how many books in a box?

by Jeremy Gavins
7th May 2018

I got told that my books will be delivered in boxes. I will be charged on the number of boxes but I can't find out how many boxes I will need. I suppose that it may depend on the size of book, mine is a 220 page B-format. For 500 hundred books, how many boxes?

I have googled this but got nowhere.

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Got my answer today when I picked up a box of 30. Sold 10 of them on my way home.

good times are a coming

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Jeremy Gavins
18/05/2018

That seems a lot and might be too heavy per box. I used to get 25 number approx 400 page 7" x 9" paperbacks in one box, plus a bit of packing, and that was weighty enough. I don't know if there's a maximum package weight guideline, though.

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10/05/2018

Thanks for the info. According to my mathematics that means something in the region of 75 books. So for 500 books that's about 6 or 7 boxes.

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