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Jul. 5th, 2010 12:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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The Seattle Public Library has a "books spiral." At the core of the building, a very gradual ramp goes around and around an escalator. Bookshelves and reading areas radiate off of the spiral. The floors of the building are designed to correspond to the Dewey Decimal system, so that as you traverse the fifth level you're passing the 500s, and the 600s are on the sixth level, and so on. Movable rubber squares tile the ramp, labeling the adjacent call numbers.
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Date: 2010-07-05 05:16 pm (UTC)I'd also recommend the Troll Bridge and the Seattle Underground tour (http://www.undergroundtour.com/).
Archie McPhee (http://www.archiemcphee.com) is a fun store (or at least it was when I visited it years ago).
If they're into used book stores, there's also Tales Twice Sold (http://www.twicesoldtales.info/) near the University (if they have allergies, beware, the store has cats).