Shop hopes used books make for 'beloved resource'

LAWRENCE PIERCE | Gazette

(Left to right) Joe Solomon, Taylor Books manager Dan Carlisle and owner Ann Saville discuss the shops latest addition: a used book room. The store is hosting a Book Blizzard Thursday to gather donations for the room, which will open next month.

It started with a back room that had only a cat and a mountain of cardboard inside.

With a little vision and some elbow grease, Taylor Books has changed that ignored spaced into a used book room.

Joe Solomon, curator of the shops latest project, first approached bookstore manager Dan Carlisle with the idea during a job interview.

Part of his resume said something about running his own used bookshop, which I found very interesting, said Carlisle, who showed him the room during that meeting.

Solomon, while living in Brooklyn, ran a used bookstore on the Internet.

I vowed never ever, ever to do that ever again. Because while the books were real, I never met all the people the books were going out to and finding homes with, Solomon said.

The idea had been germinating at the shop for years, Carlisle said.

We have talked about it and talked about it. Gone through different phases of, Yes, we can do this, No, its not possible, Carlisle said.

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Shop hopes used books make for 'beloved resource'