A Quick Guide to Packing Books

How to pack books is not a question we often get asked in the removals industry, as the majority or us will simply turn and stack and shift books into boxes together and try to get as many into a single box as physically possible.

But, if you do truly love your books and want them to arrive at your new home in a nice condition, you should consider taking a little more care and consideration when boxing up these little treasures.

Books, represent a massive cliche in the removals industry. For a removals man, Boxed books can be heavy and cumbersome to carry and often leave the removal man exhausted and asking themselves:

“Have they not heard of a Kindle?”

However, for a true Bibliophile, The beauty of a book comes in its ownership; The look, the feel, the presence in your possessions and the fact that a real book actually represents something. Pride of ownership, something that just can’t be represented by a “Kindle”.

When it comes to packing books, remember the following points;

Small, Strong boxes; make sure you look for double corrugated boxes. These are strong and stack able and hold their shape. Also, keep the size as company as possible as to not overfill them.

Load Large to small; when you start to fill the box, put your largest books at the bottom of the box and fill the top with smaller books, this will help to spread the weight and also protect the covers.

Pack the Books flat; when you pack books, make sure to lay them flat inside the box, whilst it’s tempting to stack them s they were on the shelf, this will result in the spine and covers getting damage which can be avoided by laying them flat.

Fill the gaps; once you have stacked the books flat from the bottom of the box to the top, don’t get carried away. Don’t think that you can fit more books around the edges, instead fill these empty gaps with scrunch paper. It will help keep the weight of the box manageable and increasing the protection on the covers and edges.