Looking for a quality used book? Check out the Friends of Corvallis-Benton Library’s online book sale location at Amazon!
We ship anywhere in the United States as well as internationally. Explore our inventory.
All income benefits the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library.
Where do our books come from?
Books that are donated to the Friends, or are discarded from the library worth more than $7-$12, are taken to our office. Then decisions are made as to whether the book can be sold online.
Not a book buyer at the moment?
You can also help the library by donating quality books to the Friends. Experienced volunteers sort, price, and route special titles and above average quality books for online listing. You might even find recent textbooks, technical books, some first editions, and signed editions in there!
Cool facts:
- Postage is paid to us by Amazon for each book sold.
- Most expensive book sold so far was $300, a book about coffee technology.
- 4% of sales revenue from was books in the $6-$6.99 range.
- Median sales price is $12.
- Non-fiction of all categories constitute majority of sales.
- If something doesn’t sell online, you might find it at the February book sale.
- We process over 3,500 books a year.
- Eight volunteers work in the Benton Books office.
- We’re currently rated five stars with customers!