Looking for a new home for your textbooks, law books, medical books, teacher training material, Encyclopedias and/or National Geographic magazines? Here is a list of places to share your books (scroll down for a printable version)
Donate the books to schools in developing counties (mail them book rate)
1. Books For Africa
253 East 4th Street
Suite 200
St. Paul, MN 55101
booksforafrica.org
2. Adventist Development and Relief Agency
Director of Acquisitions
12501 Old Columbia Pike
Silver Spring, MD 20904
Phone: 301-680-6368
3. Book Project of the World Bank 1818 H Street NW, Room JB3 – 105
Washington DC 20433
Phone: 202-473 8960
4. Books for Children of the World 6701 North Bryant
Oklahoma City, OK 73121
Phone: 405-721-7417
Donate the books to prisoners
5. Prison Book Program
c/o Lucy Parsons Bookstore
1306 Hancock Street, Suite 100
Quincy, MA 02169 617-423-3298 info@prisonbookprogram.org
6. Books Through Bars
4722 Baltimore Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19143
215-727-8170
donations@booksthroughbars.org
Give Books Away
7. Freecycle.org
8. Community Theater to be used as set props
9. In a curbside box labeled FREE
10. Salvation Army www.salvationarmyusa.org/
11. Goodwill www.goodwill.org/
12. Better World Books
http://www.betterworldbooks.com/Info-Books-We-Accept-m-11.aspx
Bonus Ideas
13. Donate them to a neighbor’s yard sale
14.Check with your local recycling center, many have a free book table
Thinking to sell the book?
Check out what the book recently sold for at
http://pages.ebay.com/completedlistings/
Sell back textbooks
15. http://www.bigwords.com/book/easy-buyback
16. http://www.betterworldbooks.com/buyback.aspx
17. Amazon.com may give you account credit AND pay for shipping. Log onto Amazon.com and type in the ISBN Number to find out.
Trade the Books
18. BookMooch
19. Green Textbooks Recycling
20. Title Trader
I hope you find this list useful. Please pass it along to three other people right so they can start to share their books too.
