Powell's is a Hyde Park Institution. Catering to the University of Chicago crowd for years, Powell's stocks an extremely eclectic variety of used books. Since this is a University community we are talking about, most of the books here have an academic bent to them, true, so you do have to have some scholarly interests to get the most out of it. They also put out books for free on the sidewalk now and then, although these are even more obscure than the ones inside.
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