A few months ago I saw an ad for a used bookstore in a town near us, but I hadn't had time to check it out. We were out today running errands so we ran by to see what they had.

Of course, being very rural means that her selection was not great. Lander said it was a *wharehouse of Harlequin romance novels*. That wasn't quite true, but not far from it.

She had one side of one aisle with children's books. Of course, lots of those were *Babysitter's Club* and the like. I did manage to find several Childhood of Famous American's books for .95  These are the hardback editions so I was extra pleased with that. I also found several history related books and snatched them up. I'm sure that we will read them at some point. I also found one Sonlight book for the coming year, and two for the following year...very happy about that. I think the trip was worth it. I plan to go back as often as I can with a list in hand. She keeps record of her things on her computer so she could actually tell me whether or not she has a certain book. I don't want to overwhelm her though.

Her policy is to allow you to *trade* the books you buy from her in on different books. She gives you a credit for your full purchase price.

I never saw a store like this that gave FULL purchase price credit. Anyway, it works on a 75/25 deal. For instance, the book you bought was $1...so she will give you $1 credit, but when you pick another book for $1 you only get to use .75 credit and pay .25 cash (so she can pay the electric bill and rent on the place). Sounds good to me. Also she will credit you for books you bring in.

I'm planning to go through our books and see if I have any that I really do not want. I didn't notice any hs books, but she did tell me that she has several hs families that frequent the store. So maybe in the future there will be more hs books. I have some Little Golden Books that I know I don't want any longer...and some Disney stuff. I'm sure I would be better off to trade those in.

My poor husband, I had stacks of books on the floor while I was sorting through the shelves. He asked me at one point if I was REALLY going to buy them all. "Well, ummm....yeah...."

He is not a book-lover, and he really does NOT get it at all. Oh well, at least he loves me enough to *fund* my addiction...that I have passed on (thankfully) to my children.