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Indigo Livres Musique & Cafe
Category: Shopping Books, Mags, Music and Video Bookstores Bookstores [Edit]
1500, Avenue McGill CollègeMontreal, QC H3A 3J5
(514) 281-5549
- Hours:
Mon-Sun 9 am - 10 pm
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
5 reviews for Indigo Livres Musique & Cafe
4 reviews in English
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Review from Gabriel F.
4/2/2009
I was so glad that I was able to find a bookstore that had both French and English books for sale. I needed to pick up a memento for my sister who has an obsession with the French language, but is only in her first year of studying it. It was nice to be able to find an affordable graphic novel for her, and the bookstore staff was very friendly and helpful. I have to agree with the rather unusual layout, but I did not have difficulty finding the books that I was looking for and noticed that their variety was pretty solid. Great place to go to, pick up a book and relax for a while.
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Review from Charles H.
Montréal, QC
6/30/2011
It's just OK, probably because those of us who buy books in English have almost no other choice, it's Indigo or the other bookstore around the corner: Paragraph...or http://Amazon.com. I check regularly for books online and they are listed on their website, but when I check the stock at the closest store, on St Catherine St in my case the books are not available, nor in Laval, nor in Bujumbura, nor anywhere, so I always end up buying my books online because it's completely useless going to the store...one more thing, they are always changing the locations for each section, so every time I go I have to waste time trying to find what I am looking for because it is never in the same place, and the employees seem to be trained to avoid customers, so we end up roaming all around the bookstore trying to find a book or ordering the books for a later pick-up because they are not available in-store.
Save yourself some time, and avoid frustration by ordering from the big A..com -
Review from Risa D.
1/4/2012 1 Check-in Here
I agree with Charles, we don't have a lot of options in English bookstores, and this Indigo is quite nice. Architecturally it's uplifting, with the ground floor opening up with an open circle staircase to a larger second floor at a central corner spot on McGill and St Catherine, two floors with high ceilings, two walls of windows. I mean it's a chain where all the fonts and colours in all the cities are the same and the actual owner is elsewhere, so I try to support Paragraph up the street on McGill, or Drawn and Quarterly, or the secondhand bookstores instead, but sometimes you just need to be surrounded by more books. I have always found the staff in the fiction and music sections at this Indigo to be super nice, knowledgeable and helpful and not on the sell. The café has good quality coffee and some tasty sandwiches, some of the seating is hard and wobbly, but there are a few big comfy chairs tucked by the giant windows if you get lucky.
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Review from jen d.
8/16/2008
Indigo is part of a Canadian chain of bookstores that span across the country. I had time to kill in downtown Montreal, and this was a pretty nice place to do it (and was familiar, also a plus when you're alone in a new city and don't speak the primary language). And the selection of books was good - for a 'real life' bookstore :) It was a bit of an odd layout I recall, but the cafe was nice and a good place to people-watch/relax from shopping. Especially in such a busy area of downtown.
Listed in: Canada for the win!, Montreal, Canada
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