It the worlds largest outdoor bookstore. A really fun place to visit where you can enjoy the open air and sit under a market umbrella to have a read. Or you can wind thru its labyrinth of bookshelves & aisles and discover something new.

If you can make it out there I highly recommend it

http://theartofstayingupallnight.blogspot.com/2010/08/amazing-bookshops-around-world-libreria.html

The address (although in Venice addresses aren’t of all that much use) is the following:

Calle Longa Santa Maria Formosa,
5176 – Castello 30122 Venezia

It has two entrances. The first time I was in Venice I found it by accident, as I went in through the back, through a small courtyard, and ended up in a long room which had a gondola in the middle. The bookstore itself is composed of random rooms, absurdly connected, some halfway hidden. It’s a joy to wander through. The books were literally everywhere: wooden chests, shelves, chairs, tables, the floor, there’s no real order to them. Although they are arranged thematically (there’s this whole room dedicated to detective novels, or “gialli”, as they’re called in Italy), you can find anything anywhere, really. They have books in several languages, and quite a number of old/rare prints as well. Oh, and a few friendly cats too!

I think it should have definitely made this list.

Oh, and Shakespeare & Co still housed writers/poets/people last time I was there. There was quite an assortment of people living within the library. One of the people I talked to was writing at a table, using an antiquated typing machine. Very bohemian.

Powell’s in Portland is 10x better.