Monday, September 26, 2011

Book Place: BookBuyers

On a recent trip to Castro Street (the coolest part of Mountain View), following a satisfying hamburger lunch at new restaurant SteakOut, Paul and I did the usual rounds-- Red Rock Cafe, Books Inc. (Mountain View edition), and BookBuyers.

So, BookBuyers is basically the awesomest used bookstore in the South Bay.  Many a late-night hour I've spent in its shelves, continually separating from and reconvening with my equally bookish friends with separate interests: history, religion, martial arts, Judaica.  But it'd been a while since my last visit, so when I went this time I kinda re-fell in love with it.  I'm not gonna lie, it was quantity and not quality.  There's simply an impending avalanche of books stocking its shelves.  Books ready to burst forth.  I took a few pictures to illustrate the point.  And to implicitly (now, explicitly) advocate that you patronize.



Exquisite, no?  BTW, speaking of, check out my new Book Places page.  Will get bigger as I revisit all my book places and take iPhone pictures.
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6 comments:

  1. Trumpet Master PaulSeptember 26, 2011 at 10:19 PM

    I love this place! I am, of course, the one who always looks at the martial arts stuff. Where else can you find books on knife fighting like a spy? I mean, where the spies, and therefore knife fighters, look like they came straight out of a 50's TV show. That's a special place. Not to mention the wall of nerd, which I wish you took a picture of.

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  2. UnknownSeptember 29, 2011 at 1:19 PM

    I Love Beer's Books on S st in downtown Sac. My favorite used book store so far. Has really good deals through the Second Saturday months too.

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  3. UnknownSeptember 29, 2011 at 1:20 PM

    Oh! And I absolutely love Paperbackswap.com! Not a walk in store, but still just as awesome. :)

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  4. Liz MSeptember 29, 2011 at 3:00 PM

    Omigosh Sara, I was totally just trying to figure out who you were and then saw the part about Paperbackswap and remembered you told me you liked that and figured it out. Haha. Haven't been to Beer's Books, I will definitely have to try it! My favorite used bookstore in Sac is Time Tested Books in Midtown.

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  5. RaghavOctober 11, 2011 at 4:58 PM

    You know, I've been to this place dozens of times (I think I even spot an oblique mention of myself in this post) but I never knew it was called BookBuyers.

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  6. Liz MOctober 14, 2011 at 12:37 PM

    Hah!! Me neither! It was just kinda that cool used bookstore next to the other bookstore; probably doesn't help that the name's so generic. (And you are correct-- you know me, ever-oblique.)

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