Tuesday, September 30, 2008
The booktown - a village by the fjord
September, 28th
If you visit The Norwegian Booktown by car from south, you have to drive a tollroad at a cost of 175,-NOK each way. But no doubt it's worth it. I went to see a late sunday this september and was not disappointed. In this very particular village you can choose between 250 000 titles sold in different abandoned buildings by the fjord. The above map shows a small part of it. Here is the second-hand book-seller building Fjøsen (The Livestock Barn).
Inside from floor to ceiling there are book-shelfs filled with second-hand books. Some booksellers also have placed their book-shelfs along the road and offer self service like this one. The price for each book, 10 kr., has to be put in a box.
Most books in the about 10 second-hand bookseller trades are put into book-shelfs and organised either by author or by subject. Time is running if you like to run through a book before concluding what books to buy, but prices are low. On your walk between the book-sellers you can sit down to relax and have a cup of coffee, or if you have no ideas, just look at more books exposed just outside the door to call your attention like here:
When leaving the booktown I was happy to bring home half a dozen books, between them a norwegian school song book, a famous novel that is out of print and not available from ordinary book-sellers, a missing volume in a series, a small dictionary in 7 languages etc.
Please notice: June 20th 2009 at night , The Norwegian Booktown is open until next morning. You should meet there and have an exciting experience.
Town by town in Europe: http://townbytown.blogspot.com/ (in norwegian)
If you visit The Norwegian Booktown by car from south, you have to drive a tollroad at a cost of 175,-NOK each way. But no doubt it's worth it. I went to see a late sunday this september and was not disappointed. In this very particular village you can choose between 250 000 titles sold in different abandoned buildings by the fjord. The above map shows a small part of it. Here is the second-hand book-seller building Fjøsen (The Livestock Barn).Inside from floor to ceiling there are book-shelfs filled with second-hand books. Some booksellers also have placed their book-shelfs along the road and offer self service like this one. The price for each book, 10 kr., has to be put in a box.Most books in the about 10 second-hand bookseller trades are put into book-shelfs and organised either by author or by subject. Time is running if you like to run through a book before concluding what books to buy, but prices are low. On your walk between the book-sellers you can sit down to relax and have a cup of coffee, or if you have no ideas, just look at more books exposed just outside the door to call your attention like here:When leaving the booktown I was happy to bring home half a dozen books, between them a norwegian school song book, a famous novel that is out of print and not available from ordinary book-sellers, a missing volume in a series, a small dictionary in 7 languages etc.Please notice: June 20th 2009 at night , The Norwegian Booktown is open until next morning. You should meet there and have an exciting experience.
Town by town in Europe: http://townbytown.blogspot.com/ (in norwegian)
