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Inspiring Bookstores

First Posted: 05/16/11 03:45 PM ET Updated: 07/16/11 06:12 AM ET

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salon.com:

One of London's most beautiful shops of any kind, Daunt Books would be worth a visit just to soak up the streaming natural light emanating from the skylights and the illuminated Edwardian elegance.

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mmmmikkimac
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04:18 PM on 05/18/2011
Any one out there want to donate to a Traveling Book Worm Fund so I can go and visit these places to see what is so intriguing about them? And, once I get home, I can hire someone to sort out all my books with the leftover money! I am serious and in need of help. I have hundreds of books I haven't read yet and keep buying more and adding to the pile. This trip would be a book lovers dream - especially London, Paris, Cairo, and foreign ports of call.
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proggirl
college teacher, artist, writer
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09:11 PM on 05/16/2011
Not too many years ago, there was a great used book store in south Minneapolis called Station 17 Books. Run by a retired teacher, it was the fulfillment of his dream to have a bookstore in an refurbished firehouse, complete with pole.
You'd sit and chat books with him while you all had tea and cookies. Beautiful store and a great experience.
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ehorth
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06:25 PM on 05/16/2011
In memoriam:
A great little bookstore founded by an "emigre" couple from New York in the 1949 was the Los Artesanos Book Store in Las Vegas, New Mexico - it was a rabbit warren of rooms filled with a large collection of books related to the American West - histories, novels, etc. The building was an 1890's structure built in the railroad heyday of the town. Unfortunately Joe Stein died a few years back and his wife, Diana, sold the store before moving to be with family. They had clients from all over the country and the world - they still used index cards to catalog the information and typewriter to send their letters. The proprietors were an interesting combination of early New York sophistication and western aficionado who came out to New Mexico in the same era as the painters and writers who were populating Taos and Santa Fe. They are missed.
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Indigo1941
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05:08 PM on 05/16/2011
I'm tempted to put them all on my bucket list. I've been bewitched in City Lights in San Francisco. I'll have to do better. I want to see King's Books in Detroit. That's awesome! But . . . I'm not giving up my Nook Color. Oh, no!
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