Don't toss the map aside, even if you've been here before. The store has recently expanded, and you'll need the map as you wend your way through rows housing more than a million volumes, from murder mysteries to biographies, literature to romance novels, picture books on antique autos to medical explanations, philosophical treatises to sports histories. Here, the Dewey Decimal System has finally been deciphered. Listed on the map alphabetically, thank you, in the Orange Room, which also happens to be the 500s. They're all here.
Couples wander arm in arm, clearly on a date.
I'm still in mysteries. On a bench, near the small art gallery, Bridgit Jordan of Portland is reading the latest Harry Potter book. Powell's is on her must-do itinerary for anyone visiting from out of town. There's good reading space. I like the mix of new and used books.