Second Hand Prose in Coronado is a volunteer-run used bookstore operated by the Friends of the Coronado Public Library, with all sale proceeds funding library programs and community events across Coronado Island. The Friends of the Library organization dates to the 1970s, and the physical storefront opened in 2005 behind the Coronado Public Library on D Avenue, across from Coronado High School in the 92118 ZIP. Donated inventory rotates through fiction, nonfiction, children's books, military history, mystery, classics, foreign-language titles, travel, science fiction, cookbooks, DVDs, Blu-ray discs, and audiobooks, with a second smaller shop operating inside the library lobby under an honor-payment system. The annual Book Fair — held in conjunction with the Coronado Flower Show — stages roughly 40,000 volumes and raises approximately $30,000 per year, drawing collectors and casual readers from across Orange Avenue and beyond. The donation-and-resale cycle connects Second Hand Prose to Coronado's broader secondhand culture, with Thrift Cottage running a parallel pre-owned retail operation that keeps goods circulating on the island. Coronado shopping on Orange Avenue includes both Bay Books for new titles and Second Hand Prose for used volumes, giving Coronado Island two distinct book-buying options within walking distance of Hotel Del Coronado and the Coronado Ferry Landing. No library card is required to browse or buy, and paperback fiction and nonfiction stock at an average of four dollars per title, sorted by genre into labeled sections that mirror a conventional bookstore layout across the D Avenue storefront and the library-lobby satellite.