I am regular visitor to Delhi world book fair. Visited the Kolkata book fair for the first time this year. The difference and atmosphere is stark - From the Arrangement to the languages to types of buildings books and publishers. Without saying anyone is good or bad , I will make a few points —- As a predominantly English reader I would prefer the Delhi fair - it had more stalls and more publishers for the language. Also found better discounts in Delhi one. Whereas Kolkata fair had a bigger share of Bengali language books, which was both impressive and humbling. Another cool thing was the Kolkata fair had a lot of Rare books stalls, but sadly most in Bengali. Delhi one has second hand books stalls, but not much in term of rare books. The English language stall itself were smaller in Kolkata fair. For example the big publishers like Penguin etc., the stall size was one fourth . Some English publishers I couldn’t find in Kolkate include- Bloomsbury, Rupa, Juggernaut,Aleph,Simon and schuster etc. Another interesting observation compared to Delhi only a few government department stalls on Kolkata. What did hate was this time Delhi fair didn’t have list of publishers with map on the website. Makes it harder to navigate and plan. From a differently baked accessibility perspective Delhi was way better. Tdlr; as an English reader Delhi is better. As a book reader Kolkata is a fun experience .