Half Price Books

Half Price Books is a regular stop for my family when we are out shopping! Two thumbs up!
It’s a great place to buy and sell your books, CD’s and DVD’s

I spent a good hour browsing through everything they had here – books, CDs, tapes, DVDs, records, blu rays, magazines, NES video games, board games, comics, accessories, and even shirts. Extensive amount of old and new material, with some clearance sections (like DVDs and CDs under $ 3 in the back). Many things caught my eye, yet I still walked out with nothing. Of course, online shopping beats this by about $ 1 every time, but the convenience of knowing something is here is pretty cool.

Great selection of both new and used books. Happy, friendly staff. Good gift options for book lovers and educators.
They buy books, and my first time going through that process was quick, much much quicker than I expected.
Some books are marked at specially reduced-​to-​sell prices — I’m a total sucker for those! (i.e. a hard cover copy of Salinger for only a couple bucks)

A great store for buying books and games and such. I like to frequent the store semi-​regularly just to see what new games and books they’ve gotten. Prices are reasonable, as the name of the store implies.
I took a large collection of Dungeons and Dragons books and tile sets to them to see what I could get for them. The books were 4^th edition and it was well before 5^th edition was released. I was taken aback at the price offered to me. I’m sure for regular novels and books, you probably expect a low return but for gaming books, especially ones they had no stock of, I was not pleased with that result.
I stick to the buying and leave the selling of books for myself. As long as I do that, I’m a happy customer.

The store is nice and clean but their CDs are way OVER PRICED for being USED and I love when they put on the sticker, «$ 9.99, selling online for $ 20» then you look online and it’s selling for $ 12. If you are in to used CDs and willing to trace 45 mins go to Bloomington’s store better selection and most highest priced cd is $ 3.99!!!

There are always some great deals to be found here. We did quite a lot of Christmas shopping here (lots of readers in the family) and got more than we planned on just because we kept finding things that we liked /​knew they would like. We also sold some books to them while we were here. They don’t pay a lot, but what else was I going to do with those extra books we had sitting around?

Great store, with a great selection! I’d go back if I lived here.

Some Half Price stores can be so unorganized and crammed full of stuff. This location is clean, friendly and easy to shop. It’s much easier to browse when you aren’t overwhelmed by junk and overstocked merchandise. I find myself spending much more time in this location than other Half Price stores. Great place for hard (er) to find items, gift items, activity kits for kids and calendars. I always get a desk calendar for my dad at Christmas and Half Price always has the best selection at reasonable prices.

I am admittedly a book fanatic, so I just love this place, I could get lost in it for hours. This particular location is very big and has such a great selection! You may never know what you are going to find if you end up wandering and almost always you can find something you’ve been wanting to read at a great price (even better if it is on clearance which TONS of books are every day!). They even have an awesome selection of CDs and DVDs. This place can be very bad on my wallet…
I have sold here before and don’t expect to make a fortune but it is nice to get some money back and not have to go through the hassle of selling everything individually on your own. Also, keep in mind that their prices are very much influenced by supply and demand, so even if you have a popular book from last year, they may already have plenty of copies on their shelves. They will donate books they don’t feel they can sell, so even if I don’t make anything I know they are getting used which is a good feeling.
The only frustrating thing is to sometimes have no idea what section the book you are looking for is in, ex. a book could be fiction/​sci-​fi/​mystery and you don’t know what area it is filed under. I am sure the workers would be happy to help when they can but sometimes this store gets too busy to have many floor helpers. Oh well, just gives me an excuse to wander around and check out all the sections!

One of my favorite places. The staff is always friendly and willing to help. There are always treasures to be found and they’ll even pay me for my old books!

As my profile states this is a common place to find me, that said, this is my least favorite store of the 3 in the City. It’s the most sterile & uncluttered if your into that, but I need a little chaos in a used book store. I want a little dust on the jacket. A few more overstuffed and broken in chairs would be a plus as well.
Don’t get me wrong I’m glad your less than 6 miles from my house, and one of only 2 books stores on the west side, but a used bookstore like the tombs they sell, should have a little wear around the edges.

Great service and one can find a diamond in the rough here! We found tons of awesome vinyl records!!! I am old school; I prefer to read «real» books and not E-​Books (Kindle) and half price books is a wonderful place for people who love to read and read a lot! I buy a dozen books at a time for about $ 10-​$ 15 then I bring it back within a month or two and get another dozen books. Besides books they carry wonderful gifts, trinkets, very unique stationary, greeting cards, and both new and used board games, records, cd’s, dvd’s, and blu-​rays.
And of course prices are beyond reasonable!!! Love this place!

The Greenwood location is on my side of town but the Avon location is much cleaner and nicer and more orderly. I have always had great success in locating fiction books on my list and mystery novels on my mom’s list. They have a pretty good selection of movies and music that I like to browse through also. I like this store and I’ve always been treated very courteously here.

The store is nice and neat and laid out like all the others, but these people are too slow. I was just trying to sell some videotapes. I really didn’t care if I only gave me a quarter per tape, but they were so slow that it took them 25 minutes before they even told me that they haven’t even looked at them yet. I left and went to the Greenbriar location, where they are more fully staffed and quicker and more considerate of time commitments.

I ask, «Inner-​Rabbi, where could I go to feel on top of things… organized…complete…that tells me there’s order in a world of such chaos?! Where Inner-​Rabbi? Where?»
Inner-​Rabbi kindly replies, «There’s a place in the hinterlands of Indiana, amidst merry strip-​mall shoppers, is a used bookstore where all is catalogued, all is alphabetized, all is calm.»
«Yes, Inner-​Rabbi! Yes!»
Inner-​Rabbi grovels and jostles for his Parker Pen.
«Where Inner-​Rabbi!?»
«Half-​price Books. The location in Avon. In a strip-​mall behind the Chuck-​e-​Cheese & next to Ashley Furniture. You will feel like you are entering the oasis of your unconscious. In fact! You are entering that peaceful chasm of your mind, where all is organized. Where all aisles are wide. Where the clearance section is free of non-​clearance books. Where people give back books by Pynchon, Huxley & David Foster Wallace that they could never finish. You are saving these orphans of fiction, and with that you are no longer an orphan of fiction!»
«Ahhhhhh Inner-​Rabbi thank you!»
«As usual, young man, as usual, leave the cash under the doormat.»