Half Price Books

I asked the guy at the information desk to search up two books for me, and he said that he could only help me with one. I turned around and I was literally the only person in line. It took him less than 30 seconds to pull up my book. Then one guy got in line and he proceeded to help him out. I’ve been to other HPB with a longer list of books, and they were more than happy to walk with me to find all the ones that were in stock. I would’ve been just satisfied if someone told me which section to look at. What’s the point of even having an information desk if you’re unwilling to help customers?

I love this store. But I do not like rude workers! It is your damn job to assist customers when needed. The young man on the register was rude as hell when I asked him if he could check to see if a planner was at a different location. He had an attitude when I asked. It’s your JOB bro. People need to learn customer service skills. Pissed me off.
I normally don’t have these issues, but today I did.

This store is located right next to my house so I frequent it often. I collect records but there are no record stores close to this neighborhood so I always go to HPB to check out their records. Sometimes their records are overpriced and they don’t seem to price their stuff on condition but sometimes you can find some gems. At times, I have walked away from here with tons of records all at very good prices and some at even incredible prices. Of course this is not always the case because their pricing is very inconsistent. I have seen the same album priced at 3 different prices on three different occasions ranging from 3 – 20 dollars. But overall, for a book store I think their record selection is very good. They also do carry new vinyl and with their coupons and sales, it is possible to come out with very good deals. I have checked out the other parts of the store and for a store its size, I think they have a pretty good selection. Their staff has always been nice and friendly to me too!

This place is cool. I like this place for getting children’s books, VHS, and certain movies. The prices are discounted but not always the cheapest for the items that you are looking for. They have dvds, and more often than not you can find the dvds cheaper at walmart or amazon.
Keeping in mind that it is a discount store, they do not have all the books your heart will desire. So for myself I prefer barnes and nobles, but for my 2 year old this place is like the Disney World of Books!

Staff was so so helpful and sweet! I feel that they also attract amazing customers because the people I interacted with were AMAZING! One woman overheard I’m a first war teacher and donated her books to me instead of selling them to half priced! The cashier also made sure to get me the teacher ten percent discount! So amazing! Definitely coming back! (:

Oohhhh Emmmm Geeeee. I first visited this store a few weeks ago and I fell in love with it. Because it’s a more humble, down to earth, slightly messy version of a mixture of Barnes & Nobles and your neighborhood library. The staff here are so kind and helpful, the shelves are organized beautifully, there is a lot of wonderful little things like mugs, book inspired shirts, bookmarks, Childrens leaning toys, and vinyl music discs. It’s amazing to me how small this place is yet how large their inventory is. They even have a small dvd/​blue ray disc next to the children’s books in the back of the store. I did not know this until I got home and was glancing at my receipt but they even buy back books! How great is that?! Although I doubt that’ll come in handy with me since I have a hard time parting with even the books I read but dislike but still it’s pretty neat. Love love love this place and can’t wait to come back and explore what other goodies they have.

Pretty neat place to browse. You have all types of books to select from, whether it be to collect or trade in. I like the options of being able to sell books back. It was fun, didn’t have anything that caught my eyes the first few times, but I should probably stop in more to check it out!

Staff is always friendly and helpful. 85% of the time that I am looking for a novel or movie, they have it!
Renee, the manager, makes a huge effort to always greet me and thank me for my business since I am a regular there.
I do agree with other reviewers that their sell-​back program DOES NOT truly pay out what one thinks it should. Example = I brought in several complete seasons of current popular TV and Cable shows. For 6 complete season DVD sets, I was only offered $ 7.50. I know you sell them cheap, Half Price, but really!?!

I do enjoy this store and the people there are friendly and helpful.
I have requested before more postcards especially the ones that they have carried before the are Buddhist orientated. You have carried them before at this store but have not seen them recently.
With palms folded
Rev. Hui Yong Shih

I mainly go here to check out cookbooks. They have a really good selection, they don’t have everything, but their inventory does seem to change so you might be able to find it eventually. The prices are great, less than what I can get it for on amazon and the books always look new. I did browse a couple of the other sections and couldn’t really find what I was looking for. They seem to have a lot of travel guides, but none from the current year. This store is big, clean and organized and the staff members are always friendly and nice.

I have been to this location several times. The customer service there is fantastic and they always have great stock.

My sister and I love this place, I’m not a avid reader but when I get the urge I’ll come here and pick out a random book or two. We tend to spend significantly less here than going to a new books store.
I enjoy just roaming the aisles and looking into anything that catches my attention. There is a good selection of books which are organized by category, so it’s fairly easy to find whatever you’re looking for. The staff are always pleasant to work with although my interactions with them are only during checkout.

Nice place in general.
We unloaded a bunch of our library and they were quick.
Decent selection of used books, but the one downtown is a tad better.

I come here strictly for their clearance section. You can find popular best sellers for $ 1!
I have a Kindle and usually read all my books on that but sometimes you just want a real book and I can always find something to buy for $ 1.
This store is always clean and for the most part have what I am looking for. I can spend hours wandering around here.

A collection of all things old that you might see at your neighbor’s garage sale.
Seriously, old video games to crappy toys. They have everything but the books you need. So much useless crap that makes me think Farenheit 451 might be on to something.

I like coming here to browse the cookbooks and the manga section to see if I can fill in the spots needed in my collections on my bookshelf, other than that, I rarely roam around the rest of the store.
They got a ton of DVDs which you can probably find cheaper online, a plentiful amount of records which would look great hanging off your walls, and wide aisles to walk through as well as lots of space unlike other resale book stores.
This is one of the better half-​price books in my opinion but every store is a little different. Do not sell your items here though because they almost give nothing back. I once brought in three bags filled with children’s books and all I got back was $ 3.00. Ever since then I’ve just been donating them.

I agree with Sheira H… back in the days before Amazon, Half Price Books was great. But I rarely want to pay the price they are asking for the random books they have in stock. It’s fun to wonder around and look at the clearance stuff, though I didn’t find anything to buy. I just enjoy looking at the video games and dvds for cheap, and perhaps one day I’ll actually buy something here.
Oh… it also bugs me that political pundit commentary is classified as «political science» but books on international relations are «military,» and books on the presidency are «history…» and it’s not even that consistent.

Not my favorite half-​price. If you like romance novels, children’s books, and cook books, then this is a good one. For me though, the better one is in the Rice Village part of town.
Also, it seems some homeless people like to use this as a place to cool off (at least when I’m there) which makes it difficult to breath in some areas.

If it wasn’t at the edge of the known universe, I would visit more often.
It has a selection of books that have not been picked over by the U of H and St. Thomas crowd, so there are some left-​overs for me.
Now I know where it is, tucked up close to the Specs and just down the street from Phoenicia, it might be worth a once a week drop in.
The staff was unfailingly polite and the feel is of a slightly smarter, more attentive environment that the one in the Montrose.
Do not ask me about the one in the village :-)

This little book store is surprising full of odds and ins. While this isn’t the biggest Half Price, or the best. It’s still pretty good for it’s size and location.
I used to shop at a Half Price in Austin that was the size of a Barnes and Noble. Believe it or not, I couldn’t ever really find cool stuff there because it was always sold out.
At this location, the stuff I want is there — maybe just one copy, hidden amongst the hundreds of copies of things no one wants, but it’s there. I actually walked around with several copies of books in my hand contemplating which one would be the one I bought. I mean, let’s be honest, I always do that because I’m a book freak and can’t ever make up my mind. But I did it at this one because the selection of books I wanted was crazy.
Plus this Half Price actually feels more like a half price store. I found a book that is hard back, fairly new that should have been at least 15 bucks for 2.50 — get out of here! I actually got to buy several books because of that.
I think they may have been renovating this last time though because there was a whole shelf of books missing. This is only my second time at this location so I don’t have a 100% feel for if this is THE half price for me or not.