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| - I agree with Charles, we don't have a lot of options in English bookstores, and this Indigo is quite nice. Architecturally it's uplifting, with the ground floor opening up with an open circle staircase to a larger second floor at a central corner spot on McGill and St Catherine, two floors with high ceilings, two walls of windows. I mean it's a chain where all the fonts and colours in all the cities are the same and the actual owner is elsewhere, so I try to support Paragraph up the street on McGill, or Drawn and Quarterly, or the secondhand bookstores instead, but sometimes you just need to be surrounded by more books. I have always found the staff in the fiction and music sections at this Indigo to be super nice, knowledgeable and helpful and not on the sell. The café has good quality coffee and some tasty sandwiches, some of the seating is hard and wobbly, but there are a few big comfy chairs tucked by the giant windows if you get lucky.
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