Everyone’s got a favourite bookstore in this city. Whether it’s a second hand bookstore, boutique specialist or perhaps somewhere that’s just easily accessible to you.
What do you reckon is Brisbane’s best bookstore, and why do you love it so much?
The best of almost everything in Brisbane, as voted by locals
Everyone’s got a favourite bookstore in this city. Whether it’s a second hand bookstore, boutique specialist or perhaps somewhere that’s just easily accessible to you.
What do you reckon is Brisbane’s best bookstore, and why do you love it so much?
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McGill’s downtown. They have a great selection of business books, which is my main area of interest. So I can often find books there that I can’t get elsewhere. On top of that, I think that they are a nice model of how a bookstore can survive in the world of amazon – specialise in something and do it better than anyone else does. I like Pulp Fiction for similar reasons.
Although officallly not a book store my Fav bookstore in Brisbane is any of the local libraries. Where else can you pick up the lastest books for free or if you have to put a book on hold it only costs 80 cents? Yes you don’t get to keep the books but hey at least it doesn’t hurt my hip pocket money wise.
+1 for the libraries.
Also Archives Fine Books on Charlotte Street. Huge number of second hand books. Like a library, but you can keep the books :)
It’s cliche but I can spend hours in Borders on the corner of Elizabeth St and Albert St in the city.
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Definitely the libraries. Did you know there are 32 of them in Brisbane, plus a mobile library? Why pay for books when you can borrow ‘em for nothing?
My favourite bookstore is the Annerley Community Bookshop at 478 Ipswich Road in Annerley.It’s Australia’s only no-for-profit second hand bookshop. As well as providing affordable books, it also offers opportunities to volunteer and become absorbed in the world of books that none of the commercial bookstores can offer.
Avid Reader in West End :)
The Really Good Book Shop at Hillcrest Browns Plains. Absolutely beats anything else hands down. It is the most awesome of awesome bookshops anywhere. You have to go there.
A few of those on this list have already shut down as of July 2010, perhaps supporting the government minister’s line that in five years bookstores will be as dead as the dodo. In the meantime, I would rate Avid in West End, Pulp Fiction in the Brisbane CBD and Mary Ryan’s on Park Road, Milton. Used to like McGills but they are closing sadly, and was also a fan of Borders.
Sorry meant July 2011 – long day in the office…