Powells: Book Nerdvana

If you're a book lover, chances are you've heard of Powells bookstore. If not, you need to know about it. And like Mecca, you DO need to visit it at least once in your life.

Why Powells? Here are some stats about their main City of Books site...and not counting their other sites...that may pique your interest:
• 68,000 square feet packed with books.
• We buy 3,000 used books over the counter every day.
• Approximately 3,000 people walk in and buy something every day.
• Another 3,000 people just browse and drink coffee.
• We stock 122 major subject areas and more than 3,500 subsections.
• You'll find more than 1,000,000 volumes on our shelves.
• Approximately 80,000 book lovers browse the City's shelves every day in Portland and via the Internet.

Here is the main City of Books site page. This page describes their other Portland area locations. This is a store map of the City of Books site.

In case that description sounds a little dry to you, here is a satellite photo of the main City of Books site. Yes, it fills that entire city block.



Two opposite corners from outside



If there are bigger/better Book Lovers' Nerdvanas in the world, I need to know about them STAT.