Evergreen Books

I’m of the opinion that you can never have too many good second hand bookstores in your repertoire.
This one is so spacious and well designed you would be hard pressed to deduce that you were actually in a secondhand store, there are no dusty crammed shelves, that look like their about to collapse in on themselves in sight.
It makes finding certain genres of books super easy as well, having everything so well set up.
They also have nice little prints available for sale in the store as well, one which I bought for my office at home.
Lastly I would just like to apologise to the cute sales assistant who I may have flashed, while going for a sneaky rearrange of my underwear behind a row of shelves that seemed to be private, UNTIL I saw the camera perched right above me. I hope I didn’t scar you for life.

Evergreen has a great reputation in Auckland as a solid destination for second hand books.
I always have a slight tinge of sadness that quite a lot of space seems to be taken up with popular fiction, and I really think the New Zealand fiction range needs work, but overall, it’s a excellent place to spend more than you intended.
The sci-​fi range is particularly good and all the books are in really good condition, which makes a welcome change from finding a long-​sought-​after favourite only to discover that it’s falling to pieces in your hands. Mucho disappointo.
I’ve also had the welcome surprise at the till of having my order rounded down a couple of dollars, which is a really lovely way to reward customers who are buying a bundle.
Overall, I would always come here for a browse when I’m in Devonport, but it’s not really a go-​to place if you have something specific in mind — in that case, I would head to Hard to Find books first.

For a large second-​hand bookshop, Evergreen Bookshop is just as organised and easy to navigate as a new bookshop, except with the benefit of cheaper prices. Although not cheap-​cheap, Evergreen Bookshop has a great range of second-​hand, out of print and rare books on offer, all varying from old to relatively new and all in great readable condition. The atmosphere upstairs is well-​lit with a number of chairs available, so it is dangerously easy to spend a lot longer than you initially planned exploring all of the different book sections. The owner is friendly and talkative, and if you buy multiple books then I think the prices are negotiable (he rounded both mine and my mothers piles to 50 each). Decorating the walls are stunning old prints and lithographs, which are all also for sale for around 40 – 100 dollars.

One of the bookstores of the old kind, Evergreen books stocks out of print, second hand and rare books. Have a sift through here on a day when you can spare some time as its huge and there’s so much to look through! Not in a dusty old crammed bookshop kind of way but in a tidy organised library kind of way. you’ll go in looking for one book and get sidetracked by a million others. Every time I go there I remember why I love to read. The staff are really helpful too.