About

One search, booksellers everywhere

Near Fine finds books. Type a title, an author or an ISBN, with anything else you’re after, such as a first edition or a price cap, and it asks booksellers around the world at once. You see every offer that can reach you, with shipping, in your currency and with sellers near you first.

Where it looks

• AbeBooks, and eBay on your country’s site plus the big ones that ship to you.
• World of Books, Rarewaves, ThriftBooks, Casa del Libro and Librairie Mollat, wherever they ship. World of Books has stores in the UK, the US and Australia.
• Hugendubel in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Booklooker’s sellers across Europe, Ex Libris in Switzerland and Leslibraires.fr in France.
• Boekwinkeltjes.nl, Standaard Boekhandel and Managementboek in the Netherlands and Belgium, Librairie Club in Belgium, Dubray Books and Books Upstairs from Ireland, and Malliaris from Greece.
• Indigo in Canada, Book Outlet in the US and Canada, Book Grocer from Australia, Whitcoulls in New Zealand, Lets Buy Books’ book sets in the UK, Paper Cavalier’s new and used copies from London, and Daunt Books, Chapters Bookstore and Harry Hartog wherever they ship.
• Bokkilden from Norway, Bog & idé in Denmark, Suomalainen Kirjakauppa and Booky.fi from Finland, and Nexus in Iceland.
• Bookbot’s used books from Prague, Świat Książki and Czytam.pl from Poland and Matras within it, and Luxor and Kosmas in Czechia and Slovakia.
• IBS, Libraccio and Libreria Universitaria from Italy, Agapea in Spain and Portugal, Label Emmaüs and Livrenpoche from France, and Buybook from Bosnia.
• Gandhi from Mexico and Porrúa within it, Kel Ediciones and SBS Librerías in Argentina, Livraria da Travessa, Martins Fontes, Americanas and Livrarias Curitiba in Brazil, Librería de la U in Colombia, Ibero Librerías in Peru, Contrapunto in Chile and Tecni-Ciencia in Venezuela.
• Kinokuniya from Japan and its stores in the US and Taiwan, Maruzen Junkudo and BookOff in Japan, and Kyobo and Yes24 from Korea.
• Popular in Singapore, MPH and BookXcess from Malaysia, National Book Store in the Philippines, Bookazine from Hong Kong, Atlantic Books and Kitabay from India, and Liberty Books from Pakistan.
• Exclusive Books, Readers Warehouse, Wordsworth Books and Graffiti Books from South Africa.
• Apple Books ebooks and audiobooks, from the store for your country, and the ebooks and audiobook downloads of the shops above that sell them in your country.
• Where a shop doesn’t publish its shipping costs, we say so rather than guess.
• Amazon doesn’t share prices with us yet, so every search links to it instead.

How results are ranked

Best match puts the books closest to your search first. Best deal ranks by what you’ll pay including shipping, giving an edge to new copies and to sellers in your own country, which tend to arrive sooner, and counting against sellers abroad that don’t publish their shipping. An ISBN search, or one where most results are the same edition, switches to Best deal on its own.

Alerts

Can’t find it yet? Sign in and choose Alert me on a search, and Near Fine keeps looking. You get one email when a new listing turns up that has everything you asked for, and you can tell it to keep looking from there. Five alerts are free, checked once a day. Plans watch more books, more often.

The name

“Near fine” is the booksellers’ grade for a copy just short of perfect. Near Fine was called Part.ly until October 2026, and part.ly still works.

How Near Fine makes money

Some of the links are affiliate links. If you buy through one, the bookseller pays Near Fine a small commission. It costs you nothing extra and has no bearing on how results are ranked.

The rest comes from paid plans for alerts, which keep more alerts going and check them more often. Searching stays free.

For AI assistants

Claude, ChatGPT and other assistants can search Near Fine through its MCP server: AI assistants shows how to connect one. Developers will find the MCP server and the JSON API in the docs.

Who runs it

Near Fine is run by Line of Flight B.V., Raphaëlstraat 25-2, 1077 PN Amsterdam, the Netherlands, registered with the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (KvK) under number 90477014. Questions, or a bookseller we should add? Write to [email protected].