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Bill’s Bookmobile is the Best Bookstore on Wheels!

Published August 17, 2011 in Honolulu Weekly

LITERARY / Best bookstore on wheels: Bill’s Bookmobile

In the wake of shuttering bookstores across Honolulu, a lone ranger roves the desolate economic terrain. Parked in the center of Kakaako’s warehouse district, Bill’s Bookmobile features awesome $1–$5 deals on roughly 3,000 used books, movies and music, with all proceeds benefitting the Friends of the Library of Hawaii. With the constant replenishing of recycled texts, you’re constantly in for a new score at this parked paradise of publications, so you’ll definitely want to look both ways while maneuvering through its well-oiled shelves. –

M.D.

690 Pohukaina St., open Mon.–Fri. and first Saturdays of the month, 10am–2pm, [friendsofthelibraryofhawaii.org], 536-4174

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The Friends of the Library of Hawai‘i is a nonprofit organization whose primary objective is to maintain free public libraries in the State of Hawai‘i, to promote extension of library services throughout the State of Hawai‘i and to increase the facilities of the public library system of Hawai‘i by securing materials beyond the command of the ordinary library budget. Other objectives are to focus attention on libraries and to encourage and accept, by bequest or gift, donations of books, manuscripts, money, and other appropriate material that can enrich the cultural opportunities available to the people of Hawai‘i.

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