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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Okay, I have time to write a longer response. Secondhand bookstores are going the way of retail brick and mortar book stores. Have you noticed that Chapters is closing stores and turning most of the ones left into gift shops. Most secondhand bookstores were barely viable in the first place - a dingy basement with unorganized stacks of books, a cat sleeping in the corner, and a grouchy, chainsmoking proprietor. They had a certain charm, but they didn't survive even the beginning of the transition to e-books.
Fair's Fair is still around because they have properly organized stores and a shrewd business model. But even they're hurting. The just closed their Macleod Trail location. Still, between their Inglewood and Chinook locations, which are more warehouses than stores, you have a good chance of finding what you're looking for. Not many used bookstores anywhere have that kind of selection.
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I just had to laugh because I've been to a place EXACTLY how you described it. Right down the the grouch selling them.