Half Price Books

I LOVE when the employees of a place are so much like its customers. It is clear to see that all the people who work here truly love books as much as Wifey does. Her collection keeps growing and the Half Price Books team is unitedly working toward making my home look more like a library, including suggesting the addition of extra bookshelves from Ikea.
I love how friendly and knowledgeable they are. The signage in the store is true, they really are avid readers who can help if you are having trouble selecting your next book.

This place is great… just great! Great staff, great selection and great prices.

Love this place. Staff is very friendly and knowledgeable. The lines move very quick and their prices are great. Very clean and organized.

For the last 7 years I have been a loyal Half Price Books customer and frequent about 20 different locations in California, Texas, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky. This location happens to be located in my home town.
Once I found them I stopped going to Borders, hummm? I can spend an hour at a time in the store and I love to troll the vintage books to find out of print and hard to find Sci-​Fi. That said so do other people which can make it hard to find a specific book (s).
There is a lot of stuff in a Half Price Books that aren’t books; CD’s, Albums, DVD’s, Games, stationary, calenders, etc. This can become distracting and have an effect on your wallet when its time to pay.
You will get better money on Craig’s List or Ebay for high value items you want to sell, but HPB’s is a great place to unload tonnage.
If you have never visited a Half Price Books, the location in Florence is one of the better ones and can become highly addictive.

Having been to every other Half Price Books in the Cincinnati area numerous times, a trip to the Florence location has been long overdue, and even though it is the farthest from me in terms of distance, it was well worth the journey it took to get there.
If you have been to a Half Price Books, you should know what to expect here, but for those who haven’t, they are a chain that buys and sells all kinds of different used media, such as books (obviously), DVDs, CDs, tapes, and records. Like other HPB, the Florence location was also very clean and well staffed by friendly, smiling, employees who seemed happy to offer their assistance.
Be sure to check out the various clearance sections throughout the store on your visit! You can often times find some really good stuff stashed away in here on the cheap.

My favorite place to get magazines that I don’t subscribe too. They always have a wide selection.

This is a great store. I usually find what I need or browse for as long as my toddler allows. My weakness is cook books, and HPB has plenty. There’s always something for my son as well.

Great place to sell your used books and get some quick cash. This Half Price Books is a good size and has a great selection of current fiction/​non-​fiction with a mix of older stuff. The clearance section is great — last time I was there, there were even some iPad sleeves for $ 2.00!
Don’t expect to get a ton of money for your books, but it is a good choice if you have a lot of books to unload and a good number are current or newish fiction/​non-​fiction.

I stopped into Half Price Books a couple of weeks ago for the first time to sell a bunch of used books. While the money I got for the books wasn’t great (I could’ve done much better if I had sold the books on Amazon or Ebay), the store itself was REALLY impressive. It’s clean and the books that are on the shelves have great variety and most of them are in great shape. My wife and I went back there to do much of our Christmas shopping and we were able to find great deals… Books that appeared to be brand new that were listed for $ 15 that we were able to buy for less than $ 5. My wife was a little concerned that it was going to be like a gigantic book Goodwill, but it’s more like Barnes and Noble with Goodwill prices… a combo that can’t be beat!

One of my favorite places to go, I’m there at least once a week.

My wife and myself consider ourselves pretty nerdy in the sense that we’d rather spend a weekend night at a bookstore than at a bar. If there was ever the equivalent of Party Source for the literati, this is it!
The books are reasonaby priced although I’m pretty sure they base their prices off of the manufacturer’s suggested retail price rather than what it will actually sell for at a Barnes & Noble. But who’s complaining? Not me!
You have to keep me out of the clearance section: I can walk out of there with at least 5 or 6 books each and everytime. Plus, the selection of kid’s books keeps my daughter occupied for hours.
The staff is alway courteous and willing to help. The CD and DVD selection is pretty darn good as well! I know I’m preaching to the choir with those who will read this review, but isn’t it always nice to have the good word reinforced from time to time?

I love this store! Especially when they have $ 1 dvds… You can pick up some good computer games for cheapola and cds too… you just have to look… If you like to browse dvds and cds and computer games then this is the place for you… oh yeah and books too… Great place though… friendly peeps work there too and the bathrooms are almost too emaculate

Are you freakin’ kidding me!!! I just purchase an «All Inclusive» collection of Poe’s Poetry, Prose, Stories and letters in one huge volume for $ 7.99 (and I had a 15% off coupon! Total: $ 7.23!!!) That is not a misprint… All of Edgar Allen Poe’s collected works for $ 7.23!!! Do I really have to say anything else about this book joint… really?!

I love this place.
If you love to read and haven’t already switched over to buying only e-​books, then what could be better than buying half priced books?
They have a very wide selection, and a lot of books they have more than one copy of. I like to only buy books that look new, so I look through them and pick the most perfect one.
All of the books are at least half price of what it says on the back. Sometimes they have sales, and they always have clearance making it an even better deal than half off.
They also sell Cd’s and movies, not a very big selection, but they do have some.
They also buy used books and such. I’ve never sold anything so I’m not sure how much they pay, but since they sell them for so cheap, I’m sure it’s not that much.

I’m thrilled to have a Half Price location within a mile of my home. Makes for an easy way to drop mass amounts of cash when I can’t think of anything else to do but go buy books that end up on my never-​ending «to read» list!
Seriously, I’m so happy about it – really. My husband and I used to compile our lists of things we wanted to read and then head up to Kenwood biannually for a major book purchase. Usually around Christmas (with Christmas money!) and then the summer. But now, it’s right in our own back yard.
The staff always seems helpful – well, the guys, anyway. And the selection is great in the genre’s I’m typically looking – especially cooking, gardening and non-​fiction. Ample enough Jamie Oliver cookbooks to keep me going back each payday!

Why did it take me so long to finally go in here? I came in on a recommendation from a friend. When I first pulled in the lot, I took it as a good sign that it looked fairly busy even on a very rainy day. The store was really well-​staffed with non-​pushy employees. I didn’t find what I came in for, but took my time browsing through the large selection, determined not to leave empty-​handed. I decided on a paperback that cost a whole $ 6.48. If you’ve read any of my other reviews, you know I’m a big fan of email sign-​up deals, so when I found this store has one, I was smitten.
As I was leaving, I saw something I had missed earlier: a little table by the door with a coffee and creamer station set up. How cute is that?!

For years I went to the Half Price up by Tri-​County Mall, and while I loved it for its cozy size and friendly employees, driving half an hour to get there was something of a pain in the ass, so trips were pretty infrequent. If I had a pile of books to sell I had to sit on them for six months.
Then I spotted the newer, much larger Half Price while heading down Houston one day, and I rejoiced. The place is exactly what I had hoped it would be – the same prices and friendly bookish people at the register, only Wal Mart sized.
Here’s the deal for the buyer: tons and tons of books, including just about anything you’d want to find, be it literature, romance, psychology, cooking, or film. DVDs and CDs abound, as well, though in not quite the same selection. Everything, and this is not the shameless sales pitch it sounds like, is priced so low you won’t believe it. I’ve bought for-​realsies books there, books I had been looking to buy anyway, for three bucks. But then I may just like crappy books.
Here’s the deal for the seller: You bring in your pile and set it on a desk at the back. You browse around for ten minutes until they call your name over the intercom. You come back and they give you their offer, which will always be disappointingly low, but then how else would this place turn a profit? If you accept, they take the books and give you a receipt, which you turn in to the front register for your cash.
Half Price virtually eliminates the need to go to a Barnes and Noble or Borders, unless you want a brand new release or you want to drink a five dollar latte while you read (and you can’t just wait until you get to the Starbucks on Mall Road). I’m patient in both regards, so this is the only book store in which you’ll ever find me.

The concept of this store is great… I don’t really know why I was being books from the regular bookstores before… Literally books are 50% the normal price! I’ve always found every single been that I’ve looked for at this location… I would pick this location over the Kenwood store because I feel like they are better organized and there are always people around asking to help. Another cool thing is they accept and sell recent magazines for like a dollar! Love it!