Small Box. Big Impact.
Hixville Book Box helps neighbors share stories, discover books, and keep reading visible in everyday life. A welcoming neighborhood Book Box makes it easy for readers of all ages to find something new close to home.
By placing books where people already live, walk, and gather, Hixville Book Box encourages spontaneous discovery and a stronger connection to reading. Readers can visit a nearby box, exchange books, and follow traveling books as they move from one person to the next.
Every book deserves another reader. Hixville Book Box brings together book boxes, readers, box owners, and authors in one connected community—helping books move, stories travel, and reading stay accessible, personal, and fun.
Books on the move
Find a book box.
Discover a story.
Anyone can find and visit a Hixville Book Box. Create a free account when you want to scan traveling books, follow their journeys, or discover Hixville authors.
Find a Book BoxNo account needed to find a Book Box.
Buy an Official HBB Sign and Get 25 Tracking Stickers FREE
Start your own Hixville Book Box with an official numbered sign, then use your 25 free HBB-BK tracking stickers to send books on their journeys and follow them from reader to reader.
Help Hixville Grow
Would you host a Hixville Book Box?
We’re looking for homeowners, businesses, libraries, schools, churches and community groups interested in bringing a Hixville Book Box to their neighborhood.
Explore Hixville
More ways to follow the journey
These features stay visible so visitors can see what Hixville offers. Clicking one will ask them to create a free account or sign in first.
Free Hixville Account
Do more with every book
A regular Hixville account is free. It gives readers and Book Box owners one place to keep their Hixville activity together.
Your free account includes:
- ✓ Scan HBB-BK traveling books
- ✓ Follow books and their journeys
- ✓ Find and follow Hixville authors
- ✓ Follow favorite Hixville Book Boxes
- ✓ Manage your registered HBB-BK books
- ✓ Keep your followed books, boxes, and authors together
- ✓ Register an official Hixville Book Box
For Authors
Author Subscription
Start an Author Subscription without creating a separate free account first. Your regular Hixville Book Box account is included automatically as part of the Author Subscription signup. Choose Monthly at $19.99 for the first payment and $5.99/month after that, or Annual at $89.99 for the first year and $59.99/year after that.
Start a Hixville Book Box
Want your own official Hixville Book Box?
Official Hixville Book Boxes use a purchased numbered HBB sign. Each official sign comes with its permanent HBB number and a private activation code used to register the Book Box to its owner.
Browse and compare official Hixville signs without signing in. Create a free account only when you are ready to purchase, so your numbered sign and order are linked to you.
A free Hixville account does not include an HBB sign. The official numbered sign is a separate purchased product.
Read our step-by-step guideOfficial HBB sign purchase
Browse the Shop
Browse signs, photos, prices, and options without an account.
Sign In or Create a Free Account
Required before payment so the order belongs to the correct customer.
Pay through Stripe
Stripe securely handles the payment, shipping address and tax calculation.
HBB Number Assigned
After successful payment, the system creates and assigns a unique permanent HBB number to the order.
Register After Delivery
Use the HBB number and private activation code supplied with the sign to register the Book Box.