The Best Used Bookstores in Toronto

The best used bookstores in Toronto are a refuge and a resource for those enamoured with the written word - and still willing to pay for true pages. Unlike online sources like Amazon, at these stores, you can actually strike up a conversation about literature, attend readings or author events or other celebrations, trade or barter some of your own tomes, or uncover some dusty relic hidden on a shelf, calling out to you - a book that may just change your life.

I love everything about them: the smell of old wood and old paper, the coloured spines lined up like soldiers, the characters that live and work there - people and dogs and cats and bunnies - making them feel like a strange occupied kingdom. Used bookstores ooze charm and romance and mystery, and encourage wonderful self-reflection - and when you finally decide on what to buy, contained within your purchase is a small slice of your experience in the shop.

Here are the best used bookstores in Toronto.

See also:

The best bookstores in Toronto

The best comic shops in Toronto

The best public library in Toronto

by Erinn Beth Langille via blogTO