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When I was a student at the University of Toronto, I would come into this academic bookstore looking for a single book and end up browsing for ages. It stocks mainly literary fiction, humanities, and social sciences. Works in translation are carefully selected.
This is a great place to find hard-to-find academic books, and I've had tremendous luck here. The staff are very helpful and friendly and their passion for what they do is very obvious. The one thing that is a bit of a pain is that you have to leave all your bags and stuff outside while you browse and shop, but it really is not *that* big a deal.
I have mixed feelings about them.
They've carried obscure books I needed for my classes, and they organize their shelves by class code to make it easy. They also seem to be cheaper than the UofT book store.
However, I needed a book for a class and my professor supposedly ordered enough for the entire class, but they were late getting the order in. So I kept checking back with them, because I...
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