Comments on: Interesting/Random Exhibit in Building For Lease

By: DC_Chica

DC_Chica — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:10:15 +0000

Thanks for the suggestions — I wasn’t thinking about used bookstores when I posted, but I’ve been to most of the places you mentioned. Used books probably fit my budget better these days anyway! fyi, Chapters is no longer where it used to be (I walked by there just the other day), according to their website their inventory is in storage while they look for a new location to lease.

By: IMGoph

IMGoph — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:26:24 +0000

dc_chica: there are the bookstores at the colleges (american, catholic, gallaudet, georgetown, GW, trinity, howard), capitol hill books, the bookstore at busboys and poets, second story books, idle times books, chapters, bridge street books, the brian mackenzie infoshop, the world bank bookstore, and a few other little places.

plenty of specialty stuff out there other than the big ones you’ve heard of.

By: DC_Chica

DC_Chica — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:58:36 +0000

darn – I had heard Candida was a neat bookstore and figured I would eventually check it out — it’s closed? What locally-owned bookstores are left in DC other than Kramerbooks and Politics and Prose?

By: CB

CB — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:37:52 +0000

Thanks for re-opening old wounds.

Man, I miss Candida’s World of Books. Seeing the place gutted and reduced to serving as a glorified knick-knack case is just depressing.