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4.5 Star Rating: Recommended

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08/23/08

Used paperbacks by Cheryl P. at InsiderPages

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Mac's has an outstanding selection of used paperbacks. All kinds - fiction - history - biographies - true crime - humor. New stuff in all the time, so I go back often. Phone number is easy to remember - last 4 digits spell book.

08/18/03

A must for both bibliophiles and starving students who don't want to pay a lot for their Henry James.

by Contributor at Citysearch

Reading List
Mac's Backs features three floors of about 50,000 used and new books, with the top level devoted entirely to science-fiction, fantasy and horror. In addition, the management keeps the place stocked with the latest small-press sensations, reprints, zines and chapbooks.

More Than Books
Mac's also hosts author visits, readings and poetry slams. The savvy staff can order just about anything in print, but that's not why people patronize Mac's Backs. They come to find out what's just washed up on the shelves, a fascinating and fluctuating inventory that's the result of the store's popular trade-in policy on used (and rare) literature.

The History
"Mac" is founder and co-owner James McSherry. While a law student in the early 1980s, he opened the original Mac's Backs Paperback exchange, a tiny nook of a store in Chagrin Falls.

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