Technical book store in GTA?

[James Knott]

Christopher Browne wrote:
> On 5/27/05, Paul Mora <paulmora-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>On 5/26/05, Erebus <erebus-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>>And there used to be a chain called "Canada Computer Books" that had stores
>>>in Waterloo, Mississauga and Toronto. But then they vanished too. I bought
>>>quite a few books in their store (and always thought it was the kind of
>>>store I would love to own some day).
>>Yeah, I loved going to Toronto Computer Books on Yonge St. north of
>>College.  I bought a ton of stuff from them, everything from the
>>Yggdrasil (sp) Linux distro to OReilly books.  They always had a great
>>Linux/Unix section, and the old computers they had on the shelf above
>>the books were cool to look at.
>>
>>A store like that would be "fun" to run, but ultimately it doesn't
>>make a whole lot of money.
> 
> It's worth keeping in mind that most of the "putatively technical"
> stores around are in fact nothing of the sort.

FWIW, I stopped by the Chapters at Steeles and Yonge this morning.
They've rearranged the store (again) and I was shocked to see how small
the computer section has become.  If you're looking for some serious
computer or networking books, you can pretty well forget about that
store.  This same store used to have an excellent selection, rivaling
the "Computer Books" stores.
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