Rodney

I and the wife are toying with the idea of opening a used bookstore. Actually, we're beyond toying and into real estate foreplay.

But we need a name. Something that will catch the attention of people driving by, yet not weird enough to scare anybody off. I like "Book Monkey," but the wife won't buy it.

So -- any suggestions for a used bookstore name, serious or otherwise?

I will say that we live in a college town full of well-educated liberals, old hippies, rich hippies, trustafarians, surfers, starving students, and Latinos, if that gives you any inspiration.

Name's actually pretty important. I have a friend who opened a used bookstore in another town on a heavily traveled street. Wanted to call it "Big Brain Books," and put a plastic veined brain on the roof. But his wife talked him out of it (I know the feeling) and he went with a classy name, "Briarton Books" (from the neighborhood). Well, it's two years later and people are still stumbling in saying, "Gee, I drive by every day and I never knew you were here...." Doesn't get noticed.