Book Buyback

Starting in 2026, we no longer purchase books for cash. As we complete our migration to a new point-of-sale system, we will offer a buyback program for store credit only. Timing of this program (tentatively scheduled for the end of winter) is dependent on our vendor partner.

Until we've fully migrated our inventory system, we will still allow one-for-one trades on any genre that hasn't yet been cataloged.

We always accept books for donation.

Program Exclusions

Some important caveats:

1. We cannot take in books that are prohibited from resale – e.g., advance review copies or books with stripped covers.
2. Each book must be reasonably saleable, which means that it needs to be in decent physical condition (no missing pages, torn covers, water damage, or broken spines) and be of potential interest to a general book-buying market.
3. We reserve the right to decline to accept or trade if a given genre is over-represented or if we already stock copies of a given book.
4. We are unlikely to accept titles that contain outdated information (e.g., old medical or nutrition books) or lean toward conspiracy theories and the occult.
5. We ask that you drop off your books so we can have them inventoried and inspected and calculate what we owe you. That process generally occurs on Wednesdays and Saturdays.