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| - Ok since Dave B got the stink out of the way, I need to come in and review the store itself. It DOES smell a little musty, and my son also fled outside with Dave, but it really didn't bother me at all.
Walking in I immediately loved it... it's just the kind of wonderful, overstuffed, local used bookstore that booklovers feel at home in (let's face it, Bookman's and Half-Priced Books aren't homey). They have a cute patio, and a community room that is used and shared for all sorts of things, which I think is very cool. (and it's next to Urban Bean, GREAT coffee which makes this a really great little area.
My only beef with the place is the layout. The organization is somewhat lacking... or more to the point, it's overorganized. They've tried to be too specific and thus split things out way too much, and I had to browse through 3 related sections before stumbling upon the books I was looking for. The book could have been in all 3 sections, which to me means that maybe they all should have been one section?
I'm an overorganizer myself and I would probably be paralyzed with indecision if someone asked me to organize a whole bookstore, plus it's a given in a store like that that if I had just asked the clerk they could have taken me directly to what I wanted, so I consider this mildly annoying, but not a deterrent.
But the prices were great, and just being in a tiny aisle with books towering over me makes me happy, so I'll consider this my new bookstore.
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