Meta Books is a relatively new tenant to the core retail storefronts of the University of Washington, Tacoma campus. It stocks used books in a variety of categories—including literature, poetry, cooking, travel, history, and Tacoma/Pacific Northwest.
The space was somewhat small and intimate. The shelves were somewhat sparsely filled. After another three months of business, I assume that there will be more stock on the shelves.
It was fun to poke around and see what they had on the shelves, although my inner bookseller wanted to keep facing books out to fill some of the empty space.
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It seems that Meta Books will be a nice complement to the new book offerings of the nearby UWT branch of the University Book Store. It also occupies a geographical middle ground between Tacoma Book Center and King's Books, which may allow it to thrive, although it won't keep me from patronizing either King's or TBC. In fact, I will still default to King's Books when looking for books in Tacoma.
But I will give Meta Books some time to grow and mature, hopefully gracefully so.
2 comments:
LOL!!! That is funny!!! Your comment about wanting to face books out, John does that at home with our free space!
It's the "bookseller in our blood," so to speak.
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