Simply Books

Decent book selection for an airport. I appreciated how the employees created an island of featured books and wrote small reasons why they liked it. Cute personal touch.

I run the @bookdedications Twitter account, so I see lots of bibliophile hangouts! This is a very nice airport bookstore, with all the best-​sellers from the past several years — most airport outlets just offer new books and romance novels. Simply Books is true to its name; the shelves hold big offerings from literature and pop lit. They have a few fluffy gifts and «devotionals,» but not a lot of that clutter. A great place to find and post dedications during my layover!

***This bookstore is located just outside the security checkpoint and it features a lot better book and magazine selection than several of the shops within the terminal (a lot of the airport shops, at least the ones around the United terminal, seem to have a very small magazine selection); that being said, their book selection is still small and makes me have to re-​think my evaluation of SFO’s bookstore (much bigger selection; I might have to explore that store more on my next visit to San Francisco); this Atlanta airport bookstore also features a few Atlanta souvenirs and magnets, candy and travel toiletries***
I am not sure what the parking situation is at Atlanta’s airport, but I imagine parking here is expensive like other airports.

This is a real bookstore that just happens to be in an airport. One review criticizes the store «Books [sic] that people hears about on tv probably isn’t stocked by Simply Books.» Judging by that reviewer’s command of the English language, I’m going to put that in the «pros» column. If I had seen 100 copies of 50 Shades staring at me from any shelf, that would have gone into the «cons» column. I did not. There are sections for children, teens, and even a classics section for those books you skipped in college because you lost at beer pong. I liked it.