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Bookstore Locations(Online and Offline)

Broadly divided as follows
  1. Mangalore
  2. Bangalore
  3. Online

Mangalore


  1. Bookmark, Near Post Office, Hampankatta
    • Decent Collection of books, not very impressive and not very expansive. 
    • Would recommend only for the most mainstream purchases and for stationery purchase.
  2. Bookmark, Bharath Mall, Lalbagh
    • Good collection of books
    • Would recommend for a quick book pickup
  3. Sapna Book House, Mischief mall, Hampankatta
    • One of Mangalore's Best places for Book Hunting
    • Super expansive and through collection.
    • Also best recommended for academic books and reference books
    • Great selection of Toys, games, action figures, show pieces etc.
    • 10/10 would recommend
  4. School Book Company, Opposite Mischief Mall, Hampankatta
    • Not many good novels for sale.
    • Best place for stationery shopping, especially notebooks
  5. School Book Company, Car Street
    • If there was a heaven for academic shopping, it would be this place.
    • Even the most obscure author(academic) can be found here.
    • The novel collection here is less than impressive.
    • Would recommend only for mainstream titles
  6. Treasure Island
    • Secondhand lending and sale library
    • Great place for renting out Engineering and medical textbooks
    • The return situation though is less than pleasant
    • Would recommend for people who wouldn't mind renting books 
    • No Novels to look for here
  7. Book Palace, Surathkal
    • Secondhand Academic Books sale library
    • Purchase used books at 75% of MRP and Resell back to library for 50% the MRP
    • New Books almost always at 90% of MRP
    • Some Random novels can be found, usually at throwaway prices
    • 10/10 would recommend  for Engineering book shopping
  8. Readers Delight, Opposite KMC college, Hampankatta
    • Predominantly a lending library

Bangalore

  1. Blossom Book House, Church Street, MG Road
    • Best Bookstore in Bangalore
    • Sellers of both New and Secondhand books
    • Rare and old books can be found.
    • Personal Experience: In 2016, browsing in Blossom, I happened across a super rare copy of "The Silmarillion", First Edition, Printed in 1975, in almost mint condition. Sadly it was a book club copy, so not as valuable as a true first edition, but valuable nevertheless.
  2. Blossom Book House, Opposite Brik Oven,Church Street, MG Road
    • The Original Bookstore
    • Located a few 100 meters away from the second store
    • Same ambiance but double the books.
    • With enough luck you could find loads of old books, comics, novels
  3. BookWorm, Church Street, MG Road
    • Another Store in the vicinity of MG Road
    • Loads of old, leather bound, felt wrapped books to be found
    • Really good place to browse old, classic titles
  4. Sapna BookHouse Brigade Road
    • Great Ambiance, great collection
    • All book titles here are expansive. Expect full MRP prices
    • Not a good place for budget book shopping.

Online

  1. www.secondhandbooksindia.com
    • Limited collection, but great books
    • All books have delivery charges, between 15 to 30 rupees
    • Payment option is add cash to basket and then pay from basket( a little inconvenient)
    • Book condition categorised in asterisks(*)
      • ***** being pristine condition
      • *being torn, damaged and almost destroyed
      • Most listings are ****, so pretty good condition overall
  2. Book Chor
    • The Best online store for books
    • Pricing is always great
    • Predominantly an Android app but the website is equally functional too
    • Cheapest pre-owned books you will ever find.
  3. www.amazon.in
  4. www.flipkart.com
  5. www.crossword.in

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