Alternatives and competitors
Sites like ThriftBooks
The 20 closest online used bookstore alternatives to ThriftBooks, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 11 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to ThriftBooks? The closest matches are AbeBooks, Bookshop.org and Barnes & Noble. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
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- Vector
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- Query
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01 · Entity
About ThriftBooks
ThriftBooks thriftbooks.com
Wikidata: US-based online used bookseller
Summary by Claude
Online retailer selling used and new books at discounted prices, along with used DVDs, Blu-rays, CDs and other media, with a loyalty rewards program.
- Who it’s for
- Book buyers and readers in the US
- Business model
- Retail sales
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to ThriftBooks’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to ThriftBooks
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to ThriftBooks, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read thriftbooks.com’s homepage (HTTP 406), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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AbeBooks | Shop for Books, Art & Collectibles
Discover a wonderful selection of rare and collectible books, used copies, signed and first editions and more, from booksellers located around the world.
Very close cos 0.930 - 02
book e-commerce website
Very close cos 0.921 - 03
Verifying your connection...
American book retailer
Very close cos 0.914 - 04
Error Page | eBay
American multinational internet corporation that manages eBay.com
Very close cos 0.911 - 05
Wayfair.com - Online Home Store for Furniture, Decor, Outdoors & More
Shop Wayfair for A Zillion Things Home across all styles and budgets. 5,000 brands of furniture, lighting, cookware, and more. Free Shipping on most items.
Very close cos 0.905 - 06
Shoes, Sneakers, Boots, & Clothing + FREE SHIPPING | Zappos.com
Fast, FREE shipping on just-landed sneakers, boots, heels & more from your favorite brands. Now that's a win.
Very close cos 0.904 - 07
Welcome to Open Library | Open Library
Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.
Very close cos 0.902 - 08
Challenged | Kobo.com
Canadian subsidiary of Japanese e-commerce conglomerate Rakuten
Very close cos 0.899 - 09
WebstaurantStore: Commercial Restaurant Supplies
Shop 420k+ commercial products for businesses, food service, & restaurants. Get the best bulk & wholesale pricing on popular brands at WebstaurantStore!
Very close cos 0.898 - 10
Client Challenge
American online music distributor
Very close cos 0.898 - 11
Sicherheits-Check
German book retail company
Very close cos 0.896 - 12
fnac.com
French multinational electronics store chain
Very close cos 0.897 - 13
American multinational technology company
Very close cos 0.897 - 14
Japanese company headquartered in Aoi Ward, Shizuoka City; operator of a chain of general hobby shops and bookstores
Close cos 0.893 - 15
Polish retail company
Very close cos 0.896 - 16
Target : Expect More. Pay Less.
Shop Target online and in-store for everything from groceries and essentials to clothing and electronics. Choose contactless pickup or delivery today.
Very close cos 0.895 - 17
Best Buy International: Select your Country - Best Buy
Shop online at Best Buy in your country and language of choice. Best Buy provides online shopping in a number of countries and languages.
Close cos 0.893 - 18
American online electronics retailer
Close cos 0.892 - 19
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platform for building online shops
Close cos 0.894 - 20
etsy.com
American e-commerce company
Close cos 0.894
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to thriftbooks.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones ThriftBooks uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What ThriftBooks is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Marketing automation
- HubSpot TXT v=spf1 include:spf.em.secureserver.net mx ip4:64.94.116.72 ip4:162.43…
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-ber1080039-BER, cache-ber1080054-BER
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX thriftbooks-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
- DNS hosting
- GoDaddy DNS NS ns12.domaincontrol.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=B4fkRprSQNJS6iyP
- Atlassian TXT v=spf1 include:spf.em.secureserver.net mx ip4:64.94.116.72 ip4:162.43…
- GlobalSign TXT globalsign-domain-verification=1uVDoDyUU_CTfAXdT_LXzhTw7HOTbB4OR8FrRC…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=zWPYxiwLlS2Cm80MtEIIxzj1bqbMb2OkSVVqBgXmkbY
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=b2s6ya38cw0unielu7t632ewqi3ff3
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-opTHTPiHpGM6Pdd6r2lwCIWR
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_yKh4lBn2Tq-9n7y2ir3amA
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what ThriftBooks adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Microsoft 365 13/20
- Atlassian 11/20
- Apple Business 11/20
- Cloudflare · not on thriftbooks.com 9/20
- Stripe · not on thriftbooks.com 8/20
- Meta Business Suite 8/20
- GlobalSign 7/20
- Proofpoint · not on thriftbooks.com 7/20
- Akamai Edge DNS · not on thriftbooks.com 6/20
- DocuSign · not on thriftbooks.com 6/20
- Amazon SES · not on thriftbooks.com 5/20
- Adobe · not on thriftbooks.com 5/20
- OpenAI 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on thriftbooks.com 4/20
- Google Workspace · not on thriftbooks.com 4/20