Books & Bookshelves - 99 Sanchez Street, San Francisco

Owning Print Books Feels Different From Owning E-Books A new study tells us what we've long known--that e-books and print books are totally different objects.

Research shows that reading one kind of book can extend your life When I first read an article at Inc., I thought, score! I’m going to live forever. Then I re-read it and got kinda bummed out for a minute, because the Yale researchers who found that reading…

a custom chest of drawers in birch and alder

Why I Avoid MDF and Furniture Built with MDF (and Think You Should, Too) For the past couple of decades, there has been a drastic increase in the percentage of consumer furniture and goods manufactured using a material known as MDF. The average guy on the street probably isn't familiar with the term, so it is understandable some of you might be asking, "What is MDF?". It...

This book is now available in our free books section!
In store only, while supplies last. Gratis

We've added lots of good books to our free section!
Stop by soon for a bargain.

Secretly Awesome: Duboce Triangle's Longstanding 'Books & Bookshelves' | Hoodline For 30 years, owner/poet David Highsmith has stood behind the counter at the combination bookstore and furniture outlet.

Against all odds, print books are on the rise again in the US At least in the US, sales of physical books have experienced a renewed surge of interest.

I LIKE BIG BOOKS--I CAN NOT LIE!

Decorating 101 with bookworms.

(Anna Quindlen via http://bit.ly/1ig4D6N)

Some shelving we built for The Local Spicery in Tiburon. Thanks to Nick and Evelyn for the nice photo!

Stop by our store this month for a FREE copy of Angel's Laundromat by Lucia Berlin or Earth Poetry by William Everson. Offer is limited to the first 100 in-store customers to mention this notice. .

INFOGRAPHIC: The Chemistry of Book Smells More info from Compound Interest here.

🎇🎇 Happy Fourth of July! 🎇🎇

Ordinary people have big TVs.
Extraordinary people have big libraries.

"Children Reading beside a Dog" by Briton Riviere,1889. It's good to have a reading companion :)

Bookmobile from 1950, restored.

Une arme d'instruction massive!
by Raul Lemesoff

P is for Patti,

Patti Smith, who put the poetry in punk rock.

Rad American Women A-Z, from City Lights/Sister Spit, our first kids book!

Pop Quiz!

Do you know the Anatomy of a Tree?

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11 Books You'd Find On Lisa Simpson's Shelf, Because Your Favorite Cartoon Feminist Has Great... Like so many ’90s kids, I grew up watching The Simpsons. Everyday, like clockwork, my brother and I would get home from swim practice, eat dinner, and watch the reruns on FOX (followed by an episode of Seinfeld, of course). Almost as instantaneously as DVD sets took over for VHS, we owned the

Assessing the Health of Independent Bookshops U.S. indie bookstores have rebounded strongly from the financial crisis, while in Britain and Ireland more than one-third of shops have disappeared in the past decade.