[Chicago] Good Tech Bookstores in Chicagoland?

[Aaron Lav]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 04:04:01PM -0600, Ted Pollari wrote:
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> If I'm not mistaken, Powell's is a nation chain (though a bit more  
> respectable in book circles, from the little I've heard, than say,  
> B&N) -- if that's the case, we could likely approach one of the local  
> Powell's and see if they'd be interested.

The Powell's in Portland and Chicago are independent (although run by
relatives), and there are no others: see
http://www.powells.com/info/briefhistory.html

If I remember correctly, nerdbooks.com ran a bus to their store for
the Dallas PyCon one year: that worked better for me, since I could
browse everything they had instead of just what they thought would
sell at the conference.

    Aaron (asl2 at pobox.com / http://www.pobox.com/~asl2)