Staff is kind, I've been here a ton and I recommend ordering stuff online if you're looking for something you can't find in store. Prices are decent ! Lots of sales going on throughout the year too! Clean shop :D read more

Another lovely location for half price books!!! I love strolling around, checking out the popular books and other nice stationery options. read more

I wouldn't bother bringing books in to sell! Store selection is great, staff is very polite & nice! The bathroom is clean. However I brought in 7 large grocery bags of books & novels... most in like-new condition. Many by very famous authors. They wanted all but about 10 of the books & offered me $18 for the ones they wanted to keep.... Had I left them 'all' of my books, I was told they would have gone on their shelves or to other stores. Crazy to donate products for them to sell. Makes more sense just to donate them & let a non profit sell them...or donate to Friends of the Library... I waited well over an hour to hear the $18 offer LOL.... CRAZY ME!! But it's a very nice place to shop! read more

Be advised ,they take all your personal information before making a low ball offer for your books . I wish they would make the offer before taking all your information. Utter waste of time and the guy appraising the books couldnt be less friendlier! I will donate my books to the local library instead ! read more

If you're the type of person who still likes the feel of holding the actual book and turning the pages when reading, this is the place for you! They have a wide variety of book selections. They also have magazines, manga, vinyl, dvd's and more! Books are of good quality and very affordable. The staff are helpful and friendly! We come here to buy and sell books. Check it out when you're in Fremont. read more

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Low buy back prices for books - I get it, they need to make a buck- but the staff here aren't friendly and are quite obnoxious. I rather donate my books to goodwill (which i've done) - All my books I do donate are either pristine (due to me buying duplicates at times due to collection) or in very good condition. While I understand risk over value, the staff's quite off putting. read more

Friendly service, wide selection of books, even some cartoon & anime merch, vinyls and CDs and collectibles as well. Some what quiet like a library vibe. Was able to find 1 of the 2 books i wanted for a fraction of retail price. There even was a writing inside, (it was used as a gift previously) which i wasn't in any relation of but still made me feel nostalgic. It was a cute little experience, 10/10 would recommend. read more

HARDCOVER FINDS When it comes to books Amazon has been a great resource to find books that are hard to find especially hardcover books that usually are the first edition. The main problem with Amazon is that you can't see the condition of the book. When a book you order from Amazon states it's "old feels like new condition" you might be disappointed when you get the book. When it comes to history books I prefer hardcovers over softcovers. I don't know why, but I guess it's preference. I guess one of the reasons is that history books tend to be longer than novels. When it comes to reading history books the cover can have wear and tear. Some of the history or biography hardcovers I purchased through this location were "American in Paris" by David McCullough, "Colonel Roosevelt" by Edmund Morris, and "Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt" by H.W. Brands. One hardcover book I had difficulty finding was Ron Chernow's first edition of "Hamilton", which inspired hip hop musical play that won the Tony Award for Best Musical and Pulitzer Prize for Best Drama. One of the workers at Half Price Books was able to retrieve this hardcover at another Half Price Books in the East Bay and had it shipped to this location. Speaking of David McClullough I also purchased two of hardcover books "John Adams" and "1776" on Monday Juneteenth of last year. Recently I purchased a biography of Andrew Jackson written by Jon Meacham that won a Pulitzer Prize Biography Award. Also from this location I bought the hardcover of Anthony Bourdain's memoir "Kitchen Confidential". I do prefer hardcover books whether they are history or fiction. As of right now I haven't bought a hardcover novel from Half Price Books. If there is a hardcover novel like to read, I'll buy it from this location. read more

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I ordered a book online. It was supposed to be shipped from here to CA. I get sent a UPS tracking number. It doesn't work or get updated for several days. I go to my local store and they can't find the order at all. I try to reach out to customer service and I get told it was shipped to Texas via USPS and it's my responsibility to go find it. The continue to dodge the question as to why it was sent there or to offer a refund. So here we are shaming them online because there are no consequences. read more

Extremely low buy back prices for selling used books. Small store, limited inventory. read more

I have been a customer of the Fremont branch of Half Price Books for several years now. Because of their extensive selection of books I have been able to read many hard to find books for a reasonable price. I have also ordered from them online with the same positive results. I have also sold many books and other items as well. They do not pay very high prices for the objects. I would check prices before selling there. However, the convenience (they take a very large range of items) can be worth it on its own. They can save you time by not having to try several places that may reject the items because they don't fit their exact customer preferences. Half Price Books is willing to take a lot of items because they are large enough to find a buyer. Finally, I have always found the staff to be friendly and helpful every time I have been there so far. read more

I have been selling getting rid of old books and making space for new books. I happen to find some pretty cool books on creativity and writing. The aisles are pretty simple and bold lettering, they sell cd's, journals books and all sorts of cool stuff. I found some good books on my last visit! This place is a jewel! Enso forever! Large parking lot. Lots of new and used books. "If you don't risk anything, you risk even more." --Erica Jong read more

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Perfect place to take your vintage media and "recycle" for some $$. Unload my vintage records and got some cash

As a retired business owner, I am especially sensitive to customer service, particularly superior customer service. Excellent customer service should be recognized and rewarded.  I would like to commend Half Price Books employee JOY at the Fremont (Hub), California store. She embodies everything good about good customer service. She is friendly, patient (I had six boxes of books), efficient and made several excllent suggestions as to how to process my book buy-back. This recommendation constitutes the recogniton portion of my above statement regarding excellent customer service. In my opinion, Half Price Books management should be generous with any reward (she would not accept a tip from me). Thank you JOY for your marvelous customer service towards me yesterday (August 7, 2025). read more

Half Price Books is located at the Fremont Hub where parking is easy. And it's nice to browse for actual printed books. There used to be a Barnes & Noble and a Borders here in Fremont, but they unfortunately closed a long time ago. I love stopping by here because I never know what I'll find. It's always a surprise. Don't come here with something specific in mind. It's a good place to stop for gifts, or even a gift card (which I get for my SIL so she can find something she likes here). They don't just have books.They have a nice selection of journals and jigsaw puzzles. There's also console video games, DVD movies, and music on vinyl and CD. I like to look through the cookbook section and the foreign language section. Store is well organized with good signage. read more

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Clean and cool looking place with nice people BUT... As a seller, it was almost insulting. We brought in a couple hundred books and at least 10-20 books that we brought in, they had for sale used at $6.99 and above. For all 200ish books they offered 6.74. 6 cents a book is what they will try to pay. I'm sure I can sell them on my own and make way more than that. The lady was really nice so I didn't want to tell her it was an insulting offer. I took my books back and went home. Probably spent more than they offered on gas getting their and going back home. Just a heads-up to set expectations. read more

This store has CDs, vinyl, DVDs, and books. It's well organized and not so big that you get overwhelmed. It's the right size to spend an hour or so browsing. I always seem to find something here. I especially appreciate the well stocked Fantasy section, and I always seem to find a CD I want. Parking is easy, too. read more

While it's nice to have a bookstore here in Fremont, I feel HPB could be a bit better. Here's why: Usually when I am trying to a find a book that's new or says it's available on their website, I can find it but this isn't the case usually in the store. I appreciate at least that this store is easy for me to get to: The associates say they can order and transfer the merchandise over to this store, which is fine, but it would be helpful to actually have more inventory. I think they could have a better selection of teen books, which I still enjoy reading, even though I am older now, in my 30s. It just doesn't have the same feel as say Barnes and Noble as there's not much seating and typically other bookstores have more of a selection. I miss Barnes and noble and borders at times. If you sell your items here, good luck because they seem to pay you very little even for brand new things. I brought in a brand new game and was literally offered $2... umm.. what? At that price, I just decided to keep it. SMH. Also there can be long wait times sometimes for buying back items and you have to stay in the store the whole time. read more

I recently got a record player which means buying more records! I figured, I don't really need new records and want to give a second, third, etc. life to other records. So I decided let's go to Half Price Books to see what they had for vinyls. I wish Rasputins still existed but they're a bit further away these days. L O C A T I O N Half Price Books is located in the Fremont Hub. It's not a busy place these days, so finding parking is not bad at all. I N S I D E Once you walk in, you get that waft of old book smell...you know that smell. It's the same smell I get when going into the Fremont Main Library. Everything is bright and well organized. They do have new books when I was walking in but I guess at a slight discount? Maybe I'm wrong. It's been a while since I've really bought books. The records were right smack in the middle. Don't just look at the ones on the upper shelves. There are also vinyls on the bottom shelves. I didn't really walk around the place too much as I was specifically going there for records. So I did see that they have board games too. They did have a good selection of items but yes some of them were quite higher priced than I was expecting. We did stumble on an instrumental/band record that unfortunately had holes in the sleeve so the record peeps out. It was only $4 but you can see someone sold this for $0.50 somewhere as it had a small sticker on it. Maybe it was a garage sale or something. Anyways, being the newb, I just gently wiped the record and started playing it on my new record player so you can hear all the pops and gravel in the record which is lovely but I didn't realize...whoops it may be hurting my stylus. So yes, I do hope they clean their records but I don't think so. I had to stop using my record until I go and buy more accessories. Clearly this will be an expensive hobby. S E R V I C E We easily paid at the register and they were quite happy there. It was nice! O V E R A L L I'll definitely be back when I'm more well versed in being a better audiophile. I do love a good book but don't like buying them as I just read them once and move on. But if you do read to keep, good options here! Lovely spot, hopefully they'll stay open as it's rare these days to find places like these. Come, visit, peruse, and perhaps be a patron. read more

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Half Price Books is a fun place to go to peruse a decent selection of books. They always have something new at the front display, which keeps things interesting. I was pleasantly shocked to find a brand new SIGNED hardcover book by John Scalzi, which I promptly snagged for my husband, who is a big fan. Staff here are very friendly and knowledgeable, and if you're looking to sell your books, vinyl, CDs, and more, this is a great place to go. read more

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My second time selling stuff here...I never expect much when it comes to selling. However... It was taking longer than expected and the associate that initially checked me in even said it wouldn't be long. But I noticed the associate was running around taking care of other things as they got busy. An hour passed so I decided to check in as I had to get going. While doing so another associate just got in saying that he was taking over. He had said "I'm not sure where she left off but should be almost finished" I mentioned that it's fine and if possible could just take an offer for whatever she had checked already. And all of a sudden he wraps it up and gives me an offer for EVERYTHING. So he went from not knowing where she left of to "yeah she checked everything" I kept asking to clarify that she had gotten through everything and he wouldn't give a straight answer and just said "yeah we'll take care of everything". The original associate helping me happened to come back and she even looked confused as he was handing me the offer. Since I had to get back to work I just laughed it off and said okay. Confident this guy just came in and maybe he felt offended by me asking for an update for some reason and just screwed me over with the rest of my stuff. At least that was all the clutter I wanted to get rid of from home and won't need to be coming back to sell anymore I guess. read more

What a cute little store next to Party City / Target. It doesn't seem much on the outside, but they actually have quite a lot of books. Besides books, they also have DVDs, games, comics, and vinyls. And a big counter to sell your books as well - I didn't personally learn how their buying works but I'm sure I will if I need to sell some in the future. The store also seems well maintained, the atmosphere is chill, and overall the customer service I received was great. The prices are also decent, for the conditions of the books. Will definitely come here again. read more

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Half Price Books is a gem! In this day & age, there aren't too many real bookstores left. I love going into a bookstore and browsing. I remember my days at UC Berkeley and how much I loved half price books on Shattuck Ave! To my surprise, I stopped by the Hub today and happened to drive by. I was at Target beforehand and saw this bookstore... and found some great books on politics :) all for a great price! Can't wait to read my books! read more

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They buy and sell books. You sell and they buy for cheap. You may bring in 20 books and get $5 for itc, what a rip off . They buy your books for so cheap then they sell it for more. I sold my books here and came back to see the prices on them and it's crazy how much they sell it for. Don't recommend to go here to sell your books at all. They said they buy it depending on how old the books are. SMH you're better off just donating it to goodwill just around the corner. read more

Called expecting the two dog book titles I was looking for would be impossible to find but was pleasantly surprised when they were in stock at satellite stores and could be transferred at no cost. I came back a week later and they had arrived and were in pristine condition. The staff was very knowledgeable and helpful to make the visit both productive and delightful. They even provided special dog treats for my two Standard Poodles! read more

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I love this bookstore. I've been coming here for more than a decade, buying books and recycling those that I've read and don't care to add to the home collection. This place smells like a bookstore, a good smell. And the people that work here are always friendly and helpful. I highly recommend. read more

This place has been my go-to for reselling old books. You may not get a ton back, but there's always a guarantee resale on old books and even baseball cards! There is a way and the place gets filled up on the weekends. They carry some good old titles on discount. Only one star less since it requires asking the front desk for a bathroom key. read more

Good mix of books (romance, non-fiction, manga), but as a seller you'll earn next to nothing--around $3 total for multiple boxes. They don't tell you which titles they're keeping, and you often wait over an hour just to get an offer. Only worth it if you live within ~8 minutes and just want the space cleared, not actual cash. read more

Located in the Fremont hub. I love books so it's natural that I had to pop in to see this book store It maybe small they have so many books,magazines,records . hPB as people call it also buys your book I find that super cool. The place is quiet you could literally find a section grab a chair and just browse! That is what I did when I visited. The price point of the books I looked at were 5.00 not a bad for a used Book. So if you don't want to pay full price I suggest you pop in and see what you can find. read more

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I just experienced the worst and horrible customer service. There was a tall male staff hovering over me and then took books out of my hands to place on the counter. I felt discriminated against and targeted as a woman. My friend who shops there said that never happens to him. read more

I have always had a great experience at this Half Price Books location. The clerks are pretty much always very friendly!!

Half Price Books has mostly books, movies, manga, and video games for people to enjoy. It's organized when every product inside the store are shelved based on its category in alphabetical order. You can basically buy things here at a cheaper price. You may not find everything you want here, but appreciate what they have in the store. One day, the items you're looking for will be stocked! read more

2.5 stars I have been to this location a few times now. It is easy to get to and no problems finding parking. The selection of books that they carry is decent. I can always find something that I am interested in reading. They do not give you much for books so if that is what you are looking for I do not suggest selling here. The lady who helped me with my books I was selling was nice and friendly. The other 3 employees I interacted with while here were all disengaging and not very helpful. Frankly, you can find better deals at thrift shops as far as pricing goes. This store is not bad but far from my favorite. read more

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Great used bookstore if you're buying. Insultingly low offers if you're selling. I had a set of The Art of Computer Programming which sells for $175 used, and they offered $12 for it, which is around 6% of the used price. Expect more like 3% of the used price if it's not brand new, or if they have several copies of a book. The only reason to sell here is if you value the space the books were taking up more than the books themselves, and wanted to do slightly better than just donating them all. Staff were nice, they don't have any room to haggle and don't set the policies. read more

Today I came out of the store fuming! I asked why is it necessary to see my ID and for them to have my phone number just in order to sell them a single book, and met with absolute hostility on the side of the people at the counter, with the result that they refused to buy my book! If the customer has no right to ask questions, and then can also be refused service, something in their personnel training is lacking. Their rigidity and hostility was contrary to common sense and common courtesy. I have sent the company a message via their FB page, asking for an apology, but so far to no avail. read more

My recent trip and pick ups from Half Price Books! Love this place so much, I will literally spend HOURS here just walking around and reading on their floor LOL. This place has so many vinyl, cds, toys/collectibles, and books from old to newly released books. Also a variety of sections, Self-help, Science, Romance, Religion, Travel, etc. There's always something for everyone! The pricing is amazing, my 4 books came out to be $20! Where else can you get 4 great quality books for $20? They also buy books, toys, etc. so if you have any books or items you're willing to let go of, take them here! read more

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Today I brought in three boxes of CDs, Cassettes, and about 20 books to their Fremont store today to sell. I didn't count the number of CDs, but there were dozens of which many were classical and never used. The CDs and cassettes were in perfect shape and seldom if ever played. Some were still wrapped. I should have read the reviews here, because it's true that they pay pennies on the dollar or less. They state in advance that you need to give them an ID and phone number, which I did, but I'm opening myself up to identity theft, because identity thieves now have two of the three bits of information needed for theft, which are date of birth and driver's license number, along with my name and address, of course. I was instructed to browse the store while they sorted through what I had, and you have to stay in the store because they call your name when they're ready to make you an offer. Of course, the object is that you'll browse the shelves and buy something while you're waiting. When I was called back, I was floored to be offered $13.51 for what I brought in, which was truly insulting and likely not enough to buy one decent book from them. However, I didn't want to drag everything back home, so told them to just keep everything and I didn't want their money. They said I needed to take their receipt and cash out in order to leave anything, so I just took the receipt and walked out. It's demeaning and I'll be damned if I'm going to grovel for chump change. I don't know if they pay for their merchandise from any other source other than individuals coming in to sell their personal property, but for those like me who come off the street to sell, I can't conceive of any other business that essentially gives nothing for their stock, so that each sale is virtually all profit. It borders on unethical. With this kind of business plan, it's not surprising that "Half Price Books's annual revenue is $255.6M" according to Zippia.com. Needless to say, this is the first and last time I'll be patronizing this company. I would have been better off donating or recycling rather than providing some of this company's inventory for almost nothing. read more

I used to love this place, this place used to be great. But not anymore..... they used to value customer services, but not tonight, definitely not towards someone who is Asian, and someone who is a Christian looking to purchase a Bible .... Let me tell you my story, my experience as of today 05/01/2021. I arrived today at approximately 756pm. There was a lady in the storefront blocking me from access. She spent approximately two minutes to inform me that store was about to close at 8pm. I told her I was there to pick up a bible, I noticed she became very hostile. The lady was very reluctant to let me in, after about two minutes she let me in the store at about 758pm. I went to the back of the store turned left corner, picked 3 King James Version of bible. I heard the announcement over the speaker that the store is closed. So I hurried myself to the register. Soon I arrived, I was going to do a final check up to make sure the Bible was in a legible condition. However the lady's work there pressured me to leave, made constant suggestions to ask me come back tomorrow..... Never have I ever felt being rushed and kicked out from the store. To me this is not how you operate a business, especially how you treat someone. I am a firm believer to support locally owned businesses, since the pandemic. But this place showed me hostility towards Christians. I will not be coming back here ever !!! Beware this is a anti Christian place !!!!! If you are a Christian follower they will kick you out !!! All facts !!!! read more

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Sometimes it is a good place to shop for hard to find books but a terrible place to sell books. The price is based on availability they say but PENNIES on a dollar? I went back and saw a book I sold (I know due to a marking on the book). I received .25 and they sold it for $9. What??? Unfair? You bet. Don't sell your books here. It won't be worth it. Donate it to the library or goodwill you will feel much better. Oh, and, I am not going back to this store. Don't lowball your customers when they sell you their books, CD's, or DVD's. They want to make money too and when you pay pennies on a dollar, you will not retain customers who want to shop and sell at your store. read more

Half Price Books was a surprise and a delight. the Fremont store is the biggest and best stocked HPB i've ever visited. they actually had a few books i wanted to buy. there were also hundreds to thousands i wouldn't. -found 2 Native American classic, Howard Zinn's People's History & Takaki's "a Different Mirror". they have books of every genre plus children's books, movies, & dvd's. lots of books look interesting but i wouldn't buy them. do ur research before shopping here. 1/2 price is great for classics but not for pulp fiction..... 3.5 stars. YMMV. there's a 10% off coupon at the bottom of their calendars. read more