Secondhand and Antiquarian Bookshops in the UK and Republic of Ireland
Guidelines for posting, Privacy and Data Protection
This site aims to list every secondhand and antiquarian bookshop in the
UK and Republic of Ireland. This includes anywhere where books for sale
can be seen on the premises, at regular times or by appointment.
User contributions
Anyone can contribute - no registration or login is needed. All
contributions are moderated before publication, which should normally
take no more than a day or two.
When contributing for the first time, please choose a username - which
might be your real name or a nickname. On subsequent occasions please
remember and use your chosen username.
All contributions are the user's own opinion and not that of
thebookguide.
Adding a bookshop
Each bookshop listing page has an Add a bookshop link near the top.
We rely on shop-owners and the book-buying public to update the
listings with new shops. (Notifying closures, change of address or
opening hours is covered below.)
What belongs here: Any business with a significant stock of
secondhand or collectable books, that welcomes visitors at advertised
times or by prior appointment. This includes permanent units in antique
markets, private bookrooms and weekly market stalls. Stock can be small if good,
but books should be the only or main holdings. Thus a charity bookshop should be
included, but a general charity shop should not, unless it has a room's-worth of books.
Information you provide for a new bookshop should be demonstrable
fact. An impartial description of the shop's size and type of stock is
also welcome, plus important facts such as access details. We will
try to get the shop itself to review these, and the published
description will be our own selection.
Adding a comment or a change to shop details
Each bookshop listing has an Add a comment link under the shop
details.
We welcome reviews and comments on listed shops. These should be
demonstrable fact or fair comment. Abusive, gratuitously offensive or
potentially libellous content will not be published.
The comment field is also used to inform us of changes to basic shop
data - name, address, opening hours etc. We will identify such data
and apply it to the shop listing, possibly instead of publishing it as
a comment, unless it also contains a review. If by separating data and comment
we have misrepresented you, please say so in a further comment, marked
'not for publication' and we'll try to correct it. To avoid confusion, it's a
good idea to submit shop details and review text as separate form submissions.
Owners and staff are welcome to contribute to their shop's details and
comments, but please choose a username that makes this clear, such as
'John Smith (The Bookshop)', or 'John (owner)'.
When submitting a bookshop or comment, please supply your e-mail
address (never published or used for any other purpose) if we may
conceivably need to contact you about it.
Privacy and Data Protection
Anyone who submits data through the 'Add a bookshop' and 'Add a
comment' forms is held to have given permission for its publication on
the site, subject to our minor amendments as described above.
Submitted form data is stored in a password-protected area to which
only the site administrators and our data processor Bytemark
Hosting have access. These may include your IP address (never
published), to help identify contributors in cases of dispute and for
other important reasons. We also allow you to supply your e-mail
address (never published), which we will use if we need to be in
touch about the submission. Also, your username may help identify you
(e.g. if you use your real name). No other personal data is held
about you. We do not share any unpublished data with third parties.
We do not use cookies or trackers on our site, nor embed links
that do. External links on the site (such as to shops' websites and
social media accounts) may do so.
The Data Controller is Adrian Hindle-Briscall who can be contacted by email or
webform.
