Bibliomane's paradise

On the way home yesterday, I was able to swing into one of the most dangerous places north of New York: the New England Mobile Book Fair. It is a near-perfect book store. Things it does not have:

  • endcap displays
  • DVDs
  • a coffee stand/counter (actually, not the worst thing that ever happened to a bookstore, but something that definitely distinguishes NEMBF from a chain)
  • glossy formica – except perhaps at the registers
  • wheels (it hasn’t been mobile since basically forever)

It does have:

  • books, books and more books
  • funkadelic shelves
  • labyrinthine floor plan (in the remainders area – where I do most of my browsing)
  • great clippings, pictures and signs on the walls

A slide show to give you a taste…


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5 thoughts on “Bibliomane's paradise

  1. Well, it’s official. You’ve found the thing which will surely be my undoing. I guess I know what I’m doing this weekend… selling a few pints of blood, and then going bookshopping after I wake back up.

  2. It’s a great place. I always get a bit of an adrenaline rush when I’m walking across the parking lot going in – you never know what you’ll stumble over.

  3. Close – I think you reversed sides of 128 for two ‘begins with N’ towns – it’s in Newton (inside 128) – Natick’s outside, in the same just-south-of-the-Pike stretch.

    Love them radio towers! Love that dirty water!

  4. Just forgot where the border was exactly– I LIVED in Newton once or actually twice (Auburndale, north by the Turnpike exit.) First wife still lives there– a Buddhist shrink!

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