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[sibyl]

I was flying out of Milwaukee last summer and I discovered a really terrific used bookstore in the airport.  It wasn't cheap, but it was very well stocked and had a wide variety of books -- I picked up an out-of-print children's novel for my son -- which makes for a nice change to the usual array of business-oriented books in most airport bookshops.

Can anyone else recommend a good bookstore in an airport?

[menotti]

There is a used bookstore in the Raleigh-Durham airport.

[trabb]

Maybe I fly too much.  If I recall, the bookstore in Milwaukee is a good used bookstore.  I think it was at that bookstore that I ran across a first edition of a pre-1900 book that I'd been looking for for quite some time.  It was locked up in a big glass case.  That kind of bookstore. Is that the sort you're looking for menotti?  If so, I can recall ever having seen one in an airport.  As sibyl points out, the RDU airport has a reasonably good used bookstore, but it's mostly airport reading, I think - the kind of stuff that I enjoy but that I don't read on a regular basis because I simply don't have the time.

[dr_stones]

I was flying out of Milwaukee last summer and I discovered a really terrific used bookstore in the airport.  It wasn't cheap, but it was very well stocked and had a wide variety of books -- I picked up an out-of-print children's novel for my son -- which makes for a nice change to the usual array of business-oriented books in most airport bookshops.

Can anyone else recommend a good bookstore in an airport?

I love that store! It is huge and everyone thinks I am making it up!

[porcupine]

These aren't 'good' bookstores, but I was fairly impressed to find that on a recent trip, both Philadelphia and Atlanta airports offered a deal I hadn't heard of before. If you puchased a novel and finished it on the plane, you could return it to either of these airport stores (and a range of others) within a certain time limit, and get half your money back.

I always keep the novels that I buy, which is why I now have a stupid number of the darn things littering my apartment. But this deal almost convinced me to return the novel I bought!