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This is great to visit thousonds of books - foreign books music playing people reading and special corner where Bobby Fischer always came - he and Ari Gísli who is the owner were his friend and it was Bobbs favourite bookshop - great great GREAT
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Date of experience: November 2019
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Needed to locate this store. This allowed us to find other locations we visited on a previous trip. Nice store.
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Date of experience: July 2019
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Great little store that we wondered into across from our hotel. They have just about any language and book selection you would want. We found a catalog from 1942 in which a vendor from Copenhagen had given to a merchant in Reykjavik. There was a purchase order inside for piano wire. Great find!…
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Date of experience: June 2018
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Located one block from the popular tourists Laugavegur street, the used book store is where the famous chess player Bobby Fischer would visit several times a week. The used book store is filled with hundreds of old books in Icelandic, Danish, French, and English with old celebrity and newspaper clippings hanging on the wall. The books are sorted into sections, but the organization ends there since there are books stacked in no apparent order on the shelves and on the floor. Any reader would appreciate this authentic bookstore. I bought a poetry book in Icelandic and the book store owner was able to tell me all about the author. A must visit for anyone who wants to purchase a "real" souvenir from Iceland.…
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Date of experience: January 2018
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I only speak English. The bookstore is pretty cool and the man working there is very nice. But most of the books are not in English. It was still fun to check out. And the man working there was super nice.
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Date of experience: June 2017
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