Bookaholics Anonymous started as a platform to do bookcrossing. Bookcrossing is the act of leaving books in random public places for people to take a book to read, and to keep passing on the books to others. This way, the books get more use out of them and sharing is simply caring.

Then we started adopting and rescuing more used books that would be sent to recycle otherwise. It’s just not cool to waste them like this. At the same time, some of our followers lamented that they could never get their hands on books that we leave in places, and asked if we could sell them affordably instead. So that is what we did - we started an online second-hand bookshop.

We have also stopped leaving books in public places when the pandemic was not looking good as we stayed in more than going out there. Then, an idea came along - instead of limiting so many people to off-chance places to find the books, we could also give books for free on our website. Hence, we have a Free Books corner on the website and anyone can get them without any condition of purchase.

I believe we are a very different kind of bookshop and for as long as we exist, we will continue to be a bookshop of good reads, friendly service, and meaningful deeds.

We hope for your continuous support of our second-hand books, and to join us in giving back to society through your book purchases with us, as a percentage of our book sales proceeds are shared with an international charitable organisation.

We hope to contribute in some ways towards our communities by paying it forward, and thank you for being a part of it too!