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Best book, music and video shops in Tbilisi
The 10 most notable book, music and video shops in Tbilisi, 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.
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1
Vodkast Records
0108, In Fabrika's Courtyard, 8 Egnate Ninoshvili St
412 m from Marjanishvili, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.460, percentile 100 of 12
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2
They Said Books Coffee Shop
ახვლედიანის ხეივანი 10
770 m from Avlabari, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.139, percentile 90.91 of 12
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3
Books From Past
Flat 2, 10 Giorgi Akhvlediani St
211 m from Rustaveli, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.111, percentile 81.82 of 12
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4
Parsek 1
19 Vakhtang Orbeliani St
576 m from Liberty Square, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.096, percentile 72.73 of 12
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5
შაქრო ბაბუა / Grandpa Shaqro
2 ა. ჭავჭავაძე ჩიხიდან 5
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 1.955, percentile 63.64 of 12
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6
Old Book Story
30/6 Ivane Javakhishvili Street
743 m from Marjanishvili, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 1.882, percentile 54.55 of 12
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7
წიგნის სახლი ბახტრიონზე
ბახტრიონის ქუჩა 11
606 m from Technical University, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.730, percentile 45.45 of 12
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They Said Books
გიორგი ახვლედიანის ქუჩა 10
213 m from Rustaveli, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.569, percentile 36.36 of 12
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9
Itaka Books
5 Shota Nishnianidze St
332 m from Liberty Square, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.537, percentile 27.27 of 12
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10
Prospero's Books
34 Shota Rustaveli Ave
434 m from Rustaveli, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.492, percentile 18.18 of 12
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).