This store gets points for a pleasing appearance and for hosting literary events. The staff is also adequate--at least they stay out of the way. But the books here look like they've been sitting around forever, as if maybe they were picked up at the buck-a-bag stage of a library sale ten years ago. You know, crop management manuals from the seventies and scuffed ten-pound volumes of translated German poetry. I'm sure some gems are mixed in, but I don't have time to hunt for them. I always come out empty-handed.
Both Frugal Muse and Half Price do a better job of selecting stock, keeping it in circulation instead of cluttering the shelves with books nobody's ever going to buy. My husband likes St. Vinnie's when he's ready for a new stack of sci-fi.