from two feet away.
the market disagrees.
You cannot tell by looking.
Scan it. Buy, or reject with a cash offer, in seconds.
RakeScan reads any one of them.
every verdict explained
We are not guessing what sells. We have been paying for the answer for six years, and RakeScan is that ledger, pointed at your shelf.
Run a book through the real engine.
Same verdict engine as the app, on default triggers. In the app your own floors and rank tiers take over, on live data.
Every book sale near you. On one map.
Library calendars, garage-sale permits, estate firms, surplus auctions: gathered from the public record, with dates, distance and a reminder the night before.
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Type your ZIP · dated public library sales within 100 miles
Live, from the public record. Library sales only here; the app adds estate, permit, surplus and thrift.
| Finding sales today | With Sale Finder |
|---|---|
| booksalefinder + estatesales.net + two Facebook groups + memory | One screen |
| ~20 minutes, Saturday morning, half of it stale | 10 seconds, dated from the public record |
| You mean to put it in the calendar. You don't. | Reminder fires the night before |
| You build the route in your head, by what's closest | Ordered by what's worth the drive |
The reject pile is worth money here.
Every reject is checked against BookToCash, 100,000+ books bought since 2019. When there is an offer, it is on the screen with the verdict.
1 · Scanned
REJECT
No for the bag, but the offer line lights up.
2 · Offered
$30.00
BookToCash pays. One tap adds it to your sell cart, free shipping label.
3 · Shipped
ONE BOX
Ship the cart when it's full. Cash lands after check-in.
Built for eight hours in the aisle.
Every scan lands on the phone first. Lose the signal in the basement and keep scanning; the queue resolves into verdicts the moment it comes back.
Free to scan. Pro for the power tools.
Pro
$34/mo
One seat, every tool: Sale Finder, Shelf Scan, bulk checks, helper seats.
Start 30-day Pro trial no cardSecond scanner
$4.95/mo
A partner or an employee working the other aisle. Same account, same triggers.
Pro add-oniPhone: Pro isn't sold through the App Store yet, so on iPhone every tool is included for now. Pro applies on Android and the web.
Private by default: no ads, no advertising SDKs, your scan history is visible only to you. Side-by-side with the incumbents: vs ScoutIQ · vs Scoutly.
The person behind the verdict.
Sezai C.founder, BookToCash
buying books from people since 2019
I'm Sezai. I run BookToCash. Since 2019 we have bought more than 100,000 used books, every one priced by a desk that had to be right, because we were the ones paying. RakeScan is that desk, pointed at your shelf. Support is a human, at [email protected]; the answer comes from the desk, not a script.
Straight answers.
What happens with no signal in a church basement?
Every scan lands in the on-device ledger first. Keep scanning; the queue resolves into verdicts when the signal comes back. The verdict itself needs the live market — we would rather tell you that than sell you a stale answer.
Why trust a BUY verdict from the company that wants my rejects?
Order of operations: the verdict is computed from your triggers before any offer is looked up, the offer amount never enters a trigger, and on a REJECT the full ladder stays open so you can overrule us and buy it anyway. The offer trace above shows it.
Where does the market data come from?
Amazon, Keepa, eBay sold and BookScouter, merged on our side. The phone asks one question and gets one answer: one round trip instead of four.
Do I have to connect my Amazon seller account?
Yes, for the gating answer — "can you list this?" is account-specific. The connection is read-only: it reads listing restrictions and your seller ID, nothing else. It cannot create, edit or delete a listing, and it never sees orders, buyers or payouts. You can revoke it in Seller Central at any time.
What does it cost?
Scanning, verdicts and selling your rejects are free. Pro is $34 a month for one seat — Sale Finder, Shelf Scan, bulk checks — by card through Stripe after a 30-day free trial. A second scanner is $4.95 a month.
Can I bring my triggers over from another scanner?
Not automatically today — you rebuild your floors and rank tiers once, in your own language, and they are yours after that. We would rather say so than let you find out on day one.
Who are you?
BookToCash — we have been buying used books from people since 2019, 100,000+ of them. The verdict engine is the buying desk we already ran, pointed at your shelf. More in the vs ScoutIQ and vs Scoutly field guides.
Get RakeScan.
We read the market; you work the shelves. Free to scan on Android and iPhone; Pro for the power tools.
No ads, no card to scan. Sell your rejects to BookToCash with or without a plan.