Dimple Books

This is my new favorite bookstore. For $ 15, I can let my kid feel totally spoiled. Or, you know, pick up 5 or so books to put in the reward box. I feel like I’m winning at parenting when my child actually wants to work hard to earn more books to read.
All of the local Dimple stores have book sections, and we had been to all of them without finding much selection. Then we came here and found all of the hard-​cover Spiderwick Chronicles books for $ 2.99 each (which is even cheaper than I could find them on Amazon).
When we go to the new book store, we can have a Groupon and it’s still like, you can get one book. Here, it’s either, you pick three and I’ll pick two, or you spend $ 15… and then we go home with a Frida Khalo biography and a mood ring… #chipofftheblock
As compared to other used book stores, this Dimple smells better and feels much less crowded. The people who work here are always super cool, and they seem to always have plenty of staff on-​hand. And, in addition to the books, they have a little section of nerd gear, like Gumby figurines, prism makers, hilarious magnets, Fred products, gifts, etc.

What I purchase here:
— Books
— Records
Pros:
— The best prices on used books in the area. Not even Almost Perfect Bookstore can beat the pricing.
— Well organized.
— Vinyl located in the back. All well organized.
— Wide selection.
— Sale wall with excellent deals
— Books are high quality. You aren’t going to find torn/​destroyed books here. Most are new or lightly used.
— Manga section. Woot!
Cons:
— The area isn’t the best.
— The parking lot is scuzzy and not a lot of parking. Fortunately I haven’t run into an issue where I was unable to find a parking space, but it could potentially happen.

There is no «dimple books» there is dimple records. NO BOOKS. Drove all the way here to find no book store but only a record store. If you’re looking for records, this is the place to go.

Really cool bookstore. I’ve been to a few signings there with Charlaine Harris and Patricia Briggs and Robert Jordan back in the day. They bring in some good authors. Very friendly and helpful staff and great book selection.

THIS PLACE IS HEAVEN ON EARTH. Haha. I am from the Bay Area where it’s nearly impossible to find a Dimple. I discovered this place one day driving down Arden and immediately went in. It is awesome. It has an amazing selection of books and at amazing prices. I came in a few days later with some books to sell for store credit and they gave me nearly $ 60 for the books that I had and I in turn purchased about 15 books that day and still had money left on my store credit card. I am super happy that this place exists.

Staff isn’t very friendly. Every time I’ve been there I feel as if staff is following me for loss prevention purposes. They also low ball you extremely bad when they buy back books. You are better off selling dvd and cds next door at Dimple Records if you need a little cash or store credit.

Absolutely AMAZING. Great prices and found amazing stuff! Could spend hours upon hours pouring through the vinyl and rows of books

The section this store had was amazing. The workers weren’t so much. If you want to just go buy books or vinyls, I reccommend here. If you want to exchange books, I don’t reccommend this place.

This place is amazing! I’m so mad at myself for only discovering it today. As you would expect, this store sells and buys used books. They have a huge selection of fiction, sci-​fi, graphic novels/​manga, autobiographies/​non fiction. The books are in excellent condition and the store is well organized.
From what I saw, most paperbacks are priced at $ 2.99. The majority of the left wall of the store is dedicated to $ 0.99 books, or you can buy 4 of those books for $ 3.00! Most of the books are priced fairly, with the exception of the cookbook section in my opinion. I saw a copy of The Smitten Kitchen priced at $ 32, which is barely below the retail price of $ 35. Might as well buy it new on Amazon for less.
The back section of the store is dedicated to vinyl records. I didn’t get the chance to check it out this time, but it looked popular by the number of people back there. The sales staff are also extremely friendly. I am looking forward to coming back — I could easily spend hours here. Dimple Books is a gem!

Great selection of used graphic novels, vinyl and books for great prices. I’ve been shopping at dimple since the mid 90’s and was excited to see them adding a book store. It is very well organized and clean. The employees here are very helpful and nice. I’ve sold them books a few times for store credit. A great way to get some new stuff on the cheap and feed the book addiction.
The vinyl selection here is great, it’s obvious the people who run it care. They are happy to help you find stuff or recommend something. Well organized.

This is a really fun place to visit on the weekend, and they are pretty fair about buying books back. You can only get store credit, but by the time they’re done determining what they’ll buy and for how much, you’ll already have an arm full of books to buy. I like how they have it organized and it seems like they have new stuff every time I go. Great place to browse for affordable gifts.

Discovered the huge vinyl record selection at the Dimples Bookstore, and not the Dimples Record Store. Stroll to the back of the bookstore and they have devoted a lot of space to dig thru their bins. Found a wide variety of rock, jazz, R&B; really big soundtrack and international music; small reggae selection… but all at very cheap prices… starting at $ 2 per album and most used vinyl priced at $ 5-​$ 7 and in good shape. Would return next time I am in Sacramento.

If you want a great selection of records and completely inconsistent pricing, come to Dimple. I’ve been to every Dimple location and had reviewed the other Arden store a few months ago, but I wanted to update and add something about this location– way better selection of records but one huge disappointing thing is that the locations do not match each other’s prices. This weekend I went in and picked up a Misfits record at the «Records» location on Arden for $ 19.98 and then came over to the «Books» location about 5 minutes later the same day and found it for $ 15.98. No sale tag, nothing to indicate it was any different than the other one, just that mine was more expensive. This has happened now several times between the several Dimple stores I’ve visited in town but I finally decided to take a picture of it. When my boyfriend asked the guy at the counter about it he was incredibly rude to us and said super confrontationally, «yeah so, do you have a problem with that? There’s no way to know what they are charging at other stores, they’re a different store.» We were both taken aback by his response considering the locations are mere yards away from each other and they have a computer system which MUST have consistent pricing for products set up in it. All he had to say was «sorry we can price match it with a receipt», but no. We come in here at least twice a week and have spent hundreds of dollars on vinyl at the Dimple Records around town so we were really bummed and probably won’t be back anymore. All I can say is before you buy anything, check the other locations because you are probably going to find what you are looking for cheaper at another store.

My favorite place to get vinyl, I have never seen such a great selection in Sac. Very well organized. I really enjoy coming here whenever I can.

Awesome prices, good selection, and friendly people. New books arrive frequently! The vinyl section in the back is a nice bonus. :-)

I love this store! It’s so close to my house, and the hours are great! I brought in a bunch of books yesterday to sell for store credit, and they ended up being worth $ 36, which can get you far in that place. I bought four books with my credit, and I still have about $ 24 left over. Very pleased! Also, you get points every time you go there and buy books if you sign up for their rewards program, so one of my books ended up being half off!
Thank you Dimple for feeding my book addiction, and keeping your prices low and affordable! :)

The tidiest, best-​organized bookstore I’ve ever been in that carries a mix of used and new books. Friendly staff. Used books priced well, and in a condition that makes them largely indistinguishable from the new books which are all shelved together.
Great local bookstore.

Good used books stores are hard to come by. It seems people (including myself) buy a lot of books online now. So it is great to see a local small used book store with a great selection. They buy/​sell books. It is well organized and have the feel of just a regular bookstore. Some used bookstores are like an old cave with piles of books about to topple over. Not here. Brightly lit with organized rows of books.

Don’t go here! You will end up buying tons of books and need a wheelbarrow to haul them out! :)
The prices here are terrific and the staff incredibly helpful! Plus you can use your Dimple card to get points for money off down the line.
I found many current bestsellers at $ 2.99 (for hardcover!) and plundered the shelves. They also have a great selection of children’s books at prices that won’t break the bank and the vinyl is decent also.
Parking lot is fine during the daytime, shady at night… but what isn’t on Arden Way?
If you need a book fix this is the place to go!

I love book stores, but I really love used book stores.
I was really surprised by the vast selection here! If you didn’t have anywhere to go, you could probably spend a couple hours in here. One of my first thoughts was that I wish that places like this existed when I was in college. I would have saved hundreds of dollars on books!
They have a fairly large fiction section (which is always where I begin) with many titles that you get grab at half the cost of a new book. Although I was not able to find a sci fi series I have been meaning to read (Divergent), I was also impressed with the sci fi/​fantasy books available. You can also get some pretty good
There is a «Wall of Books» at a highly discounted price that runs along the left side of the store. These look like mostly pocket paperbacks. At the back of the store, you can find vinyl (there is also a separate Dimple Records store in an adjoining parking lot). There are also a cute selection of knick knacks and nerdy items at the front of the store (Dr. Who, etc.).
I could probably spend an entire day in one if left to my own devices.