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Shortly before a recent trip, I finally stopped here for the first time in years. As Rachel mentioned, there's no flair but no biggie. It's simply a haphazard selection of books (and a handful scholarly journals) on wooden shelves organized by subject areas. Would be bumped up to 4 if they had magazines.
The pricing scheme is simple: 50% off the (the usually high) retail price, 60% for 2 items, 70% for 3+ items.
The staff existed but was more interested in sealing envelopes for their online operation..
As for the selection, it's very random with some extremely narrow niches, with usually 2-10 copies of each item. A spanish/english dictionary specific written for ranchers ?! They got it ! Copies of esoteric academic journals like the Austrian History Yearbook from 1985 ? Yep, they got it !
I specifically checked out the travel, language, and computer sections, there's a few travel guides for random places although not from 2012, some were pretty recent, 2011, others, from 2006.... That fared bit better than computer section which all but maybe a handful were from the early 2000s... (perhaps you still need that Admin Guide for Red Hat !?)
I ended picking up a NYT crossword puzzle book [a guilty pleasure] for the plane rides, half off natch.
Don't expect to find a bestseller or anything current but Horizontal is worth visiting if you're in OC and interested to pick up some very random things for cheap. A compliment to Visible Voice in Tremont.
Hope this place sticks around with the gentrification of Ohio City but note they ARE NOT open on the weekends.
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