Collection evaluations
We look at individual books, shelves, boxed collections, and entire libraries to help determine what deserves closer attention.
Preserve · Rehome
A regional home for books, collections, and printed history.
Kansas Book Depository helps individuals, families, estates, and organizations evaluate, sell, donate, and rehome books and printed material throughout Kansas and the Kansas City region.
Before you sort, move, donate, or discard a collection, call us. A short conversation—and a few photographs—can help us understand what you have and recommend the best next step.
By appointment in Overland Park. House calls available.
A safe place to begin
You do not need to be a book expert.
You may be standing in front of shelves, boxes, or a basement full of books, wondering what matters and where to start. You do not need a catalog, an inventory, or every title sorted.
Before you move, donate, or discard anything, call us.
Leave the books where they are until we talk.
We will meet with you at our office—or come to you. Together, we’ll look at what you have and point out material that deserves a closer look, explain what may have value, and help you understand the practical choices for selling, donating, preserving, or rehoming your books.
Not every book will be rare, and not every collection will have the same destination. We will be honest about what we see and respectful of what the books have meant to you or your family.
How we help
Thoughtful options for books in transition.
Estates and downsizing
We work with families, executors, and people facing a move or cleanout. We help establish priorities before books are separated or discarded.
House calls
There is no need to move a large collection before we have talked. For appropriate collections, we visit homes, offices, storage spaces, and estates and can help coordinate removal.
Purchase, donation, and rehoming
Depending on the material, we may discuss a purchase, accept selected books for rehoming, or suggest another practical destination.
Three simple steps
Getting started should be easy.
Contact us
Call, email, or send the short form. Tell us where the books are and roughly how many you have. If photographs are difficult, just call us.
Show us a few photographs.
Text or email an overall view of what you have—whether individual books, shelves, or boxes—plus a few closer photographs with readable titles. You do not need to photograph every book.
We’ll recommend the next step.
We may ask for another photograph, arrange an appointment, make a house call, discuss a purchase, or suggest another option.
Collection transitions
Leave the books where they are until we talk.
A collection can lose its context quickly when books are moved, separated, or discarded. Begin with the whole picture. We can help establish what deserves closer attention and what practical choices make sense.
See How Collection Evaluations WorkPrograms in development
Community book drives
We are developing focused collection programs that will create new opportunities to preserve and rehome meaningful books and printed material. Dates and participation details will be announced as each program takes shape.
Spring Book Rescue Drive
KC History Collection Day
Rare Book Drive
Connection to About Those Books
Looking for books to buy?
Kansas Book Depository is for people evaluating, selling, donating, or rehoming books and collections. About Those Books is our retail and online bookselling arm, connecting distinctive books with readers and collectors.
Shop About Those Books online or visit our booth in Aisle G at Glenwood Antique Mall, 9030 Metcalf Avenue in Overland Park. Book evaluations are handled through Kansas Book Depository by appointment.
Begin with us
Preserve and rehome what matters.
If you are responsible for books and are unsure where to begin, we can help you determine the right next step.