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What
they say about Baggins Book Bazaar:
"Best place in Britain for a bookworm to burrow
It is a
bookworm's paradise. More than half-a-million hardbacks and
paperbacks line the shelves, covering every topic under the sun. You
will probably never have seen so many books under one roof -- there
are libraries that are ill-stocked compared with Baggins Book Bazaar
in Rochester High Street ... Customers come from as far away as the
United States to see what literary delights have arrived since their
last trip, while customers from the continent are regulars" --
Medway News, 29/11/1996
"Messing about with books
... Just past
[Rochester] Guildhall is the fabulous Baggins Book Bazaar, which
claims to be the largest second-hand bookshop in Britain (not an
unusual claim, it has to be said, but this is big enough to be close
to the truth). The modest shop front belies its meandering corridors
... [L]iterature [is] upstairs at the back, and history, geography,
science, biography and novels [are] downstairs. There are plenty
more bookshops [in Rochester], though none of them are anything like
as big" -- Guy de la Bedoyere in The Independent, 14/11/1998
The verdict from Drif (who has never yet found a bookshop he
likes):
"Almost
as lg [large] as it is dull. Only worth visiting on Sundays and Bank
Holidays" -- Drif's Guide to the Secondhand Bookshops of the
British Isles, 1995--97 (Drif Field Guides, London 1995), p.
206
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