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Sell your old books with Ziffit

Want to give your old books another lease of life? Declutter and make some extra cash by trading your used books, CDs, DVDs, and games through Ziffit.

Ziffit is an easy, efficient, and sustainable way to get rid of books and media you no longer need. Check out the free app and start trading today.

Find out more below.


Read our Impact Report!

Our impact report highlights all the ways we’ve been able to make a positive impact on people and the planet. We achieved some amazing things in 2022, from rehoming almost 16 million books to officially becoming carbon neutral. We couldn’t do any of this without you so check out our impact report to find out about all of the amazing things you’ve helped us to achieve over the last year!

7 Reasons to Buy Used Books

As a used bookseller, we really do find that buying used books is the way to go. Our seven reasons below are a great starting point for getting to know World of Books and realising how great a used book can be.
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The Journey of a Book

At World of Books, we were founded on an ethos to do good, help charities, and protect the planet; it’s what we’re all about. Because of this, the journey of a book can be a wild one! We get our books from a number of sources. Last year, we generated £3 million in value for our charity partners, who provide us with many of our books. We use book banks and our customers can even trade-in their used books using our Ziffit service. This is the circular economy in action.


Wob, the Wonderful World of Books and more!

If you’re looking for great value second hand books, then World of Books is the place for you.

As you may already know, we aren’t like other online book stores. For starters, we don’t believe that books should only be read once, or have a single owner. Literature should endure and be continually recycled, which is why we help millions of used books find new homes every year.

World of Books also buys directly from charities, taking the titles they don’t want or haven’t got space for. So as well as preventing the destruction of perfectly good books, our customers are helping to support good causes too.

Cheap Books, Fantastic Choice

Browse through hundreds of thousands of titles today. Whether you’re a fan of crime fiction or celebrity autobiographies, classic literature or modern best sellers, we have it all. Better still, our books are available at the cheapest prices and come with free delivery in the UK too.

So booklovers, academics and casual readers, rejoice! There’s something for everyone at World of Books, and it won’t cost the earth.