A Good Used Book

Los Angeles, CA

We sell books. But there’s a little more to it than that.

As a team of three, Jenny and I find books weekly. We choose carefully, based on the book and its condition. Each one goes through quite a process - cleaning, conditioning, pricing, research, photography - and we make them available here, on Instagram, Facebook and even Pinterest (we're on Twitter too, just for fun).

It's impossible to count the number of stories that have come our way. Stories told by authors long gone, stories about those authors from customers who read them, stories about reading itself. In the beginning, we sold our books online as part of a marketplace but built a physical pop-up for more autonomy. Now, because of coronavirus, we find ourselves back there again: this time with our own website, our own social media, and our own audience.

Sarah, our third, joined us last year. She used to organize shelves inside an old U-Haul truck converted into a storage unit with us in Los Angeles. Now, she’s writing thoughtful, humorous copy for hundreds of books each month and helping take on multiple social platforms. All remotely from Palouse, Washington.