I have boxes of high quality soft and hard cover books that I don't want to read again. The subject matter is a broad range from the esoteric to the mundane and everything in between -- literature, mystery, romance, best-sellers of every possible category, novelty/gift books, books with DVDs, psychology, philosophy, religion, self-help...the list is endless! I don't care if I get money for them. I just don't want to trash them as I am sure somebody somewhere would enjoy reading some of them. My local library doesn't take donated books. I'm not up for organizing a garage sale. I'm not going to put myself through the trouble of ebay and I have already gone through them and resold what I could through Barnes and Noble. It was a ridiculous exercise, a waste of my time, and for the money I got, I'd rather just give these books a good home.
Where or to whom have you donated books? It seems like a total waste for me to put them out with the trash. I would appreciate your ideas.
2007-04-09 07:51:51 · 26 answers · asked by margot 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
No more local library or Barnes and Noble suggestions. My local library doesn't want them (even though doesn't know what I have) and I've already sold what I could to B&N.
2007-04-09 09:53:53 · update #1
Have you tried donating them to the local Veteran's Hospital? I donated twenty thousand books several years ago that I had collected for over 35 years and they took them all. And while I am not sure, but you might check it out today, it might even be considered a tax write-off for donating to an institution funded by the gov.
2007-04-09 08:18:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would give romances and mysteries to your local hospitals and/or women's shelters. Shelters of any kind really. I know that those places often welcome book and magazine donations. Especially hospitals where people in the waiting rooms need something to read to take their minds off things. I was in the hospital waiting to see my grandmother and I would have loved to have found a romance novel on the table.
You might also check with libraries outside of your area. I know of several libraries that gladly take books and a few groups that organize donations to people who've lost everything in a storm or fire.
And how about sending books to soldiers?
2007-04-10 06:29:44 · answer #2 · answered by Alice Anderson 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Donate them to your local High School library or the local Goodwill or a favorite second hand book store.
2007-04-10 00:53:05 · answer #3 · answered by Barbiq 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Either donate them or, depending on your location, some small book stores exchange older books(in decent condition) to get used books. These stores are sometimes hard to find though. If all else fails, ebay them. Rule of thumb, never throw a book away.
2007-04-09 21:27:34 · answer #4 · answered by takeiteasy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you tried taking them to a Senior Center or a Nursing home my stepmom had a bunch of books & she took them to the nursing home & the patients there just loved them. Also the library, goodwill,thrift store. Good Luck
2007-04-10 04:41:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you tried your local thrift store? Most of them take donated books. You might also try local school or university libraries.
2007-04-09 08:00:40 · answer #6 · answered by Trisha 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have used bookstores in your town take them there and trade them for books you do want.
If you library won't take them, try donating them to a local high school [bugets are tight, they may want them for the school library]. A senior center or teen center may also be willing to take them, or the local jail.
2007-04-09 08:43:04 · answer #7 · answered by ajtheactress 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your looking to donate then I would take them to Nursing Homes and Rehabilatation Centers, Shelters. You could possibly get a good tax write off.
If your looking to make a $ or 2, go for ebay.
I know there are websites that do book exchanges too, you could exhange for other books.
2007-04-09 08:02:34 · answer #8 · answered by ~MB~ 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
when I lived in an house development, I left mine interior the Laundry Room for different laundry doers to study whilst they waited, that's very great for magazines. Any laundramat will in all probability take them. additionally, I went to BINGO for the 1st time final week (a charity BINGO) and that that they had a table set up for human beings to borrow and return used books for 1 / 4, monies going to the charity. i presumed that fluctuate into an spectacular concept. think of of places the place human beings have a tendency to might desire to attend around lots. wish that facilitates,
2016-10-21 10:59:08 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-04-10 04:09:44 · answer #10 · answered by jenlaw77 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋