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StickClick
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"Book Off in New York"
, posted Thu 8 Jul 14:02
Book Off, the used Japanese book store in New York... tell me...
How is the selection? [Maybe, compared to Kino at Rockafeller Square?] How is the art book selection, in particular?
I know the store has been mentioned here a couple of times, but I don't recall what was said about it...
Thanksyou.
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justicekyo
658th Post
Red Carpet Regular Member
"Re(1):Book Off in New York"
, posted Thu 8 Jul 14:03
quote: Book Off, the used Japanese book store in New York... tell me...
How is the selection? [Maybe, compared to Kino at Rockafeller Square?] How is the art book selection, in particular?
I know the store has been mentioned here a couple of times, but I don't recall what was said about it...
Thanksyou.
it's a great shop. nice selection, just be careful of the gay comics. XD
Sano
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"Re(2):Book Off in New York"
, posted Thu 8 Jul 14:09:
Don't Forget Asahiya, THE ONLY JAPANESE BOOK STORE IN NYC THAT SELLS ARCADIA. It's on 45th between 5th and Madison.
Book Off is Cool, especially the used CDs. I've gotten pleny of CDs anywhere from Seven Dollars to Two Dollars. Hard to beat!
And at Book Off, you can look through all of the Manga Books before you purchase, something you can not do in Kino or Asahiya since they are plastic wrapped. Oh, they have insane sales on old Mangas. You can get a set of 10 used Mangas for like five bucks!
[this message was edited by Sano on Thu 8 Jul 14:23]
StickClick
387th Post
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"Re(3):Book Off in New York"
, posted Sat 10 Jul 16:06
quote: Don't Forget Asahiya, THE ONLY JAPANESE BOOK STORE IN NYC THAT SELLS ARCADIA. It's on 45th between 5th and Madison.
Oh fuck, it's not closed? Why did I think that.... Damn. Must go back +_+.
Well, anyway... found Murata's 0.5 Like a Balance Life for a mere $28~! Figures I bought it new for $50 a mere two months ago, heh.
I was also impressed that they had the LE Ping Pong movie set for $80... What a ridiculously mammoth box.
Oroch
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"Re(4):Book Off in New York"
, posted Sat 10 Jul 16:15:
quote: Don't Forget Asahiya, THE ONLY JAPANESE BOOK STORE IN NYC THAT SELLS ARCADIA. It's on 45th between 5th and Madison.
Oh fuck, it's not closed? Why did I think that.... Damn. Must go back +_+.
Well, anyway... found Murata's 0.5 Like a Balance Life for a mere $28~! Figures I bought it new for $50 a mere two months ago, heh.
I was also impressed that they had the LE Ping Pong movie set for $80... What a ridiculously mammoth box.
LOLERS!!! PING PONG CLUB GOES TO HELL!
PARTY AT JUANS HOUSE
Spoiler (Highlight to view) - do these stores have websites?
[this message was edited by Oroch on Sat 10 Jul 16:18]
Mokona 41th Post
Rare Customer
"Re(5):Book Off in New York"
, posted Sun 11 Jul 07:00
I went to several places in NYC (was looking especially for Visual-kei and JRock CDs) and found that the best deals are in Book-off (well, even in Tokyo I found the best used CDs at book-off, huge selection, but lots and lots of crap too! bought a Lacryma'christi CD, like new, for 320 yens! Arf!) Basically the good point of NYC's book-off is that it's the EXACT same store that you find in japan (including the japanese-speaking employees) which I found kinda refreshing.
Damn you Microsoft because of you I can calculate faster than my computer!
Sano
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Red Carpet Regular Member++
"Re(4):Book Off in New York"
, posted Mon 12 Jul 06:44
Asahiya's not closed. They moved two blocks up without telling anybody and not having a sign on their store with a name for a year, which is why I'm missing a full year of Arcadias. They are between Fifth and Madison on 45th now, no longer on 45th and Vanderbilt. Now they have a sign.
StickClick
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Silver Customer
"Re(5):Book Off in New York"
, posted Mon 12 Jul 13:57
Thanks for the address.
I'm surprised the Kino at Rockerfellar doesn't get ARCADIA... even the small Kino in Edgewater, NJ gets some copies in.
"Book Off in New York" 
what a crappy ass name
