Half Price Books

This place is a GREAT place to shop. I love browsing their record albums (only $ 1 a piece!) and have found some real gems to bring home to my record player (yes, I have one of those! LOL). I also love shopping for books BUT when it comes to selling, you don’t get much. The most I ever got was $ 20 and that actually surprised me because usually I get around $ 5-​$ 7 and that’s for 3 – 4 bags worth of books. I use Half Price Books when I just want to get rid of some stuff and would like some extra money to spend at Starbucks. :)

They may have a great selection of books, but if you sell anythig you aren’t going to get enough to pay for the gas it takes to get there. I ONLY take there books that are taking up too much spacein my house and NEVER expect to get more than a few dollars for a moving box full of them, even if they’re all in pristine or even new condition.
You’re better off selling them through Amazon (which is what I do). It’s so easy it’s trivial, and all it costs you is a trip to the post office. Yes, Amazon takes a healthy cut, but you still get more than you will at Half Price. I just sold a book on Amazon for $ 83, of which I’ll prbably see aroundn $ 70. At Half Price they would have given me a buck (it’s a hard cover).
I have to say that Half Price Books in College Station, Texas, while still not paying much; it at least had the atmosphere of an old book shop, and the help didn’t treat you like crap, unlike the one McKnight Road.

We stop here every time we make the trip to Robinson. They have an ever changing selection and a very helpful and friendly staff. The music area has some good finds too.

Hey kids, looking for a place to spend your allowance on cool stuff while shopping in Robinson Twp? Then this is the place for you. In fact, this Half Price Books is golden. I’m a regular here and I have been to my share of book warehouses, used book stores, and other Half Price Books stores, and this one gets the Big J Seal of Approval.
I really like the used CD section here. They have a nice selection of vinyl as well (including new as well as used LPs), but I have yet to delve back into the world of the 33 1/​3, seeing how I mostly gave that up by the late ‘80s. Still, if I ever do go that way once more, I will undoubtedly buy some rekkids here. But anyway, back to the CDs. It’s not a huge nor a vast selection, but I do usually wind up walking out with at least five discs every time I go in. Between the regular priced used stuff and the dollar clearance section, I have found lots of treasure in there. Why, just today I picked up some NRBQ and a ‘60s psych compilation featuring over 20 tracks from bands located in Illinois. Too hip for even the hipsters, dudes!
Half Price also has a really, really good used DVD section as well. Like the music section, I’ve bought tons of movies and TV shows on DVD here. All the stuff is nicely alphabetized and easy to peruse. And, also like the CD section, there’s a whole big clearance area as well. Today I got GREASE 2, one of the greatest terrible movies of all time! How could anyone have gotten rid of it? Whatt he heck ever happened to Maxwell Caulfield? I’m too lazy to look it up on Wikipedia, so I’ll just continue to wonder.
What about the books? Holy, wow! Lots of great books here. One of my faves is a copy of the Led Zep tome Shadows Taller Than Our Souls. I had been looking for it for a while, as my former GP clued me in to it during a visit to the office when I had one of my kidney stone episodes. He said it was great! It really is! And it was HALF PRICE, just like the store’s name says it would be, like it should be. There’s all sorts of extra goodies in the book, like facsimiles of papers and business cards and stuff that you can pull out and pretend like YOU WERE THERE.
So yes, a ton of great books in all genres, including a section of first editions and really old dusty things that everyone’s grandma has lying around the house just waiting to be set free into the world of used book stores.
There are also puzzles and video games, stuff for your tablets and smartphones, groovy little rock and roll and pop culture knick knacks, not terribly old magazines, USB turntables, a decent selection of comic books, some Dr. Who and Minecraft goodness, and lots more. I can spend a good hour or so easily just browsing through it all.
The staff is friendly and they know what they’re doing. You can sell your old books and music and movies to them so I can buy them at a later time. I haven’t personally done any selling to them, so I’m not sure how great the rates are, but I would imagine they’d be on par with other places. The point is, this Half Price Books is a great place to shop. Many gems to be discovered, or rediscovered here. Rainy days and Mondays never get me down anymore.

Half Price Books is a great store to find books for, well, half price :) Not only do they have a large selection of books, but they have a decent amount of CD’s and movies as well. I find it so hard to find a decent selection of CD’s in stores since everything has gone digital, so their large selection is a nice surprise. Also, you can’t beat buying a classic movie for as low as $ 1.99! The only negative thing that I have to say is that they don’t have a database as to what they have in stock, so you just have to rumage around and hope to find what your looking for. Go check out Half Price Books and I hope you like it as much as me :)