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Do you love to read
By: jetwriter | Aug 19, 2007 08:12 PM 
Here are some options to shop for books - 1. CROSSWORD STORES - Many cities in India have crossword stores. These are centrall AC shops having books displayed in an orderly and pleasant manner which makes shopping for books a memorable experience...
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books top 5
By: rocknbeer | May 30, 2007 03:29 PM 
books in bangalore is the best available hobby (cafes - people stil reading..well someone said pubs - obviously you are wasting the beer by reading books there).There are places where you get books and places where you feel good buying (remember...
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Amazon to DaryaGanj ...
By: somaat Member's photo available | May 16, 2007 08:18 PM 
I love reading books. Books are my best companion. (Next only to my beloved ;)I just Love spending Lazy Sunday afternoon with a book in hand. If you can relate to these sentences and sentiments, chances are, your eyes betray you each time...
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The best places to shop for Books
By: biren_z | Sep 16, 2006 04:59 PM 
Hi,I am a complete bookworm and whenever I am travelling I am always on a lookout for good book stores. Being a Mumbaite, I am most conversant with Book stores in Mumbai.The best book store according to me is1) Crossword - There...
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5 Places for Bookworms
By: winasht | Jun 27, 2006 04:43 PM 
There are a lot of books out there. Books about people , places , ideas on fiction / non-fiction /history - you just have to keep discovering !!! So where do you find them .I have tried to list a few places across Mumbai and Chennai - the two places...
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A booklover's corner
By: sajita | Jun 07, 2006 05:44 PM 
Blossom at Church Street, Bangalore has quite become my favourite place to wait for my husband. (any married person -female -will appreciate what I mean) We generally go home together after a hard day’s work- sometimes after hardly a day’s work too...
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Landmark- for all book lovers
By: neha_manucha | May 08, 2006 01:06 PM 
Landmark.. One place where all you book lovers in mumbai ought to go..set up in the heart of andheri,second floor in the Infiniti mall, is just a fun place to be in. Landmark is not only about books, there is stationery, toys for kids,cds, dvds...
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Reading comprehension
By: payal5ul Member's photo available | Dec 29, 2005 07:51 AM 
Its abt Reading Comprehension. Here is some more grammar work. I think if you are a software professional, mba is the most wanted job enhancement, and reading comprehension is `the` requirement, so a rich vocabulary is the must. The requirements...
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Hyderabad has all the best Places
By: smisbahuddin Star Writer | Dec 28, 2005 12:40 PM 
The best 5 places to shop for in HYDERABAD books are Abids This place is full of book shops, you have shops like A.H.Wheeler who are dealing in books since very long Even before formation of Andhra Pardesh. Every SUNDAY Abids has a roadside...
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Great reading-low prices
By: narmadathought | Oct 05, 2005 04:56 AM 
I am a Mumbaiite, soI can safely say shopping for books is one thingI don’t worry about. Not many people know it, but there are several places in Mumbai where you can find great authors, prize winning books, bestsellers and at unbelievable rock bottom...
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Just Jayanagar
By: GirlNextStore | Oct 02, 2005 02:38 PM 
I’m really drilling down here, to just walking distance around Jayanagar 4th Block, Bangalore...since the rest of Bangalore is already here. 1. Sankar’s at Kalmane Coffee - 27th cross 2. Nagasri Books - opposite the bus stand. 2. Prism Books - behind...
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Crossing the Crossword puzzle!
By: bitwiser Member's photo available | Apr 13, 2005 01:32 AM 
Ting! >did you know that there was an online book shop that sold books all over the nation & kept the postage free as a service to the reader? >Do you know that whenever you enter this bookshop online or at its premise close to...
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stuff on books in Bangalore
By: coni Member's photo available | Feb 24, 2005 12:00 PM 
Am a new exponent to reading..Usually I do spend a lot of time watching movies ,listening to music or just sleeping ... well! reading thru some reviews...fantastic ones at that..some effective places you could pick up books ,where to go,where not.. I...
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Heidi
By: heidi | Jan 20, 2005 02:33 PM 
Hi, I am Heidi. I like reading books andI am 10 years old. So all ten years listenI willgive a list of books pls read it:- 1. The Naughtiest girl series- Enid Blyton. 2. Comic- Tinkle and Champak. 3. Heidi- Johannah Spyri. 4. Famous Five sreies...
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Crosswords is the PLACE
By: kapilb Member's photo available | Oct 26, 2004 06:08 PM 
They were good, they became better and for me now they are the BEST. I visit Crossword only every two months - but I pick up enough books to fill my reading appetite. The staff is helpful, always have the answers quick and are able to even guide...
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Bombay Book Bazaar
By: cityguy78 Member's photo available | Aug 18, 2004 12:35 PM 
I am a biblophile and pick up good books wherever I find them whether on street or in crosswords. However, I would like to bring to the notice of my fellow booklovers an exhibition of books held every year in Mumbai called Bombay Book Bazaar. It has a...
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Akshara! U beat them all
By: Chimera Member's photo available | Mar 25, 2004 11:36 AM 
Last year, I was so bored with my workplace that I was seriously thinking of opening a bookstore and fulfill one of my dreams (so that I can keep reading from morn till night and have work+pleasure at the same time). My ideal bookstore would be like the...
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Five Best Places to Shop for Books
By: p2pexchange | Mar 14, 2004 11:31 PM 
Book is one of my most favorite craze. I have a small library in my room and I cant go to sleep without reading any fiction. To choose books my first preference always is theKolkata Book Fair.Actually I at all times desire to purchase any unknown...
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best places
By: warrior Member's photo available | Mar 14, 2004 02:21 PM 
Book is one of my most favorite craze. I have a small library in my room and I cant go to sleep without reading any fiction. To choose books my first preference always is theKolkata Book Fair.Actually I at all times desire to purchase any unknown book...
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Books, books and more books
By: rosea Member's photo available | Mar 12, 2004 06:49 PM 
Just having read a review on this I decided to tell you about my 5 favorite places to buy books. I rarely if ever buy them new anymore as they are far too costly. The only time I might is if it is a reference book or something that I intend to keep using. My...
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Tips for Book Shopping
By: meleahk1 Member's photo available | Mar 12, 2004 02:58 AM 
I don?t do a whole lot of reading any more. Actually, I get into spells where I can do nothing but read and then get out of that spell and not read anything for years, except of course my bible, which for me is the best book in the world. And of course...
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Books experiences in THAMEL
By: bunkasbandh | Nov 11, 2003 12:17 PM 
Thamel..a quick look in the Rough Guide to Nepal will reveal much that there is to know about Thamel But for the uninitiated it is the melting pot in which backpackers from almost all over the world and Nepalese from all over Nepal (where else?) come...
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Where people rarely visit the library, they prefer to go to book-stores and buy books for themselves. This is what people prefer, as they can sit at the convenience of their homes and read the books or go through them again. Most libraries in India have...
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BEST TIME TO BUY BOOKS IN MUMBAI
By: ruma | Sep 02, 2003 07:12 PM 
Title : BEST TIME TO BUY BOOKS IN MUMBAI Review : Rainy season in Mumbai is great fun. With rain pouring like cats and dogs, thunder and lightning doing a jazzy number in the sky, hot pakodas and coffee for company, with Jagjit Singh crooning in the...
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My Homes Away From Home
By: Tongue_in_cheek | Jun 06, 2003 10:05 PM 
I’m an incorrigible bookworm. The origins of this malady are clouded in my brain by the ravages of time but the intensity with which it envelops me amazes me no end. It was Groucho Marx who once wistfully remarked, “Outside of a...
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Get your book
By: esgallindeion Member's photo available | May 04, 2003 09:14 PM 
Living in New Delhi, I guess many of you would think I have a wide range of places to buy books from? Wrong. Of course, there are many book stores here, but I only get books from a few selected places. Each place from where I obtain books has particular...
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An insiders story : Lepisma saccharina
By: arunpv Member's photo available | May 02, 2003 11:47 PM 
I was born in a tiny room in a little lane off Brigade Road, Bangalore. My earliest recollection of the room was that it contained hundreds of rectangular objects – my mother was to tell me later that they were books. They were of all sizes –...
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B-O-O-K-S
By: Bhavna Member's photo available | Feb 16, 2003 12:34 AM 
Well the best place to buy books at a cheaper rate for most of us has kind of been the pavement across Churchgate station. Ever since college when one couldn’t really afford to buy expensive books the easier solution was to go to town and pick up piles...
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Shop till you are Brain Dead
By: fatcat | Jan 21, 2003 02:19 AM 
Next to dogs, books are a man’s best friend. There is no good time to reading a book – late at night before going to bed, in the middle of the night when you are feeling insomniac and are too lazy to count sheep, while traveling, on Sundays,...
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BookMania!
By: Maverick14 | Oct 12, 2002 05:05 PM 
The place to buy books doesn’t matter at all.this is very Mumbai specific list of the 5 best places to shop for books.I’m sure all my readers would vouch that they have a specific book shop that’s their favorite. At the risk of treading over someone’s...
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Attention bibliophiles!
By: Opinionmaker | Sep 05, 2002 05:27 PM 
If ur a bibliophile in Mumbai we probably have come across one another at Strand Book Stall. That’s right - just ’’Strand’’ for the faithful. With books stacked from floor to ceiling, a ’’no interference’’ browsing policy and yes those unbelievable discounts...
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Crossword only !
By: premjit Member's photo available | Jul 19, 2002 04:42 PM 
Before Crosswords happened to Bombay we had to depend on our unfriendly neighbourhood bookshop. These places had titles crammed in no particular order akin to a grocery, no one to guide to make purchases. The inhospitable proprietor would always be far...
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JUST ONE PLACE TO GO NOW !!!
By: NeerajB Member's photo available | Jan 30, 2002 05:10 PM 
Hi Folks, If you guys happen to live in Mumbai and are interested in books a wee bit also, you should never, never, never miss the STRAND BOOK STALL mega SALE. This sale is really mad, it is actually the first ever sale which has genuinely cut down...
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Books on a budget
By: sax_angel | Nov 19, 2001 04:05 PM 
I do not have a lot of money, but that has not curtailed my desire to read and to buy books. How am I able to deal with this and still have money for food and other necessities? I have become the bargain book buying babe. I never pay full publisher...
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I'm Cheap. Are You?
By: DiFranco01 | Oct 13, 2001 01:14 AM 
Thanks to President Bush’s second income tax refund, I had an extra seventy bucks sitting on my dresser when I returned home after six months in the Army. The first thing I did was cash the check in Athens - which is a small community that has been...
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So many, so many... sigh!
By: steveleenow Member's photo available | Aug 19, 2001 09:47 AM 
I love reading, and as a starving university-college student / artist, I don’t have a lot of money to spend on books, so I’m always looking for ways to save a buck or two when shopping for books in the Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada area. So, here...
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What a peach of a find
By: jenny029 | Jul 17, 2001 05:32 PM 
last week I got one of those annoying leaflets in my magazine the type that you just throw in the bin. I wish that they never had them but on this occasion I found one for a book club called mango. It had all my favourite authors on offer from only...
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Read a Lot ! Increase Your IQ !
By: pete Member's photo available | Jun 30, 2001 10:03 PM 
      Reading is one of my passions! I just love to read.I have no patience or time to read big novels or stories.I enjoy reading fiction, magazines, weekly and monthly any article which interests me and other light reading stuff.I enjoy reading comics...
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Shopping for books pre internet
By: luvubear2 | Jun 04, 2001 05:08 AM 
I rarely take the time to read a book, now that I am on the net. When I did purchase books, they were mostly from yard sales, flea markets, trading with co-workers, also at the Library when they had a sale. My most favorite was buying cook books at the...
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Where to look for books
By: rosie6349 Member's photo available | May 26, 2001 06:14 PM 
There are many places to get books from that do not require you to pay full price and I can’t see paying so much for a book unless you just have to have it and can’t find it anywhere. My number one choice of places to find books are at garage sales,...
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PLACES WHERE I BUY BOOKS
By: Grandgram | May 25, 2001 04:46 AM 
Since I have been buying books for more years than I care to remember, I will suggest the five best places I have found to buy books today. We did not get real serious about buying books during our earliest years of our married life we just could not...
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I Like Bargains!
By: RedHead Member's photo available | May 25, 2001 03:32 AM 
Being a bit of a ’nut’ about the written word, I buy many books. I began by buying paper-back books, but soon made up my mind to begin building my library of books; I recommend this to you all. I then switched to hard cover. I joined two ’book clubs’...
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stimulus
By: cuchillo99 Member's photo available | Apr 30, 2001 04:31 PM 
I just love reading.In fact given a good book, I lose myself and find it relaxing and a stimulant as well. But then reading comes much later. Finding a book for oneself is the first thing to do. Fiction books are often available in the library.But around...
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A great place to find good reading!!
By: culugh | Apr 27, 2001 07:52 AM 
The other day I found a website that carries the most interesting selection of books that I have ever run across,it’s called THE DEADEND STREET, they claim to be the premier publisher of alterative literature. THEY’RE RIGHT!! The book I purchased was...
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