Category: books

  • Oldest bookstore in the World – Livraria Bertrand, Lisbon

    Oldest bookstore in the World – Livraria Bertrand, Lisbon

    Continuing with my tour of the world’s bookstores … Livraria Bertrand at Rua Garrett 73 in Lisbon is the oldest and largest bookstore chain in Portugal. Since it was launched in 1732, the Bertrand Bookstore stayed open, and has thus entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest bookstore in the world still in operation. The…

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  • Waterstones, Edinburgh West End

    Waterstones, Edinburgh West End

    Continuing with our bookstore tour … this one in Scotland The Waterstones at Edinburgh’s West End is one of four in the city. The four-floor bookshop is right at the heart of the city, opposite Edinburgh Castle, on the capital’s main shopping street; Princes St. They have “a large and inviting Children’s department, a robust…

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  • Bookstore Librairie, Biarritz

    Bookstore Librairie, Biarritz

    Another entry to our tour of bookstores around the world … We found this gem of a bookstore in Biarritz.  The bookstore is called “BOOKSTORE”. And to confirm the nature of its business, on the storefront below the name, it says “Librairie Bookstore”. It is understandable that this establishment at a French beach town is…

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  • Librerie Coop + Eataly, Bologna

    Librerie Coop + Eataly, Bologna

    In our bookstore tour of the world, we increasingly see the merger of bookselling with another retail concept – for example, the T-site in Daikanyama 代官山 in Tokyo and the Eslite Spectrum in Hong Kong – see our posts here and here. In Bologna, I (Chris) visited the Librerie Coop + Eataly Bologna – a…

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  • Libreria A. Nanni, Bologna, Italy

    Libreria A. Nanni, Bologna, Italy

    I was visiting Bologna last December. Bologna is famous not only for its pasta sauce and several other foods but also for its porticos. In total, there are over 45 km (28 miles) of arcades, some 38 in the city center. Bologna is officially the “City of Porticoes” following its nomination as a UNESCO World Heritage…

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  • Librairies, Rive Gauche, Paris – part 2

    Librairies, Rive Gauche, Paris – part 2

    Continuing from part 1 … as some of you may know, we have been putting up photos of bookstores from around the world. In addition to those posts that are linked in part 1, here are a few more that you can jump to: House of Books in Moscow, Alexandra in Budapest and the MIT…

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