Owner is informative, knowledgeable and super helpful…read more Great place and selection to browse through on a brief vacation in a great city! We'll be back again! Cheers and enjoy your time in the shop and city!!!

Great selection of childrens' books at competitive prices and with a knowledgeable and friendly…read morestaff.

If you're ever en route to Kingston/Ottawa/Montreal AND you are a huge bookworm like myself, stop…read moreby this family-owned used book store in Trenton :) You won't be disappointed with the novel selections they have! They also have another huge section of the store dedicated for hobbies and collectibles (sport cards, trading cards, comics, boardgames, figurines, etc.) Back to books - they sell old books at a great, low price! I found old series from authors I love, and books from a decade ago that I thought I'd never find. This is really the place to be! Books are categorized from various genres and are kept neatly and in alphabetical order by author's last names. The family who works there is super friendly, welcoming, and takes great care of the store. Thank you Bob! You were very helpful :)

I have been going there for years, everyone friendly and willing to help find what your looking…read morefor. They have a wide variety of books something for everyone from children to adults.

Lots of variety of comics, cards and toys. Some great finds. Some of the stuff they have should be…read morein a museum. Knowledge staff.

Staff is very nice their landlord borderline harasses anyone who parks in the parking lot. We…read moreparked there for not even 5 minutes trying to figure out something and he comes banging on our window telling us to move or he'll tow us. Tried explaining the situation and he did not care and told us to move or he'll call the cops.

Visited Sanctuary Comics today on a Saturday. It's out of the way so we thought we would be the…read moreonly ones there today. However, Secrets of Strixhaven came out yesterday as the new set for retail. The shop was full of people and product. I have never been in a store so chock-full of product on sale. It had the vibe of an old hold in the wall library. In the back of the store was where the shop owner stood to take orders of cards and packs. He had literally every set of Magic Card packs I had ever heard of, which is definitely different than other stores. The prices were decent for them as well. The best part was they have a shop cat named Panther that greeted me as soon as I walked in. Soooo cute!

Ok first off, the proprietor wasn't rude per se, but he seemed like he would have rather been…read moreanywhere than running a comic shop. If you don't like dealing with the public, perhaps a life in retail is not for you. The place itself is cramped. I liken it to the trash compactor scene in Star Wars. There are random piles of boxes, loose books, and totes in the already narrow aisles making it a difficult task to shop for comics. The comics themselves are all placed in alphabetized short boxes that are stacked upwards of 6 feet high on individual shelves. The boxes each have their lids on them so you have to pull each box down to look inside. Each box is packed so tight though, that you almost can't look through them without taking some out first. I didn't even bother with the bottom shelf if there was a randomly stacked pile of odds n ends in the way. The prices? Non-existent. The owner apparently looks up each book on Ebay for sold comps and goes with the highest price he can find. My son left most of the books he brought up to the register behind. And these weren't the latest hot speculator books. They were random All-Star Squadron books that sold for $7 the last four times they were purchased, though he went with the $15 sale even further back. The thing I take most offense to is that he doesn't look at the condition of the book he is looking up. He just looks up the price. Needless to say, when I got home and found that one of the corners of the $4 I bought was completely wrinkled, I realized the book was probably worth a buck at best. I can't imagine what he would charge for a damaged book that is expensive to start with. Would he even take that into consideration? We drove two hours to check this shop out and ended up spending more on gas than I did at the store. Total waste of our time. Bottom Line : I would not recommend this store to anyone looking for comics or fair pricing.

If you ever get a good deal on a comic, the owner will never forgive you for it and will be rude to…read moreyou every time you visit the store afterwards. The store is poorly organized and the comics are not even priced! Few of them are even bagged or boarded! Basically, it's a pain to figure out what he has in stock, and then you have to wait for him to look every comic up on eBay so he can charge you as much as possible for them. The owner has been sitting on all this stuff for decades and has so few customers that he should be happy when anyone comes in wanting to buy back issues. Instead he basically relies on customers to let him know if any of his comics have any value, and then he takes to his smartphone to figure out how much he can charge you. I visited the store a few times and made $100+ purchases on a couple armloads of comics. The third time I entered, he informed me that I had "cheated" him out of money because ONE of the comics I bought from him previously was worth more than he (and *I*) thought it was at the time. He informed me that it was a "$40 comic", even though it really only sells for $15, and I paid him $5 for it. (Note: He looks at the maximum amounts of what people on eBay are ASKING for certain issues. He doesn't look at the much lower prices that the actual issues end up selling for!) So, I'm supposed to be SO SORRY that I got a bit of a deal on ONE COMIC, even though I gave him over $200 on other comics? The heck with that! I've been in the store twice since, and both times the owner was totally rude to me, like it's still eating him up inside that I gave him $220 when it really "should" have been $235 or whatever. People warned me about the shop before I went there, and actually even another comic shop owner from 100 miles away actually told me that this place is notorious. "You ever been to Pegasus Hobbies up there in Watertown? Yeah, that guy can't stand it when you get a deal from him!" In the four times total that I've been in his shop, NO other customers ever entered. He has few customers, and I can see why. I will never shop there again.

Although it is true that, as a previous review mentions, its catalogue isn't as deep as it could be…read more- in this day and age of a choice between Chapters/Indigo and Amazon for most book buying, I still give this vendor a 5 star rating. Book prices really don't vary when you're buying new, and given its size, location, and stellar service, I won't ding them for that. The store is in the heart of the downtown area and occupies a large, corner unit. They carry a large selection of calendars and daytimers in addition to the usual best seller books. Their sections include a New Age one as well as the more expected Children's, Canadiana etc. if that helps impress the range of merchandise. We found several books that were not on that list and really appealed to our imagination. The sections are labeled well enough and in good order, decently stocked and re-stocked throughout the day judging by the fact that was what one of the staff was doing while we shopped. I was looking for a specific Atwood title which wasn't on the shelf, but had been before selling out and could be ordered. Being a tourista on this occasion, I had to decline the offer. Speaking of the offer, the staff were all around excellent. One staff overheard me talking about daytimers to my family and politely interjected to assist. No one seems to be carrying 18-month, 2021-22 daytimers that begin in January rather than July, so he couldn't help on that score, but then no other retailer I've been to lately could either so that's also not something I'm going to consider on them. Checking out for the books I did find was very pleasant. The cashing staff was the one who had also offered to find the Atwood title in their catalogue and made a bit of conversation that was relevant and not long, intrusive or pushy - something of an art it seems when dealing with staff who converse with their clients. They'll provide a plain plastic bag or you can buy a cloth one if you want the tourista bag-with-logo part of the shopping experience. I would happily come back on a return trip to Kingston.

I owe novel idea a lot. It was here, 20 years ago, that I was I introduced to the fantasto-parodic…read moreliterature of Sir Terry Pratchett. I needed something to read, you see, on the trips back and forth to my driver's ed class, so I picked up a rather unassuming book called Pyramids. This is not unlike the friend who introduces you to your future spouse. That any independent bookstore has survived 20 years is somewhat miraculous. But Novel Idea has stayed in the same limestone corner location for all that time. It's comforting to come back to Kingston and know that I can visit it and pick up a few things. Now, as a local indy bookstore its catalogue isn't as deep as it could be, but it's pertty darn broad.