Gonna have to disagree--I love Powell's! Last time I was there I got an out of print Russian cookbook, a handful of oldschool Caldecott and Newberry Award winners from before the 1980s/90s when awards actually meant something (today these awards are basically a participation trophy for being on the progressive stack), and some foreign language books that are very hard to get in the US.
It's a great pace for general searching, but specifics can get annoying. I went looking for videogame history and found 3 books. Car design had a book. The comics selection was nice though.
Gonna have to disagree--I love Powell's! Last time I was there I got an out of print Russian cookbook, a handful of oldschool Caldecott and Newberry Award winners from before the 1980s/90s when awards actually meant something (today these awards are basically a participation trophy for being on the progressive stack), and some foreign language books that are very hard to get in the US.
This was probably 7-8 years ago.
It's a great pace for general searching, but specifics can get annoying. I went looking for videogame history and found 3 books. Car design had a book. The comics selection was nice though.