Definitely worth watching. Learned a lot about an industry that has helped shape generations of avid readers

I love books & I read a lot, so I found this documentary fascinating.

I found some of the characters featured to be fascinating and I also found that the movie had some great nuggets about why books are so important. However, I also thought the movie jumped around a lot and tried to contain too many people and too many small vignettes from all the people they talked too. It was like the people making the film did not want to play favorites or hurt anyone's feelings. Because of this, I felt like the movie never got as deep or made a strong as an impression as it could have. I think it might have been smarter to focus on four or five of the booksellers and follow their stories more closely. How they started, what they actually do in the course of the day, how it impacts their life and then the future of their craft. They touched on at the end how some of the booksellers did not see a future in their profession beyond themselves. There was a younger woman on the end who worked in the field and said she had many ideas and was very optimistic. I wanted to hear her thoughts but then it just jumped to the next person. The movie gave extra time to selling a famous book of Leonardo Da Vinci's notes to Bill Gates at an auction to a man showing a bunch of drawings of fish in a book. All in all, I still enjoyed the documentary but it left me feeling like there was more of a story still left about people who find and sell rare and old books.

What a fascinating documentary about book sellers. It's very interesting how book sellers and expensive book buyers are. I highly recommend this for your average collector of anything. Every collector has the same mindset and it shows in this movie. Yes it only talks about book collectors but we collectors are all the same. Great documentary.

What a fascinating documentary about book sellers. It’s very interesting how book sellers and expensive book buyers are. I highly recommend this for your average collector of anything. Every collector has the same mindset and it shows in this movie. Yes it only talks about book collectors but we collectors are all the same. Great documentary.

Lots to love for the analog types and history buffs - and a message that preaches to the choir. Lots of "independent bookstore" footage but seasoned film goers will probably feel like they're seeing a bunch of shorts rather than a cohesive presentation. Absent a narrator, we are whisked from story to story without having a chance to sit down and read as much as a page in its entirety. Colorful personalities make up for the meandering storybits and underwhelming music.

When a rare younger book dealer enthusiastically says she is full of ideas and hope for the future of the trade, there is no follow up whatsoever and the begrudging documentary turns back to its theme of the slow, gasping, grasping death of independent rare book sellers. They bemoan the loss of mystique to Amazon and other book-selling sites that remove the need for a quest and remove the ability of individual booksellers to randomly set prices for "rare" books that the internet now allows people to learn true price and true rarity for themselves. Darwin's law of evolution is not really survival of the fittest, but survival of those who adapt. The old guard is not adapting and so they are dying. The dilemma is: have they closed ranks to women, minorites and young dealers for so long that they've laid the groundwork for their own obsolesense? Great peak into some interesting amassing of books by hoarders/collectors. (The difference being how organized you are?) And there are some glimmers of hope that the film doesn't really explore but does touch on. Like -- 'everyone I see reading books on the subway are in their 20s.' And no more information on that possible trend is looked into. (That people are using digital books is bemoaned, but does not acknowledge that publishers have spelled their own doom by printing smaller and tighter text to save paper whilst alientaing the over-40 reader... which are the very folks most likely to use an e-reader (Kindle, et al) which allows them to enlarge the font. Worth seeing, but leaves one feeling there was little overview and little exploration of what's emerging.

The Booksellers is about you're not going to believe this... people who sell books. It also chronicles people who buy them and, in fact, the doc covers every nook and cranny of the industry for the layman. If you're into this kinda thing you're gonna love this and if you're not it's still a well-made tale that does tend to drag if you're not entirely interested in the subject because some of the talking heads despite having great passion for the subject, just aren't that interesting. If there's something missing here about the topic I didn't catch it! Final Score: 6.7/10

This documentary takes a deep dive into the worrisome world of bookshops, bringing to light the uncertain future of printed books as we predict it.

The title should be Antiquarian booksellers. If you like rare books this film can be interesting. I am a reader but not a bookcollector.

Bibliomaniacs unite! Fans of Basbanes' 'A Gentle Madness' will revel in this dissection of the rare book trade from medieval to modern. There is a bit of a loose feel to the flow between subjects, and the final take on the apocalyptic digitization and the death knell of the physical book is rather exaggerated in some cases; at one point they show an image of someone riding a physical bike in a VR headset, which is downright funny. Still, the passion is evident in the stories and creates an enjoyable experience. (4/5)

Absolutely fantastic. Want to watch it again.

Unlike many wonderful documentary features I've seen that broaden their scope of appeal to become universally accessible and share relevant and connecting insights, The Booksellers is anything but that. I found it boring, lacking in intimacy and relevance, and presented in a very standard format.

This was some pretty good book porn but I wish the filmmakers were a little more thorough in identifying the speakers and giving context.

A documentary talking about books is always interesting, and it is great to hear about life of booksellers, to see those bookshops full of books, to know stories about books and authors. However, there is a moment documentary loses itself and talks about books just visual and monetary objects, and do not talk about their contents and book phylosophy.

Very interesting take on book stores and sellers Am a reader and am guilty of going digital but do buy books every now and then But the rare books and collections is not something I had any idea that was very interesting Fascinating people great interviews and amazing women in the buisness

Book lovers will find this doc informative and very interesting but it's too long. Cutting 1/2 hour out would help it becoming less repetitive.

Music if the foreground was fabulous. Meeting all the booksellers and getting the history of sellers of books was fascinating n

A fantastic view into the fascinating hidden world of the independent bookseller and collector.

It's a documentary about a fascinating sub-culture of quirky characters. It drags a bit in spots.It is a series of profiles of a collection of book dealers.