Nice Price Books

Update: This bookshop has now closed permanently, alas!

Nice Price is a solid place to pick up used records. They have a great selection of classic rock albums, I have never purchased anything else from here thus the 3 stars and parking can be a real pain in the ass.

This is a perfect place. VERY large selection of books, DVDs, CDs, tapes etc, interesting and super-​friendly employees/​owners, convenient location, easy parking. I also sold here a number of used books/​DVDs and I have always been positively surprised by the very honest appraisals they made. This is unlike the Nice Price Books in Durham, where I always found employees rather cold and appraisals insultingly stingy. Indeed even though I live in Durham I always go to Carrboro to buy/​sell used books. They also stay open late, and it’s a great place where to spend a couple of hours once in a while. Highly recommended!
P. S. I went back to the NPB in Durham in April 2012, and this time the employee who assessed the value of our books/​CDs gave us a fair price. I still prefer the Carrboro location, though, but it was fair to write this post scriptum.

A nice shop with a wide variety of books and vinyls. It can be a bit pricey when compared to used books at the PTA Thrift Store down the street but they have a much greater selection that is well organized.

Pretty cool little shop. I went in looking for a book (which they had!!) and I left with 2 vinyls in addition. I was pleasantly surprised to see that they had some Latin records that I listened to growing up. Good to stop by every now and then and just browse, you never know what treasures you may discover!

My husband told me I would like this place, and boy, was he right. I was already having a nice night after having dined at Crook’s Corner, but then it got super NICE.
I immediately went for the collection of art books. Knowing my Dad is a Van Gogh fan and his birthday was coming up, I picked out a neat 1954 copyright book with a bunch of Van Gogh paintings. He was impressed. Score!
Then I browsed the cookbooks, VHS tapes, vinyl, CDs – I started to get a little overwhelmed. I found specific books a little hard to find, but everything was grouped and categorized in a way that made sense.
I also always have to check out these places for classic Nancy Drew books – no luck. But I will definitely be back. I think I could probably spend hours there. I didn’t find the employee to be all that friendly, but it didn’t matter. I got a great pile of goodies on the cheap.

Nice Price is an area classic. I remember trading my collection of Babysitter’s Club books for an upgrade to their Goosebumps selection. The staff is super nice and helpful. You can find a bit of everything, including best sellers and obscure handbooks. Everyone has already mentioned their cd/​vinyl collection. I like to thumb through them and pretend like I have good taste in old school music.
Pick a plastic stool and spend a few hours browsing…

Nice Price has the BEST selection of used and new books. Oh, and they have SWEET vinyl LP’s too. I can always count on finding a great book there for a great price.
A very unique selection. A great staff.
It can be hard to find stuff sometimes, but I get joy in the search.

Not as meticulously organized as CD Alley, but definitely head and shoulders above most stores. I heard from the clerk at CD Alley that this place gets picked over because its namesake applies to vinyl as well. This was pretty evident when I first walked in. The store is full of books, records, and movies. They scale the walls and support beams, are pinned to boards, and just sprawl wherever they can go in an orderly fashion. The vinyl selection seemed exclusively used. There were about 4 bins of vinyl devoted to a genre: country (the good kind), rock, jazz, and blues (I may be mistaken, I zipped around the store). There was a plethora of marked record bins beneath the racks too.
As far as used record stores go, I feel their pricing was on the above-​average side. I’m used to $ 3 – 5 @ CD Cellar. There was one bin that had their relatively «new» arrivals– but it was being cherry picked by one cute hipster girl the whole time I was there. God bless Carrboro.

I love this bookstore for the feel of it– the idea that it’s chock full of so much knowledge and it’s just waiting there for you to pick it out and take it home.
The hours are great– late night, many times I’ve looked over and been surprised that Nice Price is open. I wouldn’t agree that it’s «cheap as hell,» though– they usually sell books for half the original cover price which is fine for more recent books. Some books are old, though, and $ 15 for, say, a travel book from 1990 can be beaten by
tenfold.

This is what bookstores are like in reality.
Nice Price is, as other Unilocalers have mentioned, not strictly organized, but that’s part of what makes it great. If you go in here looking for something particular, you need to tell the staff what it is. They will help you, and will probably help you decide if what you came in for is really what you need, or if there’s something that you might actually have wanted more.
If you don’t come in looking for something in particular, you will spend hours browsing and reading, and discovering new rooms when you thought you had seen everything.
Creaky floors are essential in a good book store, and Nice Price has that too.
Finally: it’s CHEAP AS HELL.

Books!
It’d take a lot for me to give a used bookstore any kind of a poor review. Perhaps if they pulled a weapon on me, or if there was anthrax poisoning. Neither of these are the case. This is just an awesome bookstore with a great selection. There’s also a surprisingly good amount of CDs.
If there’s a downside it’s that it’s in a semisketchy area that’s a little bit hard to see from the main street in Carrboro, but if you go in the daytime (or by car) this isn’t so much of a problem. And it’s not really their fault. It cannot take away from the glory of the books.

Ok, this is another used book store. Oh, but it is so much more.
They’ve got a legion of books… Not quite the selection of the Bookshop, but very decent. Like similar shops, the organization of all the merchandise is complete crap, so be ready to devote some time to looking if you’re out for something specific.
The staff isn’t very responsive, but that’s largely in keeping with the atmosphere, and I’m not sure what they would say in the first place.
They also have a fair amount of CDs, DVDs, VHS tapes, and vinyl records, so there’s a lot to wade through. I’d recommend making a monthly trip here with about $ 30 and spending it all on whatever you please. But then, that’s just me.

Cruise on in to pick up some books, music CD’s or DVD’s. They also buy books & CD’s/DVD’s, if you want to put some cash in your pockets. They host a wide variety of books, so that you can become more learned. The staff is extremely friendly and helpful for any specific items you may be seeking.

This just might be the thing I miss most about Chapel Hill/​Carrboro. And that’s saying a lot!
They have used books stacked from floor to ceiling, all nicely categorized for you. My problem with a lot of used book places is that it’s fun to browse but I never end up finding too much that I actually want to go home with. I always always walked out of here with an armful of books. I think it is probably a product of the brainy, worldly environment that recycles their books here, but they really do have a great selection. I got a ton of travel, fiction, cooking, and philosophy books here.
Nice record and CD section too. The prices are definitely fair. They even have a frequent buyer’s card! (Last time I checked, at least.)

Whenever I go record shopping its Nice Price and CD Alley. This place is especially good for older records, though that doesn’t mean more obscure. I love the fact that it feels like you’re in someones house plus everything is pretty inexpensive.