North Philly Book Tower

07/01/2025

Make sure to visit Professor Readzalot Used Books at 2637 Germantown Avenue!

06/09/2025

See how beautiful Germantown Ave was?

It still has parts that look like that.

As a matter of fact, come to Germantown Ave - we're waiting for you at 2637 on the avenue.

SEPTA Route 23 Trolley on Germantown Avenue in 1978. Image credit: Mitch Libby (photographer)

04/05/2025

When we started to enlarge the store I meant to post daily updates, but it has been a circuitous route, to say the least, to get to this point and the daily challenges of building a store put Facebook out of mind. But the newly enlarged Professor Readzalot is starting to take shape and look like a bookstore. Here's some pics to prove it!

04/02/2025

Good afternoon, friends.
Here's a little something I've been accused of more than once:

1. the practice of buying a lot of books and keeping them in a pile because you…

12/23/2024

We've been doing a lot of work on the expansion of Readzalot Used Books at 2637 Germantown Avenue during the slow winter season. Now we have enough room to have real sections: bookcases devoted to subjects, instead of a shelf or two. Here's Philosophy, Psychology, Art, and Criticism. Make sure to come down and check out our work in progress.

11/16/2024

Missing his subway stop was never a problem before he discovered Professor Readzalot Used Books at 2637 Germantown Avenue, steps away from the Lehigh Avenue stop of Septa's 23 bus.

11/08/2024

We carry Hood Novels! 2637 Germantown Avenue. Monday-Saturday 12-6. Professor Readzalot Books.

11/05/2024

I just checked out the raw space upstairs before work begins. The place is huge, it's room after room. I actually got a little confused finding my way out...I want the type of bookstore you can spend all day in and get lost.

11/05/2024

The door to our second floor has been installed. Its just a matter of a few months of back breaking work, and Readzalot second floor will be open.

11/05/2024

Work continues on Readzalot's expansion. The doorway is being worked on, and the stairway...which will lead to a world of books, is becoming visible.

11/02/2024

Well the papers have been signed, and Professor Readzalot is growing up...three stories in which to house all our stories. The 2nd and 3rd floors at 2637 Germantown Avenue became available and we have so many books we decided to snap them up. It's a huge project as you can imagine, and the first step begins Monday when workmen knock a doorway through to the stairs. We had to move the bookcases housing the children's section out of the way, no small task in itself. Fortunately, our new protege Aimee is here to help every step of the way.