Voracious Book lovers of Chennai do not visit big stores to quench their thirst for reading. For them the best solution is offered by the city are the pavement book shops. Exactly what they want in a price that is pocket friendly! That’s the reason why book lovers flock these shops. Regular customers, wide range of books, availability and best of all cheap price, this is what keeps the vendors of these book shops rocking.
Pavement bookshops selling original, second hand are aplenty in Chennai. Adyar, Mount Road, near the central railway station is where you can get the best bid. With their simple accessibility and striking discounts, roadway bookshops offer all which a customer might be looking for.
Wide gamut of books ranging from fiction, non-fiction, text books, travel and self help books are placed on the racks. Amazing is the way the pavement vendor keeps track of the new releases and kudos to his purchase decision as books which have hit the stands and made a mark will be available without any doubt.
Paulo Coelho, Roald Dahl, Linda Goodman, Dan Brown are the authors whose books are regularly stocked. Harry Potter is something which cannot go unnoticed in such shops. All of these books which cannot be brought for the price in the book store can be bought at half less than the original retail price. If that’s the case for original books, there is large market for second hand books also. Foreign author text books, old magazines, novels can be bought at both piece rate and are also sold on basis of kilo rate.
“I like owning my favorite books. It’s like a treasure. But buying books from the stores are not convenient for two reasons, first for price and second it seems like a work to go to one place and buy. But this pavement precious book shops takes both my worries away.” Says Lavanya , an HR executive
Though there are complaints sometimes about the paper quality and pages missing, the vendors are courteous enough to exchange the book without rebuking and for paper quality, that’s why one pays so much extra in big stores.
SOWJANYA.S