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Phil B 01-31-2021 07:32 AM

I donate mine at Citizens First in Brownwood. They resell them cheap and ALL proceeds go to a local battered women house.

PaulinTV 01-31-2021 07:35 AM

Habitat for Humanity's Restore in Leesburg may be another donation option.

Skunky1 01-31-2021 07:49 AM

Take them to the Mark Twain library in Paradise in the villages

bilcon 01-31-2021 07:54 AM

Get a Kindle and you won't have to worry about getting rid of books. No problem giving them to local library. They are not picky about what they accept.

allsport 01-31-2021 07:56 AM

Citizen'a Banks accept donations, they have a big fund raiser where they sell them and I think the money goes to a Women's Shelter.

Viperguy 01-31-2021 08:02 AM

Hundreds on the "cloud" at Amazon and in my Kindle. No more on bookshelves at home. Saving space

MacScuba 01-31-2021 08:02 AM

Newer books sell well because people are buying them for “Zoom backgrounds” to place on shelves behind them in a Zoom meeting so as to appear well-read. Give the rest to the Salvation Army.

Dgodin 01-31-2021 08:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jblum315 (Post 1895066)
Running out of space

I have about.200 new books (mostly fiction but many nonfiction) that I want to sell or donate and I have no idea how to go about it.
Any advice would be welcome. Please send me a private message and I will respond

Try operation paperback (operationpaperback.org). The organization donates books to deployed troops and military treatment facilities.
Sign up on line.

NotGolfer 01-31-2021 08:15 AM

Is the bookstore (which has used) in Colony still open for taking books? I've taken some of mine there in the past but that was before the "lock down".

jmm2352 01-31-2021 08:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jblum315 (Post 1895066)
Running out of space

I have about.200 new books (mostly fiction but many nonfiction) that I want to sell or donate and I have no idea how to go about it.
Any advice would be welcome. Please send me a private message and I will respond

Marian markets has a stand in isle H. She sells her books for .50 cents each and said she takes donated books to help keep her cost down. All books she sells are .50 cents. It was awesome. Very nice lady!

spip911 01-31-2021 09:17 AM

Donate to a hospital

WindyCityzen 01-31-2021 09:24 AM

I had the same problem back home when I was downsizing to move here. I ended up taking them to Half PricedBooks ( a retail reseller). I got a whopping $50 for at least 200 books. I was disappointed but at least they were gone - I have no idea how many they actually resold vs other ends. There just isn’t a decent market for old books.

WindyCityzen 01-31-2021 09:27 AM

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Originally Posted by bilcon (Post 1895244)
Get a Kindle and you won't have to worry about getting rid of books. No problem giving them to local library. They are not picky about what they accept.

Oh yes they are. They get bombarded with donations. And despite what I thought they were worth, the grim reality is they are with close to zero.

Shoogley 01-31-2021 09:50 AM

Take it to the library.

wdst1 01-31-2021 10:00 AM

Mark Twain library.. It a small, volunteer run library. They accept all book donations


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