The store is cool and the selection is good, though dated. The prices, however, are pretty outrageous. A quick price comparison on my iphone revealed that many of the used books being sold there can be purchased elsewhere new for half as much, sometimes less. For example, I was tempted to buy E. D. Klemke's book, The Epistemology of G. E. Moore (NUP, 1969), which was priced there at $40. I could get it new off Amazon for $13 or used for $2! \r
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If the prices had been reasonable, I would have been happy to give the guy $30 or $40 for 5-8 used books. Instead, I left with no books. The owner is only hurting himself.\r
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And any fear of running out of stock by dropping prices would be unwarranted; he's got mountains of boxes of books collecting dust all over the store. \r
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The key to a successful used bookstore is reasonable prices and a constantly rotating stock. This bookstore has neither of those virtues, which is sad because it really is a neat place.
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