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.

Over 8,000 people use Libribot to make sure they’re the first to know when items they’re interested in hit the market. Most of those users have a small number of wants saved, but we’ve also got a growing number who have a thousand or more active wants.

Managing a wants list this long can get a little tricky, and it’s fair to say that our website’s user interface wasn’t designed with thousands of wants in mind. To make things easier, we’re more than happy to import wants lists for you manually. All you need to do is email us at support@vialibri.net and send us an Excel or CSV file containing the details of your wants. We can also give you a template file to fill in if that makes things easier. As it’s a manual process it’s not an instant import, but we aim to handle them within a couple of working days.

This import is a free service that we offer, and you can use no matter whether you’ve got a free or paid viaLibri account. For free viaLibri accounts Libribot will search one of your wants each day cycling through your wants over time. On a paid account, Libribot will check 100 or more of your wants every day.

So, if you’ve got a long list of items you’re looking for, why not get in touch with us and have Libribot do the work for you?

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Mark your calendars for the next viaLibri Virtual Showcase: Rare books, prints, maps and ephemera.

Opens Wednesday 30th September, 3 p.m. BST through Monday 5th October, 10 p.m. BST.

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 join and look forward to welcoming you when the Showcase opens on Wednesday, 30th September.

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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 in to actually use it.

Blocking booksellers

Next to every bookseller’s name in your search results you’ll see an “Exclude” link. Click it and that bookseller is added to your personal excluded booksellers list. From then on, none of their listings will show up in any of your future searches.

This exclusion list is used in normal search results and on Libribot, ensuring that you won’t see results from that seller anywhere on viaLibri. We’re also often able to spot when the same bookseller is listing under more than one name across different sites. When that happens, blocking them once will exclude all of their known aliases too, not just the one you clicked.

Managing your excluded booksellers list

Once you’ve blocked a seller, their name is added to a list you can review and edit at any time. You’ll find it on your Search Preferences page, which is in the account menu shown in the top right of every page. Changed your mind about someone? Just remove them from the list and their listings will start appearing in your results again.