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Shops

Basically Books

An independent bookstore stacked with Hawaiʻi titles and maps.

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Our take

Selling books in Hilo since 1985, with a deep shelf of Hawaiiana, island history, and charts for planning the rest of the trip. The kind of shop that turns a rainy Hilo hour into two.

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