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| jmlgws Senior Member Canada Joined 6896 days ago 102 posts - 104 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Spanish, Mandarin | Message 25 of 50 29 July 2006 at 8:41am | IP Logged | ||
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I was just humbly suggesting that for language X it might be better to look to cultural community X rather than in a "general" bookstore. I see though that you have already thought of this.
I am envious of you folks who live in Toronto proper, to have access to the Toronto Public library system. As I live in Mississauga I do not have access to that system (at least without paying a subscription fee - don't know if that might be worth the money?) Thank you for the French suggestion. I might have walked past the place, but am not sure. Is it on Bloor Street, or Avenue Road, or someplace different? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| victor Tetraglot Moderator United States Joined 7112 days ago 1098 posts - 1056 votes 6 sounds Speaks: Cantonese*, English, FrenchC1, Mandarin Studies: Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 26 of 50 30 July 2006 at 6:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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jmlgws, I just checked on the library web site, but I didn't seem to find any specific information on criteria to get a library card. Check with library staff, but if you own/rent property in Toronto proper, you might be able to get a library card for free. Maybe even if you can show that you live with a relative in Toronto proper. I got my library card ages ago, so I don't know much about this.
And anyways, you can always access the library catalogue (http://hip.tpl.toronto.on.ca/), see which item you want to see, and just head out to that library. The Reference Library Language section is always a good place to start as well. Even if you do get a library card, you would get it for the "hold" service - to deliver almost any item to the library branch of your choice. I checked and the fee is $25/household/3 months. ( http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/abo_fee_index.jsp#nonresi dent) As for the bookstore place, here's the address: Maison de la Presse internationale 99 Yorkville Avenue Toronto ON M5R 1B9 (416)928-2328 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| SamD Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6453 days ago 823 posts - 987 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 27 of 50 02 September 2006 at 9:57am | IP Logged | ||
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I live in Youngstown, Ohio, a city of about 70,000 people and there are almost 200,000 more people in the surrounding county.
We have a Barnes & Noble here with a so-so selection and a Borders in the next county with a better selection. By "better selection," I mean more books and more languages. I suspect this is a fairly typical situation in most smaller US cities. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sir Nigel Senior Member United States Joined 6898 days ago 1126 posts - 1102 votes 2 sounds | Message 28 of 50 02 September 2006 at 10:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm not sure if I mentioned it here, but for a major bookstore, I find Borders to be much better than Barnes & Noble. They had the perfect sized Russian dictionary that I found amongst other things B&N wouldn't have.
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| brian00321 Senior Member United States Joined 6392 days ago 143 posts - 148 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 29 of 50 03 November 2006 at 10:18am | IP Logged | ||
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I usually buy my language books off of amazon. But close to my place
they have like this really huge used/new bookstore called Strands in Union Square. They have a pretty huge collection of foreign books in the basement. But I've only bought from there twice. I bought a German dictionary from there and this other book called Endgame (about Bosnia). Strands has a really nice collection though. So next time you're in New York City don't forget to check it out. It's like on 12th and Broadway. You can't miss it. Probably the best used book store ever (well in my opinion).
Oh and I think Borders is better too. I think it's more customer friendly. They have a lot of places where you can just sit down and just read. The only seats that they offer at B&N are at the Starbucks, or if you don't mind, on the floor. And if you sit at Starbucks without ordering anything and just read it makes me feel kind of cheap and guilty (free loading). Edited by brian00321 on 03 November 2006 at 10:19am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sir Nigel Senior Member United States Joined 6898 days ago 1126 posts - 1102 votes 2 sounds | Message 30 of 50 03 November 2006 at 5:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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That's right about B&N. That, and I would feel guilty for taking up a seat that a Starbucks customer could be sitting in.
Since you mentioned Amazon. Don't forget to shop around for cheaper prices. Sometimes B&N has cheaper prices for Assimil even though I've never seem them in their stores. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sajro Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5790 days ago 129 posts - 131 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 31 of 50 07 July 2008 at 8:42pm | IP Logged | ||
Does your Barnes and Noble not have a bunch of comfy lazy chairs like mine? :o I wish I had a Borders nearby (Greater Chattanooga Area, TN). EDIT: I seem to have become an accidental necromancer. RAISE THE DEAD! Edited by sajro on 07 July 2008 at 8:43pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Tigresuisse Triglot Senior Member SwitzerlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5799 days ago 182 posts - 180 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German Studies: Russian | Message 32 of 50 21 August 2008 at 3:03am | IP Logged | ||
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I would like to add two bookstores outside US .. I hope you don't mind!!
The first one is Hoepli, in Milan - Italy. They have several books about learning languages (I also found a Tamil-English dictionary) And also the Melisa Library in Lugano (Switzerlan), where they have a huge section of books in Spanish, French and German. Bye Bye Marta Edited by Tigresuisse on 21 August 2008 at 6:56am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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