Re-Home or Recycle your books

Product Description

Our Re-Home or Recycle your books service

We offer our customers two services to re-home or recycle your unwanted books. We accept all books and pay for those of sufficient quality to sell to new homes. Books not in good enough condition will be recycled responsibly.

Service 1 drop off:

How the process works

Just bring your books to:

TheBookTemple

48 patrick street

Templemore

E41D880

Opening hours: 1-6   7 days a week

Books of sufficient quality to sell to new homes, dropped off at TheBookTemple will be paid for either at €0.25 cash per Book or €0.40 voucher per book. (The choice is yours)

• Vouchers are only valid on TheBookshop.ie website and will be issued within 48 hours of dropping off books.
• If you have a bigger load of books than the sales person can handle they may direct you around the back to the warehouse for unloading.

Service 2 collection or drop off at post office :

How the process works

1. On completion of this FREE product at the checkout, you will receive an order number.
2. 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
• No cash payments on this service
• Parcels that do not have an order number can not be paid for. 

CHECKLIST FOR PACKING YOUR BOOKS:

1. Pack your books into a sturdy cardboard box (no bags).
2. 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
3. If you can hear or feel the contents of the box moving inside, then they are not packed properly
4. 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)
5. 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