Mark your calendars for the next viaLibri Virtual Showcase: Rare books, prints, maps and ephemera. Opens Wednesday 2nd December, 3 p.m. GMT through Monday 7th December, 10 p.m. GMT. Visit this online fair where a selection of international sellers will be offering carefully chosen items across a wide range of subjects. We hope you will …

As you might have noticed, viaLibri was offline for ten hours yesterday. In all the time I’ve been working for viaLibri I can’t remember a time when we’ve had to take the website down for that long. We weren’t alone. As widely reported in the news, a vulnerability had been discovered in PHP, the programming …

One of the best features of viaLibri is our saved search service, Libribot. Using this feature you can save sets of search criteria (which we call “wants”). Libribot will then check your wants against our search index several times a day and send you an email if any new matching items have come on sale. …

The ability to block particular sellers is a feature that our users regularly ask for. In fact, it’s been a feature of viaLibri for years, but it was only displayed if you were logged in to your viaLibri account. We’ve recently tweaked it so it’ll show for all users. However, you’ll still need to log …

We are pleased to announce that we have now added eBay Spain to the list of sites that are searched by viaLibri. Fixed-price listings and auctions from eBay Spain will be included when you search via our website or use our saved search service, Libribot. If you add the details of an item to your …

One of the parts of viaLibri I’m proudest of is our Harvest service, which allows any dealer in rare and antiquarian books to add their own website to viaLibri’s search database. It’s the part of viaLibri where what we believe in and what we’re good at come together: we think independent booksellers deserve to be found …