Bookstores in Yarmouth

Bookstores reward the browsers. Yarmouth, NS has 2 mapped right now. That's 2 bookshops mapped around Yarmouth, each with its own shelves and specialties. The used sections are where the real bargains hide.

This guide covers every bookstore we could verify in and around Yarmouth (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Used Book Shoppe and Coles. If a bookshop's missing from Yarmouth's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Yarmouth bookstore lineup

2 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about bookstores in Yarmouth

None of the 2 has opening hours in the map data, so treat this as a browse-and-discover trip. Bookshops keep fairly standard hours, so a daytime visit is a safe bet.

The one mapped bookstore sits on 76 Starrs Road — worth combining with whatever else brings you to that side of town.

The Yarmouth bookstore crawl

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Used Book Shoppe and Coles on 76 Starrs Road. That's 2 stops on the Yarmouth bookstore crawl.

Bookstore tips for Yarmouth

A few things worth knowing before you work through Yarmouth's bookstores:

• Note the shop's specialties at Used Book Shoppe. Sci-fi, travel, art books, philosophy — every good shop leans somewhere. Find the lean that matches yours.
• Read the first page in the shop at Coles. The first-page test never lies. If it doesn't grab you standing there, it won't grab you at home.
• Check the cookbook section. Cookbooks are the most browsed and least bought section, which means the used shelf is full of barely-touched gems.
• Don't overlook the classics wall. Every shop has one. Cheap editions of the books everyone claims to have read — your chance to actually read them.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Yarmouth — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new bookstore in Yarmouth can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 2, or a bookstore we missed entirely? The map is the source of truth here — one OpenStreetMap edit corrects it for everyone.

We don't list prices — they change constantly and vary by edition. What we list is the where: real shops, verified by real mappers, in alphabetical order with no favourites.

If you run one of the 2 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.