Exploring Hobart: A Charming Book Village In Upstate New York

This small Upstate New York town is filled with bookstores, making it a bona fide book village. Since 2005 the village has been home to around six bookstores and has experienced a resurgence of tourism from book shoppers.

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Welcome to Hobart, New York, home to fewer than 500 residents and the only Book Village on the East coast. Paradise to those that love to read and explore a town entirely made up of book stores. The perfect weekend getaway, especially because most of these stores are only open on weekends in the Fall and Winter.

Hobart Book Village was established in 2005 and today has approximately a dozen or more book shops. Here are some of the locations that you will find in Hobart, which is about an hour from Albany.

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Liberty Rock Books - With 5,000 square feet of books on Main Street Hobart, NY.

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WM. H. Adams Antiquarian Book Shop - The original! The very first book shop in this Book Village, 602 Main Street, Hobart, NY.

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Quarry Books - 645 Main Street, Hobart, NY. To make this place even more unique, payment is cash or check on the honor system. For a complete list of book shops and fun facts about the only Book Village on the East coast, click HERE.

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