Anchor Box is your best bet (you can search for locations on yahoo yellow pages -- I think they have several roughly in your part of town). They have a huge selection, and I've found them to be a little cheaper than the moving stores like U-Haul (I used to move WAY too often in Houston, and each move involved about 30-40 boxes of books. ugh).

Wow... you're fast.

Ditto ... Anchor Box is the cheapest, most bountiful source known to man

Go to Half Price Books and see if they have any free boxes for you. When I worked there we gave them to people all the time. Also, if you go to a grocery store you can ask when they dump their boxes - it's usually early in the morning after deliveries - but the boxes will be free, too. :)

Alex: Eh, good timing. I selectively hit my blogroll along with early a.m. coffee. But not THAT early (I wasn't even awake at 5:55 am!). I think your server time offset needs to be adjusted. That is, if you wanna be on Texas time like the cool kids. :)

Andromina: Moving a library is a pain with free boxes, because they are always different sizes and never stack properly. Spending 25 bucks at Anchor Box makes moving so much nicer. :) And no, I don't own stock in the company or anything. They're just really good.

I'm going to be leaving shortly to get the boxes. I've done about everything I can without them (Except my one-man Hurricane Party, which I might forego). If I'd known that there'd be something so near by, I wouldn't have been so panicky and would have taken out one (or both!) of the ASAPs.

As for the dimensions of the boxes, I don't have a library to concern myself with. I got a lot of books, but most of them are going in the dumpster. They were textbooks, and a lot of friggin' good they did my desperately-unemployed self!

I'm disinclined to try to get free boxes. I figured that I could get them at Walmart last night and when I asked where I could buy boxes, they gave me some (it was 2 in the morning, they were unloading), which I thought was great until the cashier accused me of theft.

I left them there without incident.

Too late, but next time try the U-haul rental place.

Alex... You missed the deadline... Last weekend, my fiance and I hauled a *ton* (1 long-bed of a pickup truck full) of broken down cardboard boxes to the dumpster that had been sitting in my garage for over a year.

Actually, the boxes from Half Price Books are well, FOR books. :) And they are all the exact same size - which makes them great for stacking. When Mike and I got our house we had to combine BOTH our libraries - we have 10 full size book cases in our house - and even more books in storage!! :)