What is your favorite Book Store?

[WI_DEM]

There is a store on the Capital Square in Madison, Wisconsin that has tens of thousands of used books called, Shakespheres, and the only thing wrong with it is the lighting (needs better lighting) but it has been there for years and you can find books that have long been out of print and on every subject imaginable. If you are a book lover and ever come to Madison--this is the place to go.

[jsw_81]

1. Elliot Bay Book Company in downtown Seattle

It's in an old brick building from the 1890's Gold Rush era and has every book you can imagine.

[flamingyouth]

9. I love Elliott Bay

I could spend hours and hours in there. :D

[greatauntoftriplets]

19. When I visited last fall,

I really like Horizon Books on Capitol Hill.

Chicago years ago had a store called Stuart Brent. there was a real Stuart Brent and he ran the place for many years. It was such an old-fashioned place that in the 1970s you could run an open charge account there. Just say put it on my charge <insert name> and you received a bill for it.

[AverageJoe]

2. I guess I have three faves

1. Joseph-Beth Booksellers of Lexington, KY
2. Sqecial Media of Lexington, KY
3. Square Books of Oxford, Mississippi

I've been to City Lights in San Francisco a time or two, and it's great, but I don't want to count tourist visits. The three above are like home to me.

[Florida_Geek]

3. I loved Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Lexington

I have not been there in years, but when Lexmark was IBM I was :)

I did like the lady with the samples of wine sometimes at nite. :toast:

[AverageJoe]

5. Joseph-Beth rules!

I've not spent much time in Lexington in the last 10 years or so, but I used to go to Joseph-Beth all the time. I could easily wander their aisles for three or four hours and never even think about getting bored.

What a great, great bookstore.

[Florida_Geek]

10. And they had lots of chairs

I like looking at books on Photography, and they had a bench to sit and read.

The only downside to them is their name, the first time I looked them up in the phone book I almost did not go because it sounded like a Christian Bookstore.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

16. Joseph-Beth is the best in Cincinnati, too, for new books.

They also have a real good magazine section. I can actually find "Stern" and
"Spiegel" there.

[utopian]

23. Great store

I went there a lot when I lived in Lexington.

[gyopsy]

4. Borders

They've got books and loads of other things as well. Of course, on my budget, the library is always the better bet.

[democracyindanger]

6. Powell's Bookstore

Portland, Oregon. The Mother of All Bookstores. Takes up two floors of an entire city block.

[geniph]

11. Powell's RULES

I will not buy books online from anywhere else. And they deserve a visit anytime you're near Portland. Powell's is the BEST.

[utopian]

24. Absolutely the best bookstore I've ever seen

[PragMantisT]

7. Dickson Street Book Shop - Fayetteville, Arkansas

hundreds of thousands of used books
NPR on the radio
no chairs but you can sit on the floor

[northzax]

8. well I've always been a big fan

of shakespeare and company...but it's a long flight to paris to buy books...

[fudge stripe cookays]

22. Are you any closer to Dallas? We have one in the Galleria.

[Supormom]

12. Amazon Bookstore in Minneapolis

The first feminist bookstore in North America.

[fudge stripe cookays]

13. Half-Price Books

The flagship store on NW Highway @ Shady Brook. They have a coffee house, poetry readings, and tons upon tons of new and used books, gifts, and music. It's my home away from home.

HPB is one of the things Dallas can REALLY be proud of. It was started here in the 1970s, and now they're everywhere. But still very cozy and family-owned. (The original owner's daughter, Boots, is now in charge)

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

15. Half-Priced is a chain..theres one in Dayton.

...lots of good military history, and a respectable art department, too.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

14. Seminar Co-Op in Chicago, Carmichaels in Louisville, &

Beers and Time Tested Books in Sacramento (these are used bookstores, tho Beers sells new titles too).

Duttenhoffers & Ohio Bookshop in Cincy are good used bookstores.

Joeseph-Beth in Cincy is good too...a new bookstore.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

17. Prairie Avenue Books in Chicago, Wexner Center store in Cols

...these are good speciality bookstores for people into architecture, planning, & design.

[Duncan Grant]

18. City Lights Bookstore, of course!

[Kenneth ken]

20. Tattered Cover - Cherry Creek

[Bertha Venation]

21. I used to like Different Drummer in Laguna Beach

and The Library in Long Beach (a coffee house with thousands of used books for sale cheap) but I left So. Cali. :(

Now it's Amazon & the twice-yearly book sale (to benefit a jr. high school) at work.

[northzax]

25. and furthermore, can't forget the Midnight Special

in Santa Monica, although I hear the new location isn't as funky. http://www.msbooks.com/