Tuesday Thinger: Favourite Bookstore
Today’s question: Favorite bookstores. What’s your favorite bookstore? Is it an online store or a bricks-and-mortar store? How often do you go book shopping? Is your favorite bookstore (or bookstores) listed as a favorite in LT? Do you attend events at local bookstores? Do you use LT to find events?
Well, I’ve mentioned it before, but my favourite bookshop is more for the location than the shop itself (which it a perfectly serviceable Waterstones) but the building (actually called The Wool Exchange) is nothing short of magnificent and a reminder of when Bradford was one of the main players in the world, during the industrial revolution.
It’s a lovely place to spend time, just browsing the shelves (and avoiding the 3 for 2 offers!). There is also a Starbucks on the mezzanine floor, which looks out over the shelves, or out through the huge glass window so you can sit and people watch.
I, don’t really use the “local” feature on Librarything much, perhaps I should!
Check out some pictures I found on flickr, of The Wool Exchange to see what I mean about the place!
photo credit: Agent Davidov
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Thats really beautiful, I love seeing historic buildings being used rather than torn down/renovated to make way for newer, more modern structures.
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Wonderful! I’ll definitely have to go there the next time my husband and I are in the UK. I’ve been to Bradford twice, both times to visit Bolling Hall, and although I wasn’t fond of the traffic in the city centre, I did like Bradford.
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Wow looks great! I wish there were more places like it
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That is an amazing store. There’s definitely nothing like that around my town. If there was I’d probably never leave. Good books in such a beautiful building would be too much of a draw.
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