Book shopping in Montréal
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Cheap Thrills
Montréal's oldest used CD and cassette shop is so full you can hardly swing a cat. The selection covers everything from electronica, noise and indie-rock to jazz, blues and R&B, including hard-to-find imports. Upstairs you can snap up new recordings usually several dollars below prices elsewhere, and there's a decent collection of paperbacks.
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Librissime
It bills itself as more than just a bookstore, and it’s right, there really is no other place like this in the city. Gorgeous books here are imported from all over the world including Italy and India and white gloves are laid on the displays for you to don before touching the tomes, including giant-sized books that cost upwards of $1000.
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Librairie Olivieri
A splendid place to while away a few hours is the indie bookstore Librairie Olivieri at the Universite Harvard de Montréal, which also has an excellent bistro serving poached salmon, magret de canard (duck breast) and changing daily specials.
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Odyssey Books
Odyssey has soft- and hardcover books as well as a good classical and jazz CD selection. Strong in mystery, literature, jazz, philosophy, history, art and cookbooks, and recent arrivals have a special section so you can check out the latest gems.
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Librairie Astro
Rollicking wit and helpful service are as ubiquitous as the collectible comics, books, cards and CDs stocked at this little family-run shop. They know their customers by name and will email you if they come across something you might like.
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1.000.000 Comix
This living archive could document the history of the comic book. Marvel and DC of course but also left-field titles like Crumb and Tom of Finland. It also does a sideline in toys, T-shirts and cards.
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Drawn & Quarterly
The flagship store of this cult independent comic-book and graphic-novel publisher has become somewhat of a local literary haven. Cool book launches take place here, and the quaint little shop sells all sorts of reading matter.
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Librairie Michel Fortin
A mecca for every foreign-language student and linguist freak in town. You can find books, cassettes or novels on just about every language in the world from Thai to Basque to Georgian.
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