial coffee shop

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They initially said it was done by white supremacists until that was received poorly. Uncle Edgar's was great too, but maybe they shouldn't have built a bookstore in fucking Minneapolis.

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*books jfc

Did they really try to blame whites? Why?

I like Macleod's Books in Vancouver. It's kino, pretty disorganized but packed with shelves and piles on piles of old/rare books. The owner is the go-to guy in the city when old collections of books need to be evaluated for sale, and he picks up a lot of cool stuff that way. Huge basement with even more stuff too.

Gandhi or El Pendulo in Mexico City. Mexican bookstores have way better selection than American ones. Dunno why they insist on shrink wrapping books though.

>Gandhi or El Pendulo in Mexico City. Mexican bookstores have way better selection than American ones. Dunno why they insist on shrink wrapping books though.
Maybe some people in Mexico who read books are hesitant about owning books whose pages have been fingered by average Mexicans?

Just read that our faggot fucking fire department is ordering the owner to reduce stock by 75% while searching for this picture. I hate people so much it's unreal.

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How would you know? Have you visited American bookstores? I mean we don't have pozzed, woke. racebait, SJW shit here as much as the Americans have but I'm not sure the selection is necessarily better.

Average Mexicans don't go to bookstores.

I live in the United States and often visit Mexico. I’ve visited bookstores in both countries. Simple as.

I find Mexican bookstores have less homogenous selection, more classics, and I can find authors I can seldom find in American bookstores like Barnes and Nobles or Half Price Books in your average Gandhi.

True, but those that do are lucky

Another Minneapolis resident here. It was a very common thing back then. "White supremacists" became the scapegoat for every problem that arose that summer whether or not they actually existed

The Armadillo's Pillow in Chicago. They were very friendly and had some hard to find editions. They make those clay heads you see at the top of the pic and I bought one last time I was there. Cool spot I'd go to with my GF at the time.

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it's decent, nothing special tho

a store in Bordeaux. cant remember the name

>Gandhi
Yea, I like that place. I can find all the Mishima available in Spanish over there.

There's a really nice little bookshop in London called Treadwells that specialises in occultism and fringe philosophy. It is really quaint.

But for more ordinary books I'd say Waterstones in Leeds. Massive assortment, three floors and a café.

Shut up you retarded gringo faggot nigger.

Local bookstores in university towns tend to be the best, albeit small. Not American, but when I visited there was a good used bookstore opposite Zabar's in NYC if I remember correctly.

In terms of chain bookstores Kinokuniya is king.

If you’re a fucking weeb or want to buy stationery supplies

i prefer the library.

Nicely written user.

kek are you Singaporean?

paperback books in melbourne cbd is very cozy

internationally the best i've been to is eslite in hong kong

Books a million was pretty nice

Rent free

Nah Sydney. The Kinokuniya here is pretty massive and has an enormous selection of fiction. In fact it often has a lot of the Yea Forums meme books like No Longer Human, Stoner, Journey to the End of the Night etc. right out on special display. Almost makes me think a Yea Forums user works there, but it's probably just that those books are popular. Anyway, might depend on the shop I guess, but it's the best chain book store in this city by a mile.

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Thanks for this. I'll have to check it out.

Powell's city of books in Portland OR. There was a shrink wrapped self published "book" called "how to evade taxes" selling for a hundred dollars. Also the only bookstore I've seen so far that had a section dedicated to works about translation, which I promptly cleared out entirely.