Half Price Books

God bless Half Price Books. Selection, price, and customer service keep me coming back.

I went in with my daughter today with two bags full of books and CDs. I was able to get $ 15 in store credit within 30 mins! This is my favorite location by far! Friendly staff and it’s always clean!

First half priced books I’ve been to, and I love it! I’ve been looking for an affordable used book store. They’ve always got a nice selection of movies & CD’s in addition to the myriad of books. They shoot the gamut on book topics; I’ve gotten my technical manuals here, as well as comic books, and even a few rare first edition books (I’m a collector). The staff are always friendly & helpful.

The employees at this HPB are always nice, helpful and make me feel welcome. Love the business concept and the execution by the staff at the Round Rock location makes it my bookstore of choice.

They have a great selection of books, movies and comics. They give a fair price on things you are trying to sell. The sad thing is that it takes a few customers to ruin the fun. They got rid of their locked comics (with the old $ 0.15 comics) because some jerks out there would rip them through the middle of the box instead of asking for help to look at something old. They’re thinking of moving the box to the front register, which I think is appropriate. Like I said, takes a few customers to ruin things.

This last time I took books in they said I could leave the store while waiting for my offer! Woot!
I only take books maybe every few years but this last time they said I could leave as long as I would take whatever they offered. I didn’t care, I was moving out of Pville so it was take them to Goodwill or get my $ 5 at Half Price haha. But you know what? THIS TIME I GOT $ 20!!! Hahaha It only took like 3 big boxes of books ;) Btw they told me books on ADD/​ADHD fly off the shelves so you get more for those. So if you’re in the mood for Happy Hour at Sonic, take a couple of your ADD books and get you some $$ ;)
So I’m sorry to say but 3 stars. They rarely have any book I’m looking for and they just aren’t as cool or have the selection as my favorite location by Frys. BUT since it’s our special needs son’s #1 requested place to go to, I’m very glad they have a location near us. Except that we just moved so now it’s like 20 minutes from us haha.
One more thing, if you’re new to Austin you have to go to Half Price. It’s our cool, used bookstore that pays us pennies on the dollar for our books but then we can buy each other’s books for a lot less than B&N and the atmosphere is way better :)

Love this place. It’s always clean and well stocked. The associates are friendly and helpful. It is a smaller location compared to some of the others so it doesn’t take long to do a quick browse of the place.

This location isn’t bad but I prefer the old location. The parking lot in the front of the store gets crowded and the one in the back has plenty of space but has very poor lighting. The store itself is pretty small but has a pretty decent selection.

Super friendly staff, fairly good selection. They didn’t have the obscure book I was looking for, but they had 2 others I was thinking of reading. I haven’t tried selling books here, but buying was a great time!

Found 4 books by a new sci fi writer I like, Taylor Anderson… I’m a happy camper.

smaller store and hard to navigate the aisles during busy times, but it’s a convenient location and I usually find what I need

Nice, clean, bright store with decent music in the background. Books are very reasonably priced and the selection is huge. Doesn’t look like much from the outside, but the inside is pretty impressive. They have chairs set up around the store so you can sit down to peruse your book selection. Nice place to stop in if you just don’t feel like book shopping from a computer screen with Amazon.

Am I a frightening, obtuse, fierce, sordid looking girl? Just tell me the truth, because if you went by how the staff that checks me out treats me, you’d have thought I shaved their kitty cat. I’ve been there three times now and each time the checkout girl acts like a kid in China will die if she smiles. I don’t get it. That said, I do love the location and convenience of this store and they always have at least one book that makes me a hero to my kids when I walk through the door.

CLOSED. New location is at:
2601 S. I-​35 STE. E300
Round Rock, TX 78 664
Located near Home Depot

I love this store, and I love the location. I’m very nearly addicted to it, especially when they’re doing a sale. To be sure, if you’re looking for a specific book, there is probably a less than even chance you’ll find it on any one particular visit. You should check here first, though, because if they do have it, it’ll be a fraction of the price you’ll pay at B&N. Plus, you’ll end up walking out with a bunch of other books you found while searching for your intended target. The inventory is constantly rotating, so if you can wait, your book will likely turn up eventually. FYI, my preferred genre is history and biography, so you escapist teeniebopper vampire fiction types might see things differently; not sure.
This location is smaller than the Austin locations. It’s also more laid back and relaxing, and the inventory is still voluminous (pun intended). The complaints about selling really boggle the mind. How do you think HPB can sell you that bestseller or Pulitzer Prize-​winning tome for $ 6 or $ 7, while providing a physical location for you to shop and a livelihood for those nice people behind the counter? Not by paying sellers top dollar, of course. Grow up people; this is a business.

For the record, I’d like to review this Half Price as a book store not as a place to sell books. Obviously, they have to get inventory from some place though.
The store is alright though a little small. The folks in here are pretty friendly. I have a very low success rate at finding what I’m looking for in here though. Maybe it has to do with the books and the music that others in Round Rock are selling. I never find the music I want and rarely walk out with a book that I went in looking for. On the other hand, the DVD section is pretty good.
My recommendation is that you just come in when you know you want something but aren’t looking for anything in particular. Of course, I will continue to visit this store in the hopes of finding what I seek. After all, I am forever the optimist.

I love half price books in general, and I enjoy this location mostly because they are a Half Price Books. The store is a little on the small side, so the selection isn’t the best, but it is a nice little bookstore for bargain-​hunting, and I usually find something worth perusing and possibly buying.
My kids enjoy the kids’ section and I do too. It’s a good place to find readers at all grade levels, for pretty cheap.
It’s not the best place to sell your books. The one on N. Lamar will buy everything you take them, but really, HPB in general will not buy much. If you have valuable books and want top-​dollar for them, sell them yourself on Amazon. If you have books that are selling for $.01 on Amazon, have a garage sale and sell them for a quarter apiece. If you have some leftover after that, take them to HPB on Lamar.
But if you’re just looking to shop for some cheap books, movies, and music, this is a great place.

I just love this store! I don’t think there was ever a time that I left this store empty-​handed. And I always feel like I got my moneys worth.
From what I have overheard, while browsing through the DVD section, it seems that one doesn’t get much money from selling their used books here. But as a person that is just buying, I feel like I am getting a pretty good deal compared to what I’d be spending at the big-​name chain stores.
And as an added bonus, that staff is really friendly :-)

This particular HPB is paperback heaven! They always seem to have the cheesy paranormal romance or fantasy book I’m looking for. I’ve also found many a board game here for cheap. I really like this particular HPB and go here about once a month, even though it’s in Round Rock.
The store is large and there’s plenty of parking. No complaints!

I don’t know what it is about Half Price books… but every time I walk in here I have to pee. It’s like a Pavlovian response…. Too much information? Maybe… but they have a nice bathroom, and it’s nice to know I could find a book on Dr. Pavlov in the store if I wanted to research my condition.
I always check Half Price Books before heading to Barnes and Noble, Borders, or Book People. You’d be surprised at how many times they’ve had the book I’ve been looking for. Unfortunately asking for help or calling ahead isn’t an option. They don’t have an «inventory», they just price them and put them on the shelves.
They only get 4 stars because sometimes they can charge a lot for an obviously older and outdated book. Also, their bathroom is nice, but not soundproof, and the bookstore is obviously quite. I run the water as a distraction… I would rather people think I’m washing my hands for 2 minutes then hear me peeing (I’m fooling nobody…).