Bookstores in Seattle

Bookstores

• The University Bookstore has an excellent selection of textbooks, "regular" books, and other items (such as UW clothing). Save your receipts, because students, faculty, and staff get about 10% back after turning them back in at the end of the year.

• Barnes and Noble in U-Village is incredibly huge (the building used to be a department store).

• Elliot Bay Book Company downtown has a great atmosphere, with a cozy cafe in the basement.

• The U-District has several used bookstores, including Magus on 42nd.

• The Seattle Public Library has a huge semiannual sale in the Fall and Spring where books are solds for 50 cents to a dollar a piece. It fills an entire warehouse in the former Sandpoint Naval Station.

• Twice Sold Tales is a used bookstore with three locations and many cats. It's cute but be warned that its U. District location, at least, sticks obnoxious 1.5-inch plastic RFID tags on the pages of every one of its books. Sometimes they put the tag over printed areas, so you have to remove it to read the book. I wouldn't recommend buying anything from them until they change their anti-theft technology, at least not without inspecting beforehand to make sure that the RFID tag is in a conveniently removable location.