The Dust Jacket
3200 Linwood Ave
Bright atmosphere, with books on every surface, boxes of books were covered with sheets and cloths to create displays for book. The building was obviously originally a home that had doors removed and every room filled with bookshelves and books. However, stock was hardback books, collectible books, expensive books. Not for me.

Duttenhofer’s Books
214 W McMillan
Front of the store was hardback books and old books, but in the back were lots of science fiction/fantasy and mystery paperbacks. Found a number of mysteries I was looking for, didn’t find too many fantsy books I wanted/needed. However, the building was in not the nicest neighborhood, and whole place smelled strongly of cat pee, while the staff was either mute or afraid to talk to strangers. The cat was very friendly though.

Half Price Books
8118 Montgomery Rd
Tons of books, all categories. Place was well lit, clean, and neat, more like a traditional bookstore. Huge paperback science fiction/fantasy section and lots of mystery paperbacks. Books were well-organized and alphabetized, and anthologies were placed together at the end of a section, which I found very helpful. Found lots of books I wanted and was looking for, as well as plenty of books I wasn’t looking for.

As for new book stores, we visited Joseph-Beth, which was, as always nice, but didn’t see much that I haven’t found at home. Strangely, they have divided up their mystery section into different types of mysteries, like “cosy mysteries” so I had to search a bit before I could find some of the authors I was looking for. I picked up a new mystery, and a fantasy anthology. Unfortunately the fantasy anthology looks to be not at all what I want.

We briefly perused a Barnes & Noble, but their stock seemed to be the same as the new Morgantown store, so nothing was purchased.

As usual we’ve managed to spend more on books than anything else, so all is right with the world.