A gem of a bookshop! Great selection of new and used books plus some fun gift items and an extensive selection of kids toys and puzzles. One block off the main street downtown Half Moon Bay. A fun discovery!

A must visit if you love books and local. They have both new and used. It’s off the main drag so don’t miss it! A great place for kids to explore and pick out some used favorites. They can also order any book you are looking for.

Neat book shop. We loved the $1 surprise books.

As always the people were helpful and friendly. All three of my great grandchildren found something they liked

Great local bookstore! Selection and service are the top. Bonus: mysterious selections labeled by genre and wrapped to surprise you until you open them.

A great book shop with a wide selection to choose from. They have a substantial amount of young adults, pre-teens, and children books. Good selection in novels and history section. A great place to sit down and read your selection prior to purchasing it.

Rude employee, not child friendly, likely the owner or manager told me to tell my kids don’t touch what unless I’m going to buy! If that’s the case put a sign out and tell everyone that!! Singling people out is not ok!

With a helpful staff, great selection of used and new books, board games, and more, Ink Spell is a must-visit for us whenever were in Half Moon Bay.

Great book store. Really helpful staff.

Always the best books & gifts!

Absolutely amazing service! My wife raved about this place, and I finally got to go. While COVID is ruining a full experience, I have no doubt Ill come back. Thank you for being so awesome!!

Cute little stop! Kids enjoyed browsing the books

I found so many used books that I loved that I didnt want to put any of them down. I bought 6 books and got 5 free. A great promotion to encourage young readers. Im starting a small library for my youngest granddaughter. Buy 2 picture books get 2 free. I hope its still going on. Check this store out. Its just a block from the main part of town.

WOW what a find in Half Moon Bay. Hidden away off Main Street is one of the best bargain book shops in the area. Lots of used books from babies to young adults. Clothes and other great stuff. It is a place you have to visit if you are in downtown Half Moon Bay

This place has good vibes and a wide selection.

What a great place - its a bookstore with personality!Open, airy & a mix of new & used books means it is affordable for lots off budgets.We loved the program to support the local school library & think more retailers should do this type of program.A nice change to the touristy Main St. Stores.

Nice spot just to hang out! they really do a nice job to attract children. nice educational toy collections. small fun toys as well. truly unique nice little jewel in half moon bay. great for kids and adults!

Visited Half Moon Bay in May 2019, love the Pacific Coastline CA-1 Highway, a beautiful drive along the coast. Made an effort, stopped by Ink Spell for the first time and loved it. The day I was there, saw a canvas print outside the windowsill display and knew I have to have it and that does not happen often I see something I like-love so much, its one of those items that its love at first sight. I think it was priced at $11.99 or $12.99. School kids were inside the store that day, kindergarten/1st and 2nd graders, the kids were so cute-adorable, sat down with their teachers read some books. It was a perfect visit for me, this store win my heart by a furlong, love the wooden staircase to reach the 2nd floor filled with books. The main floor is cool, fun-interesting bookmarks, all sorts of books and selections, the store lighting is nice and a very inviting atmosphere. The second I walked in, I knew I felt welcomed. Theyve fun message ceramic mugs, a small selection of jewelry display racks, puzzles, games for all ages and for general public audiences. I purchased Lean On Me canvas print, left the store with great delight as I stepped foot out the doorway of this cutesy-very interesting bookstore. Id highly recommend this store if you ever stop in Half Moon Bay, worth your while.

This is the best local book seller and toy store. They have a huge selection of books, art supplies, creative games and thoughtful gifts. If they dont have a book in stock they will order it for you. They have great ideas for birthday gifts and new things to read and they gift wrap!

Very reasonably priced used books, and they offer a 20% off teacher discount for books you buy for your classroom! Great place!

Ink Spell is carrying on the proud independent bookstore tradition of HMB and the coast. They have an exceptional Childrens selection; great cookbooks; a decent History section; and they stock the required reading for Cunha Middle School, which I attended back in the day.Cherish and patronize your local bookstores, or else they will disappear like Moon News and Bay Books. Why not buy Christmas presents right here instead of from the A-word, and support your community?

Always best service a d such a cute book store.

My go-to place for all my books and gifts! Employees are always very helpful and courteous. Many times a year the store has great sales or customer appreciation specials. They love kids and have a train table and play kitchen for use while you shop.

My kids loves books. This was a treat to find physical books store that you can come in read, explore and experience childhood memories. Staff are really friendly. This was a discovery as we walk around the town. You can really spend hours here

A wonderful friendly neighborhood bookstore. One block from Main Street. Great prices. They even have a surprise book area. Book for a dollar, but book is wrapped in newspaper. Only general idea about what book is about. Its a great surprise.

Great place to shop for books. I especially enjoy their wrapped $1 mystery books.

Ink spell Is one of my favorite book stores in the whole world! The staff was incredibly friendly and Cindi in particular has a great knowledge of the book industry and what selections are available. A dont miss in half Moon Bay

Ink Spell has a reasonably good collection of books. The staff are helpful. The store itself is in an old department store, a pretty building from the early part of the last century. Well lit and spacious.

We found some great books at good prices. The displays were all so enticing, I really wanted to read everything I saw. Great store!

Super helpful staff.They have a beautiful selection of used books and can find and ores anything you want.

Love this place. They take books for store credit and have a good selection. The staff is always helpful.

Good collections of used books, well placed. Nice location and plesent space. Found myself a Terry Pratchett.

Best place to find a unique book, treasure or gift. Amazing service and there is a kids story time on Wednesdays at 10 am (double check the time in case it was changed since I made this post)

Great customer service

This is a wonderful space-- light and airy and, best of all, full odd gifs books. Is the kind of place I would want to have a book signing if I wrote books.

Very nice atmosphere, helpful staff, and good selection of books. New and used, novelty books, young adult and childrens books too. Some toys for kids to play with, and comfortable chairs. It was very pleasant.

Quiet and well organized. Found a book I was looking for at a good price.

Local treasure. This place has a wonderful selection of books and activities for all ages. Friendly and knowledgeable staff brings it all together

Love this place. We love coming to the book exchanges. Knowledgeable staff, huge selection. A gem.

Nice people, good mix of new and used books.

One of the better used bookstores Ive visited, and Im a bookseller myself.

I LOVE Ink Spell Books! The people are very helpful! The sell NEW AND USED books and if they dont carry what you are looking for they will order it and have it for you in a few of days! Ink Spell is my GO TO place for the whole family!

Good. Gifts, good prices friendly service

Great book store. Both new and used books. Try the grab bag books for $1.00

Perfect for childrens gifts! Always fun little things going on, too.

Large selection of paperbacks, fiction, & history books at reasonable places. Also good selection of childrens books.

Great bookstore! Cozy so much to close from. Well worth a visit!

Great local bookstore which puts on a lot of great community events

Great selection of many genres of books plus games and toys. Mystery books prewrapped, and you choose the genre, for a buck.

Lovely little place to bring your kids, great selection of books and toys, plus a play area for kids

Great place excellent staff tons of affordable books and excellent seasonal knick knacks.

The staff are helpful and the collection of books to buy is great in size and quality.

A must. Loads of kids used books for great prices.

Interesting little book store, very nice employees too. Only wish that it didnt close so early.

Nice place. Cashier was not very helpful..

Fantastic bookstore with an amazing selection of new and used kids books at great prices.

Staff friendly, good selection, too pricy

Where else ya gonna find a magic 🎱? ...Most likely 😆

We first came here after a trip to Pigeon Point Lighthouse. My husband was looking for John McPhee books and I was just poking around. The problem with McPhee is that he can be listed in almost any nonfiction section because he writes on so many different subjects! We havent had much luck at other used bookstores in the Bay Area because the employees usually halfheartedly suggest a couple sections to look in and then leave us to our own devices. Not here! The young woman at the counter looked McPhee up in their computer, found the half-dozen sections in which they carried his books, and ran ALL OVER the store to help my husband find them and choose the books he hadnt already read. Thanks, Ink Spell! You made his day! Weve returned since then and theyve always been helpful; last time they made sure we knew about a special sale, and I had a nice chat about Tanya Huff with a different clerk. I love this store.(P. S. If youre mapping this, Ink Spell is on Purissima Street, NOT Purissima Way! Youll get lost if you go to P. Way!)

Very friendly, great place for gifts and such.

Nice place alot of variety

Wonderful selection of new and used books!

Great people work here

Has become my favorite bookstore.

Great selections of books.

Great independent store

Fun little bookstore

A large selection of books and gift items in Half Moon Bay

Very attentive staff!