Windows Booksellers Portland

03/13/2024

Thought we'd do a post on the old FB account to say Hi to some folks who haven't made the switch to Arches Bookhouse.

We've got some $5 books for browsing here. Pick up in-store for free, or I can ship for $6 + 1.50 for each additional book. Please message to reserve and include picture numbers for each book.

06/11/2022

Help us clear space for the new Arches Bookhouse inventory! Online browsing from our Philosophy section. Book are $5 each. Shipping is $5 + $1 for each additional book.

Message your list or email to [email protected]

23 new items added to shared album

06/01/2022

Day One! I have officially taken over ownership of the shop today. All kinds of bittersweet—thrilled to be starting this new adventure; but I’d be lying if I didn’t confess some disequilibrium finding myself no longer employed by Windows Booksellers for the first time in 17 years.

On to the work though … this wall I’m hiding behind here will be gone next week if all goes to plan. My goal is to open up the interior for more visible browsing and to make the space more amenable to readings and other events. Then painting the exterior, sorting and shelving a few thousand books in storage … and hopefully back open with a party at the end of the month!

Will be posting progress updates here. In the mean time, catch us at the Rose City Book & Paper Fair June 17-18.

Thanks for all the support and good wishes, friends. See you soon!

05/22/2022

Phew! What a weekend.

Thankful for all the dear friends and neighbors who came out to sing this shop to sleep.

Can’t wait to see y’all when she wakes!

05/21/2022

If you like walking into a shop and not seeing a single “meh,” “mediocre,” or even “yeah I liked it ok” book, you need to go visit these stacks in their new home on the shelves of

Seriously, if you can walk into Mitch’s shop and not buy a book, you either don’t have a pulse or you don’t like books. Maybe both! It is the best shop anywhere for fiction, and a lot of other things too.

I’m sorry for the bad photos. But I will not apologize for another day of 50% off in-store books and $1 pb and $2 hc sidewalk books! Come by 10-3:00 tomorrow.

Oh, and $5 grocery bagfuls outside after 1:00.

05/20/2022

These beautiful stacks of sci-fi can now be found at there new home@on the shelves of on Alberta.

It’s the shop you’ve always dreamed of: wall-to-wall, expertly curated, used sci-fi!!

Go check them out!!

If you haven’t made it down to our sale, there is still a wall thick with great sci-fi at 50% off!!

05/20/2022

Day 1 of our 50% off “Reckoning Sale” is in the books!!

Tons more great finds await you tomorrow and Saturday.

Plus! We will have hundreds of $1 pb and $2 hc books going out on the sidewalk tomorrow!!

See you there.

05/18/2022

Our 50% off sale starts tomorrow morning! Sale hours are 10-5:00 Thursday and Friday, 10-3:00 Saturday.

Everything in the shop will be 50% off. No exceptions.

If you haven’t heard, we have a bit of a metamorphosis ahead of us. Our longtime bookseller Adam McInturf will be taking over ownership June 1. After a few weeks in a cocoon of remodeling and restocking, we will be re-emerging as Arches Bookhouse at the end of June.

Speaking of Arches, might as well follow the new page! .

See you tomorrow!

05/14/2022

Some Very Big News!! - https://mailchi.mp/cb2d9392618c/some-very-big-news

04/30/2022

In honor of Independent Bookstore Day we are excited to announce …

Arches Bookhouse!

Our longtime bookseller, Adam McInturf, will be taking over ownership June 1st and relaunching as Arches Bookhouse. May 31st will be the final day of our existence as “Windows Booksellers Portland.” We are so excited for this transition.

Be sure to save the date for our final Great Summer Booksale at the end of May to help clear room on the shelves for all the new inventory waiting to be unveiled in the new shop!

More details to come. Follow for updates.

04/18/2022

“Why do you seek the living among the dead?”

04/14/2022

Some books you really just need the backpacker edition.