Poor Richards Book Shoppe

This store is closed. I flaged a review to let Unilocal know, the response was, we don’t see anything wrong with the review. I guess they can’t read comments at Unilocal.I would have loved to not have driven into the city for nothing, so this bad review is actually dedicated to you Unilocal,for refusing to remove closed businesses. Please see the review in 2015 that I did not notice saying it was closed. Please also read my flagged review comments saying the business is closed. Come on guys!

This store is no longer open.

I just stumbled upon greatness! This place is great. I have never been to Brevard Ct but I was instantly a fan.
The chalk board sign out front said Beers, Books & Art. YES YES & YES! I climbed the small staircase to find a spot that looks like your neighbors living room. People just hanging out on couches & chairs sipping craft beers and listening to great local poets.
I met the owners & they are great. I cant wait to bring my friends out to enjoy this spot. Its one block off from Tryon so getting there sans car is easy & free if you take the Trolly.

This little place has the potential to become awesomely cool. It’s small, cozy, and hidden away inside the upstairs of the Latta Arcade/​Brevard Court. It really feels like something you’d find tucked away in a much larger, older city. I’d love to bring a coffee up the stairs and browse all afternoon.
Except… well, there’s not much to browse, and that’s why for right now, I am holding my rating to three stars. I understand that they’ll order whatever you need, even textbooks, and that’s pretty cool. But what they actually have in the store is not that impressive: mostly paperbacks of old popular fiction. These are the sort of disposable books that, when I worked at the public library, we’d just discard when they fell apart, since no one was interested in them after a few months. If people won’t read them for free, they’re definitely not going to spend money on them. I suspect this is especially true for the sort of people who visit hidden-​away book stores.
I love this spot. The people who run it seem very nice. I want them to succeed, almost desperately so. But a bookstore, *especially* one where most customers will have to pay for parking, isn’t going to succeed unless they have interesting offerings. I’m not going to make a habit of paying $ 10 to park uptown and then find nothing to buy, and I suspect that many other people won’t as well.
So please, Poor Richard’s… get some better books. I want to give you 5 stars!