Goodwill Bookstore

My family looks forward to coming here at least once a week. They always have new books and each week different things are on sale. The staff is super helpful and friendly!

Okay for the casual book reader, this store is 70% fiction and fantasy, and another 25% cookbooks/​travel/​self-​help. That leaves maybe 5% for those who read for any reason other than idle entertainment. However, I have no doubt whatsoever this reflects precisely the type of material that is most in demand by the sort of people who live in Ft. Meyers, Florida. In fact, I’ll bet you $ 5 I’m right about that.
The place is large, with a reading room where there are coffee tables but no coffee. Prices center around $ 4.00 and half that if the price tag is red. For the academics, you’ll find one shelf of text material, all high-​school or early college level. Nothing for the educated adult. The entire section of cerebral material fits on two shelves among the hundreds in the store.
However, if escape literature is your thing, and I mean practically your only thing, this store can help you. It is sparkling clean and new, all books are in good condition, and there is plenty of parking. More than enough reasons for people who are not like me to get over there for a ‘boo.

Goodwill bought a defunct bank building and turned it into an used bookstore and a donation center. You can drive up to the drive-​thru in the back, pop your trunk, and the employees will unload your donations.
The inside is brand spanking new, opened in October 2010. It is mainly books with some DVD, CDs, and local fundraising. There is a reading room with nice, new, plush chairs and coffee tables. The books are in a few smaller rooms, separated by fiction and non-​fiction. There is a decent selection of fiction alphabetized by author. There is a special shelf for Florida authors and location books, many of them signed. The nonfiction is by category. The majority of the books are in great to excellent condition. Overall prices are $ 2.99 to 7.99 each, with a few higher and a few lower.