The third annual Philly Bookstore Crawl is back next Saturday – and is bigger than ever.

The self-guided tour features more than 40 Philly and Philly-area bookstores hosting authors, events and discounted prices on Saturday, Aug. 23.

The crawl’s organizer, Eric Smith, said the event has seen incredible success the last few years and already is changing Philly’s book landscape.

“I like that the event is making Philly something of a fun, bookish destination — because it is one,” he said.

Smith initially left Philly in 2014, when he and his wife moved to Richmond, Va., and Ann Arbor, Mich. One thing he loved: both cities had big book crawls that were “huge celebrations of these bookstores.”

He envisioned creating something similar in Philly if he ever moved back.

“There’s, like, 50 book

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