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Carson Books & Records
Category: Shopping Books, Mags, Music and Video Bookstores Bookstores [Edit]
3425 Broadway WVancouver, BC V6R 2B4
Neighbourhood: Kitsilano
(604) 739-4041
- Price Range:
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- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
4 reviews for Carson Books & Records
4 reviews in English
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Review from Larry L.
The smell of an independant book store should smell of bound leather and soft copy prints. The smell of used paperbacks, maybe a whiff of old wine and cigars if you let your imagination flow that extra bit.
Another great roaming search and find book store.
Through piles of books your can find rariities like Deepak Chopra, Books on Raw food and dieting. A biography of Billy Clinton next to a memoirs of one of the Trudeaus, a Canadian great. One of the Trudeaus anyways.
Kids books to self help.
It's here. You just need to find them and they're waitng to be found, bought, taken home and read.
Put that literary mind at ease and feed it what it deserves. -
Review from Crystal H.
Vancouver, BC
8/3/2009 1 photo
It may not go together like white on rice, but when I'm craving some Eatery sushi time, I choose to go earlier rather than later just so I can get a whiff of the book smell. You know the one I'm referring to, a delightful blend of dusty, musty, attic-like aromas mixed with the pulp and paper. I wish I could bottle that up! But I digress...
There is order and organization here - you just have to sniff it out! Stacks of books might look out of place at the end a shelf, but that just might be where you'll find the newest addition to the store's collection. Old, newish, best sellers and old classics line the walls here. I would reckon you could find a 1970s cook book from Betty Crocker here!
Mmmmmm...sushi, the smell of the 70s and a good book -- nothing beats it ;) -
Review from Chloë E.
Vancouver, BC
11/13/2008
Standing on the sidewalk you wouldn't know the extent of the record collection that lies inside this store. Pass the discount pile of records near the door (likely filled with Nana Mouskouri LPs) and head to the back of the shop.
I really enjoy the organized layout of this record section. It's easy to flip through the LPs and, unlike in a thrift store, you can actually get a good idea of the titles in stock. Prices are a little higher than a buck-a-piece, but you'll find far more in less time here than at Value Village. Expect to pay about $5 a record, but prices do vary widely.
The clerk wasn't too chatty on the last day I was there, but sometimes that's just how bookstore folk are. Carson Books and Records also has plenty of paperbacks and hardcovers, although if literature is your thing head up Dunbar to the other location of Carson Books. -
Review from joe b.
Vancouver, BC
9/2/2009
I am reviewing this place strictly as a record shop and in that sense it is just the pits.
totally horrible, picked over selection and anything of marginal interest is priced so high its not worth even thinking about. serious collectors will be seriously bummed out by this place.
the fellow who runs it is kind and will play records if you want to hear them. i just wish he'd get some good records inand throw out those stacks of garbage or donate them or whatever.
