The tacky blue building with the white trim and drive-thru is home to a 200,000-plus collection of used and antiquarian books. The cozy interior features several rooms’ worth of selections casually arranged by genre and a smattering of comfortable armchairs for those shoppers who like to linger. Various unique, interesting and rare reading materials are also available, like back issues of Parabola — a quarterly magazine about the study of myths, rituals, symbols and the art of spiritual traditions — and a collection of incunabula (books, sheets and/or images from books printed before 1501). Owner Jeff Morris is a helpful, friendly, almost constant presence who seems to thoroughly enjoy serving his customers, and he offers fair trade in cash or store credit for unwanted, gently-used books
This article appears in Sep 19-25, 2007.