Fantastic bookstore filled with just about every book in existence. For booklovers young and old,…read moreallow a few hours to wander through five rooms of books. Owner is very helpful if you are after any particular titles

QBD stands for Queensland Book Depot, and not surprisingly, started in Queensland. South Australia…read morecurrently has three locations and I have had the odd and unsatisfying browse in the Tea Tree Plaza store. Why is this place thriving when Borders and Angus and Robertson struggled? This chain store looks like a doctor's waiting room and the reading material is somewhat similar. QBD has very little in the way of quality new releases, and the staff look bored and don't seem to know much about the books they're selling. Seems to me that QBD are buying whatever the wholesalers have a lot of, ergo: whatever vampire teen novels are being flat packed that day. QBD don't actually even have a literature section, they just have a small 'classics' shelf with a random collection of authors from Joanne Harris to Marcus Zusack. I get why people like it, you can grab discounted cook books and teen novels very cheap for gifts. But this fluoro ode to discounts leaves me cold.

Super friendly staff that will search the store and the far corners of the Internet to find you…read morethat book you're looking for. They also have a good range of hard to find pop culture books like 'goodnight iPad' & 'go the f*** to sleep' They are also faster than amazon by an average of 3 weeks. Viva the return of the bookshop! Death to the Internet stores!

The Book Boys have 8 stores in Adelaide and are a South Australian company that started in 2005…read more Similar to QBD, they stock large numbers of heavily discounted books, and much more non fiction than fiction. By shopping here you are supporting local business which is good, but The Book Boys aren't really supporting high quality literature which is bad. The shelves are largely sci fi, vampire porn, poor quality chick lit and cook books. Sorry dudes, but it's like you're picking your stock from the Women's Weekly Top Ten lists. Like QBD they have a small 'literature' section next to the equally disrespected poetry shelves. This area is the only place in the whole store I would actually find a good novel that I'd like to buy, but unfortunately recent releases don't seem to be stocked by this chain. This is another book store that I try to avoid: clinical, mostly badly written novels, but at low low prices.

Book boys is great for finding gifts for those people you have no idea what to buy and don't want…read moreto spend a lot. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has some of these on their list? I know that chances are I can find something for almost anyone in here (yes I know these gifts will probably end up in the back of a wardrobe, or re-gifted the following year-hopefully not back to me though! That would be awkward!). There are a lot of these discount type bookstores around, and book boys isn't that much different to the rest.