Not that it's a surprise, but livability.com just named Portland, Oregon as
#1 in its Top 10 Cities for Book Lovers! Portland has 139 bookstores, arguably the most per capita in the nation (I've seen a few competing statistics). We also have the largest new and used bookstore in the world, the almighty
Powell's City of Books.
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| Powell's |
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| It's a little more manageable than Powell's, and equally as fun for browsing |
Then there's the Multnomah County Library, which has the second-highest circulation rate in the country, second only to the New York Public Library. According to
this news release, "For the ninth year in a row, Multnomah County Library patrons have checked out and renewed more items than patrons of any other U.S. library serving fewer than one million residents. With a population of about 735,000, that’s an average of about 31 items checked out or renewed for every man, woman, and child in Multnomah County."
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| The historic Central Library downtown |
Sheer coincidence that this English major/writer-editor/book lover was born and bred in Portland (well, actually, a suburb)...I think not!
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