[Tsundoku]

No secondhand/charity shops in the region?

[HoosierDaddy]

Goodwill and Salvation Army will except drop offs at their collection sites. Maybe a library will take them as well.

This post has been edited by HoosierDaddy: Today, 01:38 PM

[QuickTidal]

JPK, on 26 November 2024 - 04:05 AM, said:

Briar King, on 26 November 2024 - 03:51 AM, said:

And here is me debating on throwing away those Feist I own as the computer room is slowly becoming my son’s den and room is being made. Way too many bins of books with not enough cases to put them on. The Expanse books are likely going in the trash soon to.

Don't you have somewhere you can donate them to?

Wanna hear something funny? In preparation for the move I went through and purged a bunch of my books that I knew I'd never read again and didn't want to keep (probably 150?) and then I went to figure out where to donate them. Now, I live in like the most populous city in the country, so you'd figure this would be easy right?

Salvation Army: I called, and the guy said that I could bring them, but that 90% of the books they receive go right into the dumpster.

Toronto Public Library: Wont accept used books (a statement which baffled the fuck out of me).

Old Age Homes, Long Term Care homes: Said they'd didn't have the capacity to hold any influx of books.

Hospitals: Same as LTCH's, no capacity to house used books for patients.

BMV (our main used book store): They would not take 90% of what I had.

In fact the ONLY place that said they would take the books as a donation was Criminal Youth Detention Centres...so I called.....they said they didn't have the capacity to hold any more books.


So I ended up recycling them...which means they will almost certainly end up in a landfill in Malaysia and not at all recycled.


So now I'm completely at odds with donating books since trying to do so got me nowhere but frustrated.

EDIT: There is one of those little street/neighborhood tiny library boxes outside my kids school, and I had a bunch of MMPB copies of Tad Williams books I'd replaced in hardcover/large trade softcovers, so I put those in there as it seemed sacredligous to throw out Tad's books....but otherwise the rest went into a recycle dumpster in my condo.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: Today, 02:03 PM

[worry]

QuickTidal, on 26 November 2024 - 02:00 PM, said:

Toronto Public Library: Wont accept used books (a statement which baffled the fuck out of me).

That's wild. The library here doesn't accept used books for circulation, but they do have a bookshop for fundraising that certainly accepts them. I'd be surprised if a big city library didn't do that too.