--- title: "Buy from Libri and Ship Worldwide | Shipify" description: "Shop Libri from anywhere: get a free EU delivery address in Budapest, we receive your order, consolidate and forward it to your country." url: https://shipify.hu/shops/libri/ --- Shop from Europe # How to buy from Libri and ship worldwide Libri is one of Hungary’s largest bookshop chains, with an online store covering Hungarian-language fiction and non-fiction, children’s books, schoolbooks, foreign-language titles, stationery and games. ## Where Libri delivers — and what to do if that is not you Libri is built for the Hungarian market, with forint pricing and domestic delivery. Hungarian-language books have essentially no retail distribution abroad — the handful of importers that carry them charge several times the cover price. This is the clearest case on the list: there is no substitute, only a markup. Books also sit in Hungary’s lowest VAT band, so the shelf price is genuinely low. Retailers change their delivery countries without notice, so always confirm at checkout. If your own address is not accepted, a Budapest one will be — Hungary is inside the EU single market, and European shops ship there as a matter of course. ## How it works 1 ### Get your EU address Register for free and receive your personal Shipify address in Budapest, Hungary — a real street address inside the European Union. No monthly fee. 2 ### Order from Libri to that address Shop as any European customer would and enter your Shipify address at checkout. Your billing address can stay in your own country — the two do not need to match. 3 ### We receive and hold it Your parcel appears in your panel the moment it arrives, with a photo on request. Storage is free for the first 30 days, so you can let several orders collect. 4 ### Forward it home Pick your destination, combine parcels into one shipment if you like, and we ship door to door with full carrier tracking. ## Ordering from Libri: what actually matters Practical notes specific to this retailer and what it sells. ### Books are dense — weigh the order Forwarding is priced per kilo and paper is heavy. A dozen paperbacks can outweigh a winter coat. Run the numbers in the calculator before a large order, and consider splitting it across shipments. ### Order a whole school year at once If you are buying Hungarian schoolbooks for children abroad, ordering the full set in one go and forwarding it as a single shipment is far cheaper than title by title. ### Nothing here is restricted Books carry no customs or carrier restrictions in any of our destinations. Of everything we forward, this is the category with the fewest things that can go wrong. ## What people actually order from Libri Ranges you cannot buy through normal retail outside Europe — which is usually what makes the forwarding worth it in the first place. ### Hungarian-language fiction Contemporary and classic Hungarian literature, with no meaningful retail distribution outside the country. ### Schoolbooks and workbooks What diaspora families order most: the Hungarian curriculum set, bought once a year and shipped together. ### Children’s books Picture books and readers for children growing up abroad in Hungarian-speaking households. ### Cookbooks and reference Hungarian cookery and reference titles that exist in no other language. ## What forwarding costs Per-kg pricing from our Budapest warehouse, with a small minimum. Work out an exact figure in the [shipping calculator](/shipping-calculator/), or read how the EU address works on the [package forwarding from Europe](/package-forwarding-from-europe/) page. [🇺🇸 United States from $67 · 3–6 days](/package-forwarding-to-united-states/) [🇬🇧 United Kingdom from £49 · 3–6 days](/package-forwarding-to-united-kingdom/) [🇦🇺 Australia from €92 · 6–10 days](/package-forwarding-to-australia/) [🇩🇪 Germany from €33 · 2–4 days](/package-forwarding-to-germany/) [🇨🇭 Switzerland from CHF 49 · 3–6 days](/package-forwarding-to-switzerland/) [🇦🇪 Dubai from $63 · 3–6 days](/package-forwarding-to-dubai/) ## Frequently asked questions Can I buy from Libri if they don’t deliver to my country? + Yes — that is exactly what a forwarding address is for. You get a Budapest delivery address, Libri treats the order as a normal European delivery, and we forward the parcel on to you. Always confirm at checkout whether the storefront accepts your billing card; the delivery address is the part we solve. Can I pay Libri with a card issued outside Europe? + Usually yes. Most European storefronts accept international Visa and Mastercard, and your billing address does not have to match the delivery address. Some retailers additionally offer PayPal, which sidesteps the question entirely. How much does the forwarding cost? + It depends on destination and weight: a published per-kg rate with a small minimum, always shown in the panel before you confirm. Receiving a parcel costs a small intake fee. Consolidating several orders into one shipment is normally the largest saving available. Can I combine several Libri orders into one shipment? + Yes, and you should. Parcels wait at the Budapest warehouse free of charge for 30 days, and you choose which ones travel together — you then pay international shipping once instead of once per order. What about customs and VAT? + You pay the store’s normal European price including VAT when you buy. Forwarding to another EU country involves no customs at all. For destinations outside the EU the carrier handles clearance and contacts you if duties apply — note that the US ended its $800 de-minimis exemption in 2025, so duties can apply to low-value parcels there too. What if something needs to be returned? + Returns are the genuine weak point of forwarding: once a parcel has left the EU, sending it back is usually more expensive than the item is worth. Choose sizes and variants carefully before ordering — this is the one part a forwarder cannot make cheap. ## Other European shops The same Budapest address works at every one of them — and parcels from different shops can travel home together. 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