A big, browsable used-and-remaindered bookshop spread over several floors on Bloor Street, BMV is the kind of place the Annex is built for: cheap review copies and remainders downstairs, secondhand stock and graphic novels upstairs, and enough range to lose an afternoon in. Prices are low and the turnover is high.
With the old Annex bookshops thinned out over the years, BMV carries the neighbourhood's literary torch alongside the nearby cinema and cafés. Bring a bag and budget more time than you planned.