Absolutely massive inventory covering all genres and consisting of both new and used stock. Very…read morewell organized and good prices. *important to note there are two separate storefronts with separate entrances!* on the left is all things rock and on the right is jazz, soul, R&B, and reggae. Plan to spend a long time crate digging here. Mostly vinyl with a decent amount of CD inventory in the same genres. Best selection and vibes I've encountered in Paris.

I've read the one star reviews from others claiming that the staff is not friendly and the store is…read more"not for collectors". They are full of it. Crocodisc's staff are friendly and go out of their way to help you find what you are looking for. They even make great recommendations. I love this store and make sure I visit whenever I'm in Paris. I alway find fantastic items at reasonable prices. Thanks Crocodisc. Vous etes le meilleur!

All you need in one place. HUGE store with lots of options, and in many languages too. My favorite…read morebookstore in Paris.

Probably one of the best music stores I have ever been too, Gibert stocks a staggering selection of…read moremusic from France, Africa, Britain, America, and well beyond. Located near St Michel metro, the store is very close to the Latin Quarter as well as the Jardins de Luxembourg. Dealing in more than genres, Gibert has the ability to find you browsing for hours as you move from Reggae to Rock to Avant-Garde to Celtic to pretty much anything else. But it gets even better, as they also stock a lot of very well-priced 2nd-hand music and also deal in hard-to-find music magazines (such as Punk Planet) at very reasonable prices. Worth setting aside an hour or two for during your visit to Paris if you can, Gibert is one place you'll remember fondly long after leaving the city.

One of my favorite bookstores in Paris, mostly because of the store's sheer diversity.read more

Maintenant à 37 rue St Ambroise dans l'11ème Now at 37 rue…read moreSt Ambroise in the 11th Et maintenant plus grand que d'ailleurs Now bigger than ever. There are very few LGBTQ bookstore left anywhere in the world, and maybe only a city as large and as intellectually active as Paris can sustain one. Les mots à la bouche has everything a gay reader could wish: social theory and the history of drag, emerging queer novelists and the inspiring works of James Baldwin, Gertrude Stein, Edmund White, Jean Cocteau. It is the one indispensable stop for the queer traveler/ reader in Paris. Plenty of books in English, too. Afterwards you can go to Père Lachaise and drop in on Oscar Wilde. Dear Oscar. How he would have loved this shop. How he would have cruised the boys who come here

The shop no longer carries new bande dessinee and only has a small very miscellaneous stock of…read morecheap, used BD.

I only went there for the VINYLS! They have a box in the…read morefront of the store 0,50 euro any vinyl. The box is updated every few hours. Inside there are about 24 drawers with vinyls but NO order, NO specific category, but they add the new arrivals every few hours. The vinyls have small white labels with the date of entering the store and the price. Inside the store only the PROMO drawer has vinyls at 0,50 euro. The prices of vinyls from the other drawers are from 1 euro to 10 euro (most are over 3 euro), but there are only used vinyls, most of them with classical music (walses, opera, concerts) or french music. I spent few hours today browsing EVERY vinyl and I can say there are few american vinyls, most french or french edition or french music. I was lucky to find Sam Brown "Stop" single and Sandra "Maria Magdalena" single. There is also another section with 45 RPM singles at 1 euro piece. I could see a clerk labeling the fresh-received vinyls with a label gun. He brought the vinyls every hour and put them in the "NEW ARRIVALS" box. The CDs are sealed with some transparent tape and there was a tentative of alphabetical order (you could see some names, letters) but the chaos was the best word to descriebe that area. The plastic bags for the vinyls/books/etc are free :D

From the owner: Spécialiste du Cd classique d'occasion; nous vous offrons plus de 18000 références essentielles,…read morerares et épuisées sur une surface de 125 m. La musique classique n'aura plus de secret pour vous ! Une expérience de plus de 18 ans à votre service.

Sooooo...!! Me happy! Great music collection, very…read morereasonable prices and the guy? He really knows his stuff. We walked out with 3 bags of records. Jazz, African, reggae, funk, some old Rnb. Mostly second hand or ..."vintage" it is a great shop. The owner is a very friendly guy, dog on the sofa, very bad record players with headphones that suck big time....so? To check if we liked them, if they were not too dry/grey/dead on the groove...? We played our records on his system and filled the shop with our music. See you next time!!

I've been waiting my lp for more than a year. I have asked many times for the refund but they don't…read moreanswer. I want my money back!

FNAC is a large French electronic retailer. They have a nice assortment of televisions, video…read moregames, computer software and hardware, Apple products, CDs, DVDs, books, home electrics, and a large children's department. They also sell tickets and have photography services. My favorite departments are music and books which seem to be difficult to find in a store today. They have a large music department that includes every genre from around the world. They have both CDs and vinyl. FNAC also has a large assortment of books in many categories. I have had good luck locating items which have been impossible to find from other retailers. Complimentary wi-fi. www.fnac.com & @Fnac

FNAC saved my vacation....years ago used to frequent this place to buy concert tickets as a…read morestudent. A broken computer cord and dead camera battery brought me in this time....very helpful staff. I'd avoid buying any brand name MAC stuff here (tres cher) but found a good workaround and got great advice from staff who were very welcoming and seem to take pride in what they do. Wish Best Buy was like FNAC.

My daighter , much like her Grandmother, collects cookbooks. Every city we are going to a bookstore…read morefor a unique cookbook. Librarie Gourmande is an amazing cookbook store mostly offering books in french. Gorgeous books on just about everything you could want to know about cooking baking pastry, meats, etc., etc.

If it were possible to give 6 stars I would…read more Simply a brilliant resource for anyone into the culinary arts. Every visit we find numerous resources and we used to carry them home until the luggage was just getting unmanageable, shipping is so much easier. Isle after isle, bookcase after bookcase of both everyday publications to hard to find gems, they have them all. One visit a trip is never enough, we have a two visit minimum whenever in Paris. Fortunately they is a nice little cafe across the street for me to get refreshed while my chef partner spends a few hours reviewing all they have to offer. Simply a wonderful escape for a couple hours!

I only went there for the VINYLS! There are few boxes with…read morevinyls but all of them are in good and very good condition, other seem to be new. Few pop ones, most rock, jazz, rap. Prices were from 3 euro above. Some boxes were on the floor and was uncomfortable to browse them because you would occupy the area/isle and the space was tiny. This is very close to Boulinier (9 minutes walking).

The CD lives!…read more Record stores with this much charm are rare. This shop is a heaven for music lovers and throwback officianados. Walls and walls of CDs and records surround you in visual organized cacophonic bliss. Also has a lovely book collection with a sweet owner who sits peacefully at the front if the shop to greet you and is not a pushy salesperson at all. Enjoy! It's a rare piece of charm and history.