Nice Book Store/coffee Shop

[buzziebaby]

Hi can anyone tell me if there is a nice bookstore/coffee shop like Barnes and Noble or Borders in Bangkok , or a nice relaxed coffee shop with couches and books ?

Thanks

[Ulysses G.]

There aren't any like Barnes and Nobles, but there are a few small used bookstores that have coffee and a few pastries although I never see very many people buying them.

One store in Bangkok that serves coffee is called Dasa has it's own website and the owner has an ongoing journal online. A few weeks ago he mentioned that people keep suggesting that he get wireless internet in his store and he said that he already had enough people taking up valuable space, wasting time in his shop and he didn't want the kind of customers that wireless would attract.

I took this to mean that most of the coffee drinkers want to sit around and read for hours and getting the books all coffee and brownie stained and then not buying much of anything.

It looks like he is regretting his decision to waste valuable book shelf space in his shop just for the trendiness value of having coffee available that doesn't come close to paying for itself and takes the space of a few thousand extra titles that could make the book shop a lot more interesting.

I go to a book shop for books, and a coffee shop for coffee and I hope that this silly fashion passes quickly.

[OldAsiaHand]

Hi can anyone tell me if there is a nice bookstore/coffee shop like Barnes and Noble or Borders in Bangkok , or a nice relaxed coffee shop with couches and books ?

Thanks

No, nothing remotely up to that standard. Kinokuniya at Paragon is about as close as we have here. It's the largest bookstore in Thailand and it has a small, but pleasant coffee shop. I recommend it, not enthusiastically, but more by default.

[jdinasia]

B2S at Central World is the largest bookstore in Thailand <for new books/mags at least> I'll check it out next week.

[Ulysses G.]

B2S at Central World is the largest bookstore in Thailand <for new books/mags at least> I'll check it out next week.

Is that run by Asia Books?

[fxm88]

I go to a book shop for books, and a coffee shop for coffee and I hope that this silly fashion passes quickly.

Don't worry... as soon as Thailand gets Amazon and a reliable postal system this silly fashion of having book shops will pass faster than you can say skinny latte. Coffe shops might still be around though.

[Ulysses G.]

I go to a book shop for books, and a coffee shop for coffee and I hope that this silly fashion passes quickly.

Don't worry... as soon as Thailand gets a reliable postal system this silly fashion of having book shops will pass faster than you can say skinny latte.

TIT. We will all have passed into the afterlife for quite some time by then.