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Best book, music and video shops in Ahmedabad

The 10 most notable book, music and video shops in Ahmedabad, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.

  1. 1

    Kumbh Design Incorporated

    A-103/B, Ganesh Meridian, Opp. Kargil Petrol Pump, Nr. New Gujarat High, Court, Sarkhej - Gandhinagar Highway, Sola

    listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.237, percentile 100 of 11

  2. 2

    Lok Patrika Media House

    72, City Centre, Near Swastik Cross Road, Chimanlal Girdharlal Road, Navrangpura

    252 m from SP Stadium metro station, metro

    listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 2.092, percentile 90 of 11

  3. 3

    CEE Nature Shop

    Centre for Environment Education

    289 m from Ahmedabad Junction railway station, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 2.027, percentile 80 of 11

  4. 4

    Rajni Book & Stationeries

    G-28, Aniket Complex, Chimanlal Girdharlal Rd, opposite Jain Temple

    739 m from SP Stadium metro station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 1.903, percentile 70 of 11

  5. 5

    Book Bazaar

    Book Bazaar 6th Floor, Swastik Square, Jawahar Cross Road, Maninagar

    listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.887, percentile 60 of 11

  6. 6

    Mahajan Book Depot

    Gandhi Rd, Fernandes Bridge, near Central Bank of India

    546 m from Gheekanta metro station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 1.817, percentile 50 of 11

  7. 7

    Zaveri Agency

    ZAVERI AGENCY NR:CHANDRA VIHAR GUEST HOUSE,UNDER FERNANDEZ BRIDGE,GANDHIROAD

    654 m from Shreyas, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.764, percentile 40 of 11

  8. 8

    Vijay Stationary & Seasonable

    no.5 Taluka panchayat shopping opp. TELEPHONE Exchange bus stand road

    304 m from Kalol Jn railway station, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 1.716, percentile 30 of 11

  9. 9

    Book Shelf

    16, City Centre, C G Road, Opp.Dominoz Pizza, Near Swastik Char Rasta, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380009

    255 m from SP Stadium metro station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.91 · rank score 1.583, percentile 20 of 11

  10. 10

    Agrawal Book Store

    Ratnanabh Complex, Ashram Rd, opposite SBI Bank

    617 m from Usmanpura, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.485, percentile 10 of 11

How this list is made

Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:

attestation by independent providers
+0.35
record completeness (website, phone, address)
+0.25
Overture existence confidence
+0.20
Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
+0.40
brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
−0.15
same-name chain collision
−0.30

Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.

No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste

Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.

The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.

Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.

Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.

Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).