If you’ve lived in Pune long enough or are a student or a bibliophile, you know where to go to stock up on your reading material. Appa Balwant Chowk in Budhwar Peth is a whole alley of books that you can browse through at leisure.
Semesters Up! Sell Your Textbooks And Get New Ones At ABC
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What Makes It Awesome?
If you begin at the mouth of Appa Balwant Chowk, outside Aadarsh Book Corner you’ll find a little street stall with various titles. And if you rummage around long enough, you can pick up second-hand copies and ditch the pirated ones instead. We found an original reprint of Jawaharlal Nehru’s Discovery of India for INR 600, a few first edition prints of the Harry Potter series and various titles in original hard-bounds.
Students can walk into any one of the bookstores and exchange your last semester’s textbooks for new ones. You can buy them on a return basis and get a 10-20 per cent discount on your new purchases or a 30-40 per cent cash back. It’s super convenient and also helps you save so much money.
The whole market is ideal for your back-to-school shopping. You can buy stationery, notebooks, textbooks and stock up on a range of other titles, be it history, English literature, Marathi literature among others.
It’s also a great spot to stock up on office supplies. You can easily get things in bulk and at a much lesser price in comparison to other stores around Pune. What’s great about ABC is that it easily works as a wholesale and a retail market, so you get the best of both worlds.
What Could Be Better?
We’d love to see an exchange of novels too. A return scheme on novels will help us declutter the house more often, don’t you think?
Pro-Tip
Spend hours browsing through books sold by street vendors, you’ll definitely find first edition copies or original reprints. Avoid buying pirated books, please?
