Great little bookstore on a side street perpendicular to Istaklal Street. All the great shops are…read moreoff of Istaklal Street, which is way too busy with its big boxy stores that have that same cookie cutter feeling you'd get in most malls. The side streets, on the other hand are the real deal. A truly unique 'cookie' experience. This bookstore is awesome. It even has some English books and comics! BOO-YA! Books flow in a literary waterfall of words from the high ceiling all the way to the ground floor. A wooden shelf tree of beautiful and terrible ideas.

One of the most soulful book stores in İstanbul, and a place that has a long and tumultous history…read more (Did I spell it right?) On the top floor of art gallery SALT, with rows and rows of books both foreign and Turkish language, and a piano that sometimes is played by a random visitor. If you're lucky you may find some special edition screen printed Read More t-shirts made in İstanbul, but mostly they are out of stock.

great English language book collection, amazing prints and hand crafted notebooks. highly suggested.read more

The store owner is acting like a carpet seller. He claims several Turkish Ministry of Culture…read morepublications as rare and tries selling it for exuberant prices. The Ministry's book store is located 200 m away from here. He told me the handbook I was interested is out of print and he can't sell it for his listing price of 500 TL. I picked up the same book from the official store for 14 TL. What a disgrace!

This little toy/supplies store surprised me because i thought the quality of the products would be…read morecheap basically but they were not at all. They looked superior and even felt that way. While walking around I felt like buying a good number of things on the way walls for my friends little child. They even had few toys for adults in a few places. This store is not huge like one the other toy store across from it but this one does have a nice selection to choose from. The employees were really friendly also. I got lucky to find one that understood a little english but even the ones that didn't made a big effort to try and understand and help me in anyway. I recommend you buy your little one the science kit from here by the way!

This café and bookstore was down the street from the hotel and it looked like such a charming spot…read morethat we decided to have breakfast here one of the days. Unfortunately, this is one of those places that look better than it actually is. Food was subpar yet prices were higher than most other places we ate at while in Istanbul.

Very cute coffee house and bookshop. This place seems to attract artists. While there, one person…read morewas taking artistic photographs, another was painting. The coffee is good and service excellent.

From the owner: Arkeoloji özelinde sosyal bilimler alanında olduğu kadar edebiyat ve çocuk kitaplarında da gerek…read moreTürkçe gerek İngilizce kitap seçkimizle Türkiye’nin önde gelen bağımsız kitabeviyiz. Toplam 4 kitabevimiz bulunmakta ve özellikle Beyoğlu’ndaki merkez kitabevimizin bulunduğu eski eser tarihi binamızı ziyaret etmeli, keyifle kitaplarımızı karıştırmalısınız.

This was a really great used bookshop way down Istikial Street from Taksim Square. They had a…read morereally interesting collection of books and a vast assortment of maps, pictures postcards and other ephemera. While the shop was not all that large, although I did not get to go in what appeared to be an upstairs section, there was plenty to look at, and I found myself wishing I had much more time to look for the jewels I knew must be hidden amongst it shelves. At one point I switched from looking at books [and believe me it was painful to do this] to looking at framed Arabic calligraphy, that was hanging on the wall, because I am trying to acquire various examples of calligraphy from different periods of history when ever I can afford to do so. Anyway I very probably would have gotten a book, calligraphy or some other item if I had had just a little bit more time to look before deciding, I don't like feeling too rushed when making decisions, so opted out reluctantly. I was hoping I would either get back here or find another really great used bookstore in Istanbul or some of the other cities we visited in Turkey. As it was I noted carefully as I could the location and name so I could find it on line if possible and write this review. As a lover of books I would love to go here again.

This is by the biggest D&R I have ever been inside of and just from the size it didn't disappoint…read morein quality of the collection of books, games, toys, and magazines. There is even a coffee shop in there for the ultimate relaxation while trying into see if you really want to buy the book or magazine that you are most likely there for! If you need help or recommendations, there are plenty of employees walking around to help you out! Oh yeah and there is a very bug selection of books in English, the magazine selection wasn't as good as I thought it should be for English but better than other places.