I noticed this on UseNet, and think some people here will find it
interesting:
						Mike

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From: [email protected] (Steve Jeske)
Subject: 150,000 used books for sale in P.A. (+ some records)
Keywords: books, records, used
Date: 2 Jul 90 21:04:37 GMT

In downtown Palo Alto, maybe 100' South of University on Cowper, an unusual
used book store just opened on Saturday.  It will only exist until 4 August
and is to liquidate the 150,000 used books this man collected, while planning
to open a used book store.  Instead, the story goes, he's taken a job as a
college professor somewhere in Canada, and  doesn't want to take the books
with him.  There are maybe a dozen rooms, with more in the hallways, and the
prices seem more reasonable than at most used book stores.  Lots of pre-sorted
categories, with additional ones being brought out from his bulk storage and
priced/sorted constantly (their sign says only about half are currently
displayed).  If you've been looking for some specific titles, or just like to
browse in such places, you owe it to yourself to check the place out.  They
are open 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., seven days a week, and provide free refreshments,
popcorn, pretzels, corn chips, liquids.  Aside from being a satisfied
customer, I have no connection with the place.  (I just wish I'd been there
Friday night, when they charged $2 admission for the right to buy first.)  

As a minuscule sampling of what the place has to offer, I noticed a 1985
hardback of Samuelson's Economics for $2, more than ten p.b. copies of
Herbert's Dune, five hardbacks of Fixx's running book, more than a dozen
copies of Comfort's The Joy of Sex and Jackson's Color Me Beautiful, some in
hardback, a pocket Chinese-English dictionary as well as a similar one from
Eastern Europe (Czech?), children's books, 20' of shop manuals for a variety
of cars/trucks/cycles, books on planes and flying, hobbies, lots of general
fiction as well as specialized genres: Westerns, SF, mysteries, romances.  I
bought some out-of-print solar energy books, as well as Ian & Sylvia's first
album; I'd been looking for it for a long time.

All in all, a place worth visiting.