Comment by abhgh

If you're in the Bay Area and like visiting bookstores that have been around awhile, there are quite a few good ones here:

* Bell's books, Palo Alto, ~89 yr. [1]

* Moe's books, Berkeley, 65 yr. [2]

* Green Apple Books, SF, 57 yr. [3]

* City Lights, SF, 71 yr. [4]

* Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, 57 yr. [5]

* Feldman books, Menlo Park, ~25 yr. [6]

* Borderlands, SF, 27 yr. [7]

* Friends of the Palo Alto Library (Fopal), Palo Alto, ~54 yr, [8]. This is a used book sale (2nd weekend of every month) and not a bookstore per se, but it gets a special mention because of the price and breadth of books/topics. Esp. good for technical books (I have a $2 hardcover CLRS from here) - these are hard to find elsewhere. Los Altos library also conducts a pretty big sale, but that's not as frequent.

I'm sure I am missing some!

[1] https://www.bellsbooks.com/about

[2] https://www.moesbooks.com/

[3] https://www.greenapplebooks.com/store-history

[4] https://citylights.com/our-story/a-short-history-of-city-lig...

[5] https://www.recyclebookstore.com/about

[6] https://www.feldmansbooks.net/home

[7] https://borderlands-books.com/v2/about/history/

[8] https://www.fopal.org/history

Edit: added fopal.