- It has a fair-sized stock of fantasy and sci-fi books available (as well as other genres for those of you who are into those sorts of things)
- It's got a fairly decent trade-in system... you get some percentage of the cover price of your books' value as credit, which you then access for a pittance per book. End result: books for about $0.40 each, so long as you have credit at the store
- It's at the other end of the block from the Donut Parade, so you can have handy access to good donuts without explicitly making a trip to get donuts.
I've been going to Cal's off and on for years... and honestly, that's why I'm writing this. You see, it had been about 5 years since I last dropped in, between work and other hobbies interfering, and I have hundreds of dollars in credit there. Many places would have found a way, in that time, to quietly 'lose' my record or otherwise erase that credit... but everything was as it should be, all these years later. For that alone, I recommend taking a look into Cal's... worst case, it'll give you an excuse to go get donuts.
