Half Price Books

Terrific selection and good prices. I usually shop for records and they didn’t mind me browsing for an hour.

It is a bigger than I thought. Great customer service and passionate staff. Hope they have more video games.

If you need a book, this is the place to go! I love the prices and the selection. I have also taken books there to recycle. They pay me a fair price. Highly recommend!

The other half price books have better selections. I brought in 15 new and slightly used books and was offered 15 bucks. Yikes, what a ripoff! Next time I am selling them to Amazon.

Another place I’ve been going for awhile but apparently haven’t reviewed. It’s right across from Graceland, so handy if you’re in that area. Large selection, friendly staff, the usual good prices. I just got some magazines this time ($.50!) but often come in for other things.
Parking is right out front, but some of it is on a pretty good slope so be careful.

What a great place to get lost among books. Every time I visit this store I always send more time than intended discovering new treasures among the shelves. I always leave with a book. Or two… Or three that I have convenced myself I cannot live without. This store has what I need at a great discounted price. Store is clean and orderly with large signs directing you to search for the book of your choice. An added bonus, they were serving free coffee the last time I was there!

My experience here was great. I sold some old items (and made good $$) as well as picking up some vinyl & a couple books I’d been looking for. The staff were all very helpful, too.

By far the best Half Price Bookstore in CBus! The staff is really cool and the manager does one heck of a job at keeping things in stock that I want! Like the Friday Night 20% off Vinyl records sale. I have been to every half price bookstore in my area and this one by far trumps every single one. It is smaller than the rest, but has a better selection of Books, DVD’s and music. This one is only open until 9:00 pm and when they are ready to close up shop, they close up shop! Great people, great products and very helpful service.

If your going here to actually get a book then your probabley going to be happy, but if you are bringing books in to sell I would try somewhere else, maybe even the other locations like Brice Rd as I hear they are the nicest in Columbus. I took three bags of books in and some were pretty much brand new, but all they offered me was $ 5.00 which was a rip off, but I was tired of having all the clutter so I just took it. I loved their selection of cook books though.

I was excited to learn that this used bookstore pays you for your old stuff. I was looking to finally upgrade to Sims 3 so I brought in all 10 of my SIms 2 games to trade them in. I was going to buy the two SIms 3 games the same day from them. I checked out what theirs Sims2 were selling for while I waited for our games to be checked over; $ 8 each. I was disapointed when they called my name only to find out they would give me $ 7…total. I was horrified! I know the game isnt around anymore but if they were selling them for $ 8 each there would be no reason to give me less then $ 3 a game. Of course I took my things and left. Not sure if Ill even go back there again after that. I refuse to pay for something that was jacked up in price, even if its cheaper here then everywhere else.
Not to mention I didnt see free coffee anywhere, and the chairs set up were in the middle of sections so you couldnt actually sit and read here.

I’ve started to feel guilty about shopping here so often, considering none of the authors/​musicians are actually getting paid for their products that I’m purchasing. Needless to say, that hasn’t stopped me from coming back.
Though not the biggest HPB in town, the Clintonville location is my favorite. For whatever reason, my success rate of finding things I happen to be looking for here has been particularly high, at least compared to other bookstores in town. A lot of bands I dig (My Bloody Valentine, Echo & the Bunnymen) I discovered through their used CD shelves, and their vinyl selection is quite decent as well (still regret not shelling out the forty bucks for that sealed copy of «Siamese Dream» last year… quelle dommage). I also appreciate that their DVDs aren’t partitioned by genre — many of the other stores have placed certain titles in suspect categories, thus making them difficult to locate. Furthermore, in the three years that I’ve shopped here, the staff has always been very helpful and friendly. Knowing me, I’ll probably be back and rummaging through the clearance racks within the week.

I’m a big fan of Half Price, including this location. I hadn’t been to this one until just last weekend, but it was nice. I think I still prefer the one on Lane, I mean, its huge! We still found some books that we just had to have. Very clean and organized location too!

I love Half Price books and can’t decide if this or the one in Upper Arlington is my favorite, so they both get 5 stars from me!
HUGE magazine selection and chairs everywhere, free coffee, you could spend all day here!
But at those prices (50 cent a magazine) I stock up and enjoy them at home in the bathtub with a cup of tea or a pint of ice cream.
My son loves the books and my husband always finds some CD’s to add to his collection, it’s such a great concept with awesome people working there, I wish I would have found out about Half price Books sooner!

Half Price Books is cool with me. I’ve been to a couple different locations… for the music heads, it’s a low-​key place for vinyl. My only complaint is that over the past few years their prices have crept up considerably. (insert standard economy cop-​out here)

I like Half-​Price Books. I can easily sate my obsession with owning every book by and about F. Scott Fitzgerland and not break my tiny budget. More importantly, though, when I moved away from Columbus (biggest sad face EVAR), I sold a bunch of my books here, and while the dollar amount I received wasn’t enormous, it was absolutely decent and I was thankful for that, in this, my time of economic hardship.
I brought in a good sized box of random books, mostly old text books I didn’t need, and got about forty bucks for them. Not bad, if you’re just looking to get rid of some books and would like some, basically at that point, free money. I donated TONS of stuff to Goodwill, so I didn’t feel too badly about selling my books instead of donating them. The process was quick and friendly, and for the box of books I brought, I was in and out of HPB in less than fifteen minutes — and I wasn’t the only person selling back books that day. How very pleasant!

This location has the smallest clearance section of any of the locations I have ever been in, however due to its Clintonville location they have a great selection of everything else.

This bookstore is too close to my digs, hence I buy too many books here. In my defense, the books I purchase are usually clearance or else extremely cheap. The clearance section is a misnomer. You would usually expect to find shelf upon shelf of unwanted miscellany. This is not generally the case in Half Price Books. I have found some real gems in the clearance section here. Looking is all it takes. I also like the «nostalgia» section, which is a small section of vintage paperbacks at $ 1 or $ 2 each. You can usually find something interesting in there. The records are also fun to sift through, and they are priced to sell quickly also, many starting at just 25c each.
If you need quick cash, selling your books or music here is not a horrible idea. I’ve always been pleased with the offers they’ve made me on my items. Just don’t expect a fortune.

This location was small and didn’t have what I was looking for, but the staff were nice enough to call another location for me and give me directions to it.

It’s hard to slight this or any other Half Price Books location for the variety and quantity of books they have on hand. It’s a huge number of tomes spread out over a multitude of well defined sections. It’s easy to spend a lot of time browsing here. You can even find recent edition technical computer books that are a good deal cheaper than you can get them at PC stores or full retail bookstores, if that sort of thing interests you. As other reviewers have noted, some of their titles are not marked at the claimed deep discount, though.
I’ve been shocked by the small amount of money offered me by Half Price Books for some of the rarer titles i’ve taken in there to sell. It seems that the shininess of your books is more important than their identity. It appears that Half Price is trying not to look like a used book store by stocking only new-​looking books. If they are trying not to look like a used book store for whatever reason, they should be more frank about that. Maybe put up a sign in the store that says: Don’t expect us to give you any real dough for your slightly creased book in which Allen Ginsberg appears naked with his boyfriend. Your dust jacket-​less second edition of The Varieties of Religious Experience means nothing here. If it doesn’t look like it could be on the shelves at Barnes and Noble, BURN IT FOR WARMTH INSTEAD.
I let my bitterness get away from me, there. In retrospect, i was crazy to think of selling such personally valuable volumes, and especially to Half Price Books. It’s a good place to buy books, not sell them.

Although I don’t like the location, this Half Price lives up to all of its brothers and sisters scattered around the country. I used to go to Half Price in Dayton, and I always thought that it was a small independent store. Not the case. Every store feels like a small independent store. I guess that’s why it’s better than Borders and the like. That, and the books are cheaper. You’ll find all the classics as well as the latest in cutting edge novels. They have a relatively small selection of CD’s and records, but the selection is pretty choice. It isn’t bogged down with a lot of terrible options.