Shop Hop: Bart's Books - Ojai, CA

It's been a while since our last Shop Hop post. Like all good book lovers, we cannot resist a bookstore, often seeking them out when we travel. Shop Hop is a way for us to showcase some of the bookstores that we come across in our travels.

Over the summer I went to Ojai, CA for the first time. Ojai is a picturesque, rural city north of Los Angeles near Santa Barbara that has wine tasting, beautiful vistas and much more. I was there for a relaxing bachelorette weekend.  My friend, knowing me well, did some research ahead of time and found out that Bart's Books was a well known and popular bookstore in the area.

Bart's is the largest independently owned outdoor bookstore. There are walls but there is no ceiling for most of the shop. Natural sunlight provides the lighting for the shop and it closes every day at sunet. The store is packed with wall to wall books with many aisles of books in between.

Everything is really well organized by genre in alphabetical order. The books spend most of their time outside in the sun and other elements and most of them are in good, but not mint, condition.