Book shopping in Venice
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Libreria Internazionale Marco Polo
Hunt for anything from preloved novels in various languages to new books on variegated subjects. If you're interested in the way guidebooks used to be, this is the place to rummage for antique volumes on various locations in Italy and beyond. If it's contemporary guidebooks you want, head to the sister store, Libreria San Marco (041 522 63 43; Salizada San Lio, Castello 5469; 09:30-20:00 Mon-Sat, 11:00-19:00 Sun).
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Mare di Carta
Sailors, pirates and armchair seafarers should navigate their way to this canalside storefront, where you’ll find every maritime map and DIY boating aid needed for lagoon exploration, boat upkeep and spotting local sea life. If you’re considering rowing lessons or a sailboat excursion – and who doesn’t after a few days on the lagoon? – stop here first to check out the schedule of boating classes and trips.
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Mondadori
The city’s broadest selections of guidebooks and Italian literature are major draws at this multistorey literary megastore, run by one of Italy’s most prominent book chains (majority shareholders are the Finninvest group, a Berlusconi family venture). Check for upcoming author events, and take your must-read-now novel to the hip Bacaro.
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Solaris
The plot thickens at Venice’s landmark bookstore for comics, mysteries, and science fiction. The tiny store is packed with DVDs, books, and periodicals with a back wall that’s one big curved bookcase, and there’s an entire section just for Corto Maltese, the detective graphic novel set in Venice by Italian comics master Hugo Pratt.
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Questoequeo
Serve up some Venetian architecture with dessert, on cake plates painted with Gothic rosettes worthy of a Grand Canal balcony. Ceramic artisan Martina Purisiol has developed a distinctive marbling effect and colour gradations that echo San Marco’s inlaid marble floors, and will do your cooking proud.
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Libreria Studium
Consult bibliophile staff for worthy vacation reads, page-turning Venetian history, and top picks from shelves groaning under the weight of Italian cookbooks. Many titles are available in English and French, and there’s a respectably vast Lonely Planet section (not that we’re biased).
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Legatoria Polliero
Here is a traditional exponent of the art of Venetian bookbinding with (and without) marbled paper. You barely have room to stand when you penetrate this den, with reams of leather-bound books, paper-bound folders and all sorts of other stationery piled haphazardly to the rafters.
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Editore Filippi
For more than a century, the Filippi family has printed all manner of books on Venice and stocked plenty more. They remain the point of reference for academics and aficionados alike. Another branch of the family runs a smaller store a stone's throw away (Calle Casselleria 5784).
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Librairie Française
Voulez-vous vos livres en français? Here you will find everything from the latest bestsellers of Gallic literature to tomes on most subjects Venetian - all of it in French.
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Giunti al Punto
Late hours, decent paperbacks in several languages, useful cookbooks and maps of Venice make this a handy outlet for information and vacation reading.
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Libreria San Marco
Sister store of Libreria Internazionale Marco Polo, selling contemporary guidebooks.
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