I will let you know if I'm ever there again! City Bakery's hot chocolate sounds excellent, and I would totally like to do a comparison test. (I'm actually trying to figure out how to concoct my own version of Brenner's. Perhaps a cup of milk, two packets of Swiss Miss, sugar, and some vanilla extract...)
Maybe the Strand is better for older editions of books--I'm more of a cheap paperback kind of used book customer, assuming I buy anything at all and don't just borrow from the library. McKay is smaller (though still pretty large--that's about a half to two thirds of the store in the picture), but their selection of the stuff I like to read is better, and a good chunk of the books are under $2. I don't think I've ever seen a paperback for more than $5 there. Plus their SF/F section blows the Strand's out of the water. (There was...an SF/F nook. Well, a nook if one is being charitable. Though the people I was with assured me that it's been bigger in the past...? Perhaps yesterday was a bad day for sci-fi, or they had mixed most of it in with general fiction.)
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Date: 2010-08-25 04:09 am (UTC)Maybe the Strand is better for older editions of books--I'm more of a cheap paperback kind of used book customer, assuming I buy anything at all and don't just borrow from the library. McKay is smaller (though still pretty large--that's about a half to two thirds of the store in the picture), but their selection of the stuff I like to read is better, and a good chunk of the books are under $2. I don't think I've ever seen a paperback for more than $5 there. Plus their SF/F section blows the Strand's out of the water. (There was...an SF/F nook. Well, a nook if one is being charitable. Though the people I was with assured me that it's been bigger in the past...? Perhaps yesterday was a bad day for sci-fi, or they had mixed most of it in with general fiction.)