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Bent Corners Used Books
Bent Corners Used Books: Great prices, wide selection, friendly staff in Boise.
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Bent Corners Used Books: Great prices, wide selection, friendly staff in Boise.
Bent Corners Used Books is a Boise book store featuring a large, well-organized selection and affordable prices. Located at 3343 N Five Mile Rd, it’s praised for friendly staff and trade discounts for customers who turn in books. Reviews note a policy against most religious non-fiction and reveal mixed experiences with trade value.
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Browse a wide variety of pre-owned books in excellent condition at budget-friendly prices.
Trade in your used books for store points that provide discounts on future purchases.
Find books easily with organized shelves by genre, including fiction, non-fiction, and more.
Purchase recent releases and collectibles in near-perfect condition at significant savings.
Engage with a friendly, community-oriented store that values reader connections and feedback.
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Overall rating
Melvado
The prices are worth the visit alone. They were very friendly and answered all my questions... great selection and everything is very well organized!
Samantha Smith
Great local bookstore, with a pretty large selection and good variety of genres. The prices were awesome in my opinion! I went in to see if they had a newer book (released end of 2024), and they did have a copy in like-new condition for a third of what it would have cost anywhere else. I ended up getting a second book also at a great price and in excellent condition. Definitely plan to return for future book wants/needs!
Rene Maurer
Never was much of a used bookstore person but I really like this place. The guy who runs it is cool and I always know where to go for my books. Plus you always get discounts for turning in books
Hayden Cassinelli
The policy on the front store states that the store does not accept "most religious non-fiction". Now, you're free to have this policy and that's fine for a private business to have. That being said, I'm also free to give a low review because it had nothing I wanted and I have no need to ever go back.
Jenni Holden Bryan
BEWARE-- FRAUD. This place does NOT buy books and will NOT EVEN give you STORE CREDIT in trade. I brought in five boxes of what the owner even admitted was "a bunch of really good books" including some valuable collectibles, he asked if I wanted to donate the books "he couldn't sell", and I said sure. I have done this at other places in the past. I thought I would be given a cash offer or at least a trade offer, so when I got a call of an offer for "$166" I accepted. Little did I know that what I was getting was 166 points. When I said "okay, what can I buy with my 166 points, I was told that ALL YOU ACTUALLY GET IN "TRADE" IS A DISCOUNT. What I actually got was 50% off paperbacks. When I asked why I wasn't told when I brought the books in to TRADE that I would receive nothing more than a DISCOUNT for them, he gaslit me, telling me that "nobody buys books. You can't make any money that way" (yet somehow Half Priced Books manages), blamed me for not asking about a "dollar amount" for trade, and literally started screaming at me. This man is a thief, and I will be filing a report with the BBB. I will certainly never support this book store again as a buyer or seller. Absolutely shameful.
