The building is festooned with antique details, from ancient silver radiators and beautiful old cash registers. The building itself is a treasure trove, even aside from the books.
On the highest floor, you had to turn on the lights depending on which aisle you were browsing. Not sure why this struck me as such a gorgeous feature but it did.
There were... just so, so many books. An obscene amount. Something out of a fairy tale-- well, my kind of fairy tale, anyway.Seriously, there are several floors (the basement, the ground floor, and two more floors accessible to the public) just jammed wall-to-wall with books.
The Ohio Book Store used to be a book bindery. Well, it still serves that function, but that used to be its claim to fame. Many of the rare books were bound in-house, and in the basement the bindery is still up and running.
The Ohio Book Store: http://ohiobookstore.net/
