EDIT:

will hawk this thread with jealously and interest as i have no local bookstores, and a poor library.

cheap dime novels in the gas station is all the literature i can buy, unless i buy from the church library.

>>1883509
also:

now nobody else post in this thread so i can say i've been to all the stores itt! except for that gas station!

>>1883506
anything against an ebook reader?

I once spent a few hours in my local bookshop arguing world politics with the fat girl that works behind the counter there.
That was an odd day.

this one appeared in the time traveler's wife. cool place with lots of character but kind of overrated as a bookstore i m o

>>1883514
Fancy

360,000 books stacked to the ceiling. I knock a pile over every time I visit. The worst part is that the owner often balances 10 or 20 books on one larger book sticking off the shelf, like in the red circle. Place is a death trap.

best used bookstore in the world and i live right around the corner

so hard to restrain myself from spending so much

it's small but really close to the downtown and mcgill so it gets a ton of really good books

sweet, sweet warehouse

>>1883560
ah yeah that's a great place, used to go all the time when studying at mcgill

>>1883560
in Montreal? Where is it??

>>1883582
Milton and City Councilors I think

This is a place near my campus on Bloor & Spadina and Bathrust in Toronto. They sell books, music, and videos.

They have other locations that I frequent at Yonge & Dundas and Yonge & Eglinton. There's a 4th place on Queen W & John but I don't really go there.

I'll post an interior shot as well.

This is obviously facing the entrance and the area behind it is your standard shelved set-up. There's also an upper level of more books and the basement is where the music and videos are.

>>1883646
>on Bloor & Spadina and Bathurst

I meant between, not on.

Since I made this stupid correction post here's a shot one of the other locations.

MacLeod's in downtown Vancouver is the bookstore of choice for me.

I'll also hit up ABC Comic Book Emporium on Broadway X Granville and Pulp Fiction on Broadway and Main. :)

>>1883506
Your situation is designed for ereaders. Get with it, son.

Since this thread popped up:

I'm thinking of applying for a job at Barnes & Noble. Anyone have experience working at a bookstore before? Stories? Advice? Just curious what it's like working in that environment.

>>1883683
In Canadaland at Indigo, the key for getting employed is to emphasize that you're outgoing, sociable and good with people. Play up the fact that you'd do anything for the customer and then throw in that you also read a decent amount and are pretty familiar with a wide variety of different books.

The job itself is really easy.

>>1883495

The Harvard Bookstore fucking sucks. No fucking chairs to sit in. Pretentious hipsters everywhere.

The Baltimore Book Thing is a few blocks east of where I live. Free books ripe for the taking. I got 25 last Sunday, and will be going back again next Saturday.

http://www.bookthing.org/

>>1883683
Play up the people/social skills. You are trying to get a job as a book salesman. They will only hire you if the manager thinks you will sell them more books than other candidates.

Talk about how convincing you are (lie if you need to), how you'd pretty much be able to package air and sell it. OK that last part was me being facetious, don't actually say that. Let it slip that you love starting conversations with strangers.

>>1884170
JHUfag?

>>1884177
Yeah. Cogsci major. You?

I don't have any of the inside. It's a pretty neat place, though.

harvard represent itt

There's this old book store (that is, it's a store that sells old books) just over the NJ/NY border up near High Point that's pretty awesome. I don't think it has a name since it just says "OLD BOOKS" on the front of the building.

>>1884189

oh i just live here, in Canton.

El Ateneo, in Buenos Aires.

>Rochester, UK
Baggins Book Bazaar, the largest second hand bookshop in England.
Starts off as a tiny shop front on the high street but extends the whole way through the back of the high street and into a giant building out the back.

I need to visit it more.

I kind of live in the boonies and there's only one of those little Borders in a mall about 45 minutes away, but every once in a while I'll go out on a day long journey to the Book Barn.

It's in Niantic, CT and is made up of one main area and two downtown book stores. According to their site they have around 500,000 books.

Also I found out not that long ago that it's actually owned by my mother's cousin which is kind of cool I guess

I am mad gelatinous.

>>1884170
Ahh I miss Baltimore. My favourite book stores were Book Thing and Ukazoo.

Now my favourite is the Chaucer Bookshop in Canterbury.

Foyles

>>1884143
That's not the Harvard Book Store. That's the Harvard COOP, which has plenty of seating on the second floor.

Not really local (it's a bit of a walk), but I'd much rather use this than my shitty, local Barnes & Noble.

More Harvard Square book stores?

Carturesti bookstore (Brasov, Romania)

lotta
harvard itt

freshman in wigglesworth

where my homies at

>>1885000
Incoming frosh? Or are you gonna be a sophomore once semester starts?

>>1884732
Salut!

I'll take a picture of it tomorrow.

>>1883495
Hey I shoplifted Dubliners from there.

Doesn't have as much character as some of the other bookstores posted, but for a town in the south it's always charmingly packed.

McKay Used Books; Knoxville, TN

Caveat Emptor
(Bloomington, Indiana)

>>1883495
Why would you post the Coop instead of Harvard Bookstore?

Ok, question for all you actual Harvard students. I had just recently taken a trip up to Boston and, during said trip, visited Cambridge. Students should be out for the summer but there was a ridiculous amount of twenty-something hipsters roaming Cambridge. Are all these hipsters actual Harvard students or just kids trying to garner some sort of intelligence-by-association by roaming the town?

>>1885340

Kinda hard to tell, but it is quite possible. Summer classes started yesterday, so it is quite possible they are actually students.

Go to 1369 for coffee.

>>1885318
Because I rarely go to the Harvard Book Store. I go to the Coop all the time for textbooks and such. (Yes I know it's overpriced...)

>>1885340
Harvard Square is a huge hangout spot, there are always lots of non-students there hanging out, visiting the shops and restaurants, etc.

>>1883531
i love that there are two different harvard bookstores in this thread and the charity used bookstore down the block from my work is what garners an "oh you fancy, huh?"

>>1885432
Haha true

Hmm...is /lit/ more US-centric than other boards? Usually threads like this on other boards gets a lot of non-US replies. In this thread so far there's been only one non-US book store posted so far I think.

This, sadly. I don't have any bookstore closer to me, or one that I have found besides Borders and Barnes and Nobles. And I have looked. I just can't find any.

shit's not cash per se but pretty good

>>1887921
Amerika is best country

in France, Shakespeare and Company is where I used to hang out on most days, and then I'd head down to Les Deux Magots to get a drink, and then I'd go home to my clear well lit place with a skylight in the attic.

winning.

>>1887955
or of course...

>>1883559
Closest place is a used book which is exactly like that.

Brewer Bookstore. Canton, NY.

It's the one at my school. The one's at home are just Border's and Barnes and Noble.

Hipsters. Hipsters everywhere.

>>1887981

shittiest staff ever. fuck that over-rated dump

>>1887996

they're selection is pretty good. i don't think i've ever had a negative interaction with the staff, however. maybe they think i'm cool and you're a loser.

>>1887921
Two Canadians posted their local bookstores (Montreal and Toronto).

>>1888003
Canada is just a copycat America.

>>1888000

staff detected...also, their selection is no better than, say, the Union Square Barnes & Noble. Matter fact, it's worse.

>>1888010
Canada is an indie America

>>1883560
fuck the word. cheap thrills all the way.

yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh nigger

mfw people have bad-ass unique little used bookstores and all I have is a Barnes and Noble

>>1888025
Pr'y much.

>>1883654
>>1883648
>>1883646
>mfw I live 5 minutes away from here

>>1888011
>heir selection is no better than, say, the Union Square Barnes & Noble.

do you only read contemporary popular fiction and fantasy/sci-fi? because yes, both stores will have that stuff. but the strand has way way more obscure and hard-to-find works.

no pictures but there's one that just opened in my town where there used to be an army surplus store. The canopy over the door of the shop is made of used books (which are pretty fucked to shit now after rains been at them). They have a sofa and coffee machine and cakes and the entire tiny little place is just all kinds of books piled up everywhere. Tey ven have a neat few shelves of first edition penguin classics as well as super rare pulp fiction with crazy covers and stuff.

This is a store called Bookman's Corner I used to stop into on the reg when a friend of mine was living a couple of blocks away. It is the most poorly-organized, cramped, and inaccessible bookstore I have ever seen in my life. Each shelf is crowded a couple of rows deep with piles of books stacked up with no rhyme or reason or overtures towards alphabetization. Basically it comes off like an 85-year-old hoarder died and the only thing they did to turn his old apartment into a store was replace his dead body with a cash register. The attached image is taken from a news article about their brand-new policy of not stacking books directly on the floor anymore because they were losing too much stock to slushy boots in winter. The last time I was in there I was drunk in mid-afternoon and ended up buying a bunch of Mad Magazine Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions paperback collections.

It seems as if you all aren't so enthusiastic about Barnes and Noble, but I really do like mine. Probably because I grew up in it, though. ...It's like a home away from home for me.

>>1888267
I had a ton of affection for the various Borders stores of my youth, disgusting piss-glazed bathrooms and all, but they all shut down this year. The Barnes & Noble where I used to fart around after piano lessons in grade school was relocated a of couple years ago, too. le sob~

>>1888267
>Barnes and Noble
>I grew up in it

god i hate late capitalism

Ugh. You know what we have... a borders and a used book store downtown that charges $10+ for a used book with a broken spine.

I live in a town that grew/thrives around a university, you'd think we'd have better options.

>>1888280
Which university?

>>1888280
My home-town (Boardman, OH) used to have a Barnes and Noble and a Little Professors. The Little Professor's was like 2 blocks away from my house and was the only thing that kept me interested in school/education. Unfortunately, it went out of business when I was like 9.

The Barnes and Noble didn't have a lot of variety, in my opinion... and the children's section was far too big. I still shopped there though because my parents were afraid of buying things on-line.

>>1888284
Iowa State University

>>1888290
Why would a bookstore plunk itself in Ames when a better and more prestigious university is only an hour or so away in Iowa City?

>>1888304
>Iowa State versus U of Iowa

LOL

>>1888491
>Implying that the University of Iowa is a mecca of literature and the Harvard of writing programs.

>>1888495
I mean
>is not

pictured: the owner of my favored local used bookstore bein a boss; shelves made of actual goddamn trees

not pictured: border collie for petting purposes; wood stove; my $9 in store credit right now

>>1888495
Harvard is the Harvard of writing programs.

>>1888513
Actually, no it's not.

The University of Iowa Writers' Workshop is the most-renowned program for poetry and fiction writing, and their Nonfiction Writing Program is the most renowned as well, even though it's not part of the workshop.

Confirmed for not knowing what you're talking about.

http://www.pw.org/content/2011_mfa_rankings_the_top_fifty_0?cmnt_all=1

>>1888543
You are going to need a lot more than a silly ranking to prove that UofI's programs produce better writers than Harvard's.

>>1888555
You really don't know anything about creative writing, do you?

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

I don't even think Harvard as a program at the graduate or undergraduate level.

>>1888555
jeezus beezus

confirmed for not knowing what you're talking about, indeed

>>1888555
>Poets and Writers
>silly ranking
>not realizing I said "is the Harvard of programs" not "produces better writers than Harvard."

Either way, it's a highly prestigious program whose specialty is producing people who write literature, not people who write essays analyzing literature.

>>1888576
>>1888568
It's pretty silly to talk about the merits of some writing program, rather than the merits of the writers produced by the respective schools.

>>1888578
>>1888578
Well, fine:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Iowa_Writers%27_Workshop_people

>>1888578
This is damage control.

The original comment about the program's notability was in response to a dismissal of its merit.

A city nearby has Books a Million...never been there though.

>>1888589
Only after it emerged that there has been a divergence of what constitutes the merits of a program.

See >>1888576

>>1888603
How was there a divergence? I've been talking about the strength of the program as a program the entire time.

The only reason I gave a list of alumni is becaase I was basically asked for it.

Anyway this is a dumb discussion because Iowa is inarguably the most prestigious, notable writing program in the United States.

You'll note that I'm not giving a value judgment on the program itself in this statement. I am merely referring to the esteem in which it is held.