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Our Re-Home or Recycle your books service
We offer our customers a service to re-home or recycle your unwanted books. We accept all books, and for those of sufficient quality to sell to new homes, we pay €0.40 per book in the form of a book voucher. Books not in good enough condition will be recycled responsibly.
How the process works
- On completion of this FREE product at the checkout, you will receive an order number.
- Once your box(es) is/are ready, they can be booked in for collection or they can be brought to the post office.
To Book in box(es) with an post use the Return your online shopping link on the An Post website or follow this link: https://www.anpost.com/Post-Parcels/Click-and-Post/Returns
Type book into the find a retailer box: Select the bookshop.ie
Reason for return: Select Other
Order Number: Enter the Order number received from us at the checkout
Complete the checkout with An Post
Please note the following:
- Multiple boxes can have the same order number
- Collection from your chosen address by An Post costs €6 per box (Max 20kg)
- Dropping off at the post office costs €4.95 per box (Max 20kg)
- Vouchers are paid at €0.40 per book.
- Processing this product in no way commits you to sending us books.
- Once your books have been processed we will email you a gift certificate
- Parcels that do not have an order number can not be paid for.
CHECKLIST FOR PACKING YOUR BOOKS:
- Pack your books into a sturdy cardboard box (no bags).
- Ensure your books are secure so they aren’t damaged in transit (under-filled boxes are likely to collapse, and over-filled to burst open). Seal the box with strong adhesive tape designed for shipping
- If you can hear or feel the contents of the box moving inside, then they are not packed properly
- Make sure your box weighs no more than 20kg (an Easy way to do this is to weigh the books in batches on a kitchen weighing scales)
- Write your order number clearly on each box
We cannot be held accountable for the items damaged in transit due to poor packaging. If you are sending more than one box per consignment, please ensure these are packed separately and clearly labelled.
We Reject and Recycle books with the following damage:
- Water damage
- Missing pages
- Excessive annotations, underlining or highlighting
- Ripped, damaged spine
- Creased or torn covers
- Missing dust jackets
- Discoloured cover or pages
We Recycle but do not pay out for the following:
- Magazines
- Used School books
- RTE Guides
- Foreign language books
- Puzzle books, e.g. crosswords, Sudoku etc.
Please be aware that when we receive your books, they will be manually checked on arrival.
We cannot return any books that have been rejected however we will recycle any items that have been deemed unsellable.
20 Kg = Approx: 60 Paperback books or 50 Large Paperback / Hardback books
The easiest way to weigh books is get a kitchen scale and weigh them in batches of 4 or 5 kg
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Re-home books
great service, love it, thank you! :)
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Re-home or recycle
Fabulous service to keep books in circulation. Easy service to use. Delighted to receive my voucher
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Great way to re-home books
Really easy process and a great way to re-home books.
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Good service
Excellent service. Lovely surprise book too.
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Recycling
This is an excellent service, I am so glad my books are going to a happy place and someone else will benefit from them. An excellent service.
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Excellent Idea
I love using this process for disposing of books in an environmentally positive way. The books are either resold or recycled responsibly. The only cost is the €6 for An Post to collect the books (in batches of max weight 20kg) and as you are paid (in store credit) for every book chosen to be sold on, this is easily recouped. As a school librarian I find this resource invaluable.
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Rehoming books
Approx 16 out of 40 of the books I sent were rejected which I didn’t think were in bad condition - there’s no way to find out why they were rejected which is a little annoying
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book return
This is a marvellous service. We are doing a retrofit of our house and found many unwanted books that would otherwise have had to go for recycling. Instead they are being read again bringing joy to other readers.
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Excellent service
The Book Shop is a brilliant service. I was able to declutter over 60kgs of books and for a very reasonable cost. I used some of the voucher to buy books for my little grandaughter. These arrived so quickly. They are incredibly effecient in both processes.
