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Welcome

On this page, we would like to explain you how to use our website. Most pages were written in Dutch, yet we also offer books in English. Here you will find how to browse our books, place an offer or contact us for more information by telephone or mail. If you would like to have Google translate to whole website for you, then click here to go to the google translated homepage. Note that you'll not be able to add anything to your shopping cart!

Catalogue, contact and shopping cart

The most important pages for your visit will be our catalogue, contact page and the shopping cart. In the image below, these can be found by respectivily clicking [1], [2] or [3].

Guide for english visitors: main pages

  1. Catalogue: The catalogue page is shown in the image above. The most important features are:
    A) Fast search: Enter any search term and our engine will search our catalogue for matches in the title, description, author and publisher. Results are automatically sorted by relevance. Searching is not accent- or case sensitive.

    B) Advanced Search: In the advanced search tab 4 fields are available: Title, author, keywords and sorting method (relevance, title or author). Only books matching at least one term of every filled field will be shown. Keywords will search the catalogue for matches in title, description or author. Searching is not accent- or case sensitive.

    C) Catalogue Categories: Our books are also sorted in different categories. Click any to visit the books.
  2. Contact: Be welcome to ask us any questions or give feedback. Simply fill in your name, email and your question or feedback. Hit 'Verzenden' ('Send') and a green note will be shown if mailing was succesful. We will try to answer you as soon as possible. Please do not use foreign characters. All fields are required.
  3. Shopping cart: After a book has been added to your cart (see later), clicking on 'winkelwagen' [3] will display a page similar to the image below. On the left the books you added are show including their image, title, author and price. On the right you can see your total price and the order to place. You'll also find:
    A) Page back button: Simply click here to return to the page you arrived from.

    B) Delete button: If you added a wrong book to your cart, simply click this button to delete it.

    C) Total price: The total price of your order is also given. This does not include the shipping costs. Shipping options and costs will be send to you by mail after personal calculation.

    D) Place order: Clicking this button will allow you to fill in your details and place your order. The small block contains the following important information: "Payment is done by manual bank transfer. Paypal is available at a surplus of 3%. You'll receive an email containing all payment details."

Description on the use of our shopping cart for visitors

 Browsing our books

After searching our catalogue or choosing a category you will be presented the list of found books. The image below gives an example. The available functions are:

A) Pagination: If more books are available than there are shown (B), you'll be able to cycle through multiple pages.
B) Books per page: Choose how many books are displayed on each page (A). Default is 25.
C) Sorting: Sort the books by relevance (default), title or author.
D) Description: Below the title a description is shown if available. Sometimes the description is too long to be fully displayed. In that case click the title or image to able to read everything.
E) Information: All important information is listed (left to right,top to bottom): Authors, Publisher, Amount of pages, Year, Weight, Size, Price, and finally some important notes.
F) Image: Clicking the image or title will bring you to a new page containing only this book's information.
G) Add to cart: Add the book to your shopping cart (see earlier).
H) Ask a question: Any questions about this book? Click this button to send us a message with your question.

If no books were found after searching, you will be shown a search bar prompting you to try different keywords.

Description on how to browse our books for english visitors

Placing an order

After you clicked place order in the shopping cart (top: point 3.D) you will be given a form to fill out. The nine fields are these:

  1. Name
  2. Email
  3. Confirm Email
  4. Adress
  5. Zipcode
  6. City/province
  7. Language
  8. Country
  9. Comments

All of these fields are required except for the 'comments' field. Please do not use special characters if possible (expect for @). After hitting 'Verzenden' a new page will show if succesful. If errors were found, a red box will show where the problem is. You should soon receive a confirmation email. Make sure to check your spambox. If you haven't received confirmation after one hour, please contact us. We will soon contact you again with the available shipping options and prices to finish payment.

 

We would like to thank you for visiting our site and taking the time to read our guide. Hopefully you can find some interesting books. If you still have any questions, feel free to contact us.