Skoob Books

Founded by former employees of the closing down Poole’s, the first Skoob shop was a lock-up, previously used for market barrows, in Covent Garden. Students, academics and office workers made the Sicilian Avenue manifestations of Skoob (two adjacent shops) their first port of call for out-of-print books for 20 years. There was also a branch in Bury Place and three international shops. Today, Skoob is located near the Brunswick Centre in Bloomsbury.

Skoob aims to facilitate learning by preserving, cleaning and marketing out-of-print, scarce and otherwise unavailable books. It’s committed to recycling knowledge and reclaiming secondhand books.