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The formerly subterranean shop has left its basement digs on Cathedral Hill and found a second life above ground in downtown St. Paul.

The store will (book)mark the occasion with five days of literary festivities and a formal ribbon-cutting ceremony at 11 a.m. Friday at 6 W. Fifth St. (Find the 

But anyone who has ever had to move their own book collection has to be thinking: How do you move an entire bookstore?

 of schlepping, sweating and alphabetizing

Matt Keliher, a SubText bookseller who helped oversee the move, stumbled across the perfect book while packing up: F. Scott Fitzgerald's "On Booze."

"That made for some easy reading after the dog days of the move," he said.

According to SubText, this is the first time downtown St. Paul has had a full-service, independent bookstore in more than 20 years.

They opened their doors while still unpacking, and customers have already been stopping in for summer reading recommendations.  

"I'm excited about Catie Disabato's debut novel 'The Ghost Network,' said Keliher. "It's a genre-busting philosophical mystery that deals with conspiracy theories and popular music in the underbelly of Chicago. It was recently reviewed in the 

There's more where that came from, now at the corner of 5th and Wabasha.

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You need to have a strong back and solid grasp of the alphabet to relocate thousands of books, as SubText Books in St. Paul recently found out.

How do you move an entire bookstore?

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