Baltimore Books, Mags, Music and Video

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1. Atomic Books

Great independent bookstore filled with comics, graphic novels, quirky gifts, CDs and DVDs, anime, erotica, magazines and a huge collection of zines.   Helpful but slightly snarky staff members...

2. The Sound Garden

This might be my favorite record store (actually CD store) next to Amoeba (both the SF and Berkely stores).  They have a great selection, new and used (the used selection is actually really good...

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1. The Sound Garden

This might be my favorite record store (actually CD store) next to Amoeba (both the SF and Berkely stores).  They have a great selection, new and used (the used selection is actually really good...

2. Atomic Books

This place is wonderful. I could spend hours in here just browsing through all of their books and comics, their zines and cards and fun knickknack and the small but juicy music and dvd selection...

3. The Book Thing

and are encouraged to take as many as you please by the "BE GREEDY" signs on the wall. Four large rooms full of books, entirely free!  For a free bookstore, the selection is certainly impressive. While...

4. Baltimore Chop

for this coffee junkie.  5-stars for the coffee, and a decent selection of pastries, 17 different types of bagel and other goodies which I haven't yet tried, although I did hear the other patrons waxing...

5. Red Emma's Bookstore…

graphic novel selection even though it is only one shelf (think Will Eisner, Daniel Clowes and R Crumb--the books they have written but the buyer at Borders doesn't pick up for mass distribution...

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