[hobo272]

An excellent place to donate your books (or most anything else) would be Centsibles upscale thrift shop on 441 in Summerfield. It is run by religious organizations and all religious books are free, while all other books in their large book section are priced very low. It is also an excellent source of a wide variety of books for book clubs. You can also get a reciept for tax purposes, if desired. The warehouse in back of the store is open M-F, at 10 to 4 pm. for donations.

Paradise library will take them

[newgirl]

A jail or prison, homeless shelter may love them now with covid, thrift stores etc.

[DAVES]

Originally Posted by jblum315

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

When we moved to the Villages, I had hundreds of pounds of books and a wife screaming we will not have room for them. I had several hundred current photo books as I used to sell them and they were samples. I was disappointed that our library didn't even want them. We had a new library with many empty shelves. No interest in what I had or in making the effort.

Selling them? There are used book stores. I think you will be shocked at how little they will pay. You can give them to one of the villages libraries they all resell books. I expect with Covid not all are opened and people trapped in their homes are doing stuff like getting rid of stuff. My friend has cleaned his garage 2-3x this year. Fortunately it has not effected me.

I expect, I HOPE, covid will be over in six months and like spring after a tough snowy winter life will re-emerge. Hey not much snow in Florida. Had you lived in Syracuse with
120 inches of snow a year, it would make sense.

[chrissy2231]

Donate to library or vets

[zendog3]

Why do you give your books to a library? Because you are not going to reuse them, and they are taking up space.

The big problems for libraries are 1. Not enough money to buy new books; Not enough staff to process new materials and service patrons; Not enough space to store and display new materials.
The cost to process materials and put them on the shelf is substantial. If the library has more unpaid volunteers than they can use for shelf reading and other chores, the money the book sales take in MAY justify the space for storage and periodic book sales, but the "gift" of your unwanted discards is, at best, a mixed blessing.

The library wants to serve you and needs your help. If you give them a few bucks every year, that would be great. Donating last year's pot boiler -- not so much.

[Dzurinko]

My wife has donated many books to Sumter County Library in Pinellas Plaza. They have an outside drop box near the front door. You can drop books in there 24/7. They either place them on library shelves or sell them in their tiny book store. The best thing about it is you can put 20 in the back of your vehicle and when your out that way, day or night, weekday or Sunday, you can’t put them in the drop box. Will take some time to get rid of 200, but a little at a time and you’ll be done.

[shortstack]

I would like to see what you have. 515-321-5070

[Hancie2]

Public library will take them

[kathyspear]

Originally Posted by soniak4@gmail.com

Donate them to the Coleman Prison.

When we did a major downsizing up north I decided to do some serious pruning of my books. I wanted to donate them to a charity that provides books for prisoners and was shocked at how picky they were. No fiction over 2 years old regardless of the author. They had a list of "preferred subjects" which included books on witchcraft. (Alas, I had none.) I ended up donating them to Goodwill or Salvation Army, I forget which.

kathy

[Taltarzac725]

Good to hear from a former librarian.

Originally Posted by zendog3

Why do you give your books to a library? Because you are not going to reuse them, and they are taking up space.

The big problems for libraries are 1. Not enough money to buy new books; Not enough staff to process new materials and service patrons; Not enough space to store and display new materials.
The cost to process materials and put them on the shelf is substantial. If the library has more unpaid volunteers than they can use for shelf reading and other chores, the money the book sales take in MAY justify the space for storage and periodic book sales, but the "gift" of your unwanted discards is, at best, a mixed blessing.

The library wants to serve you and needs your help. If you give them a few bucks every year, that would be great. Donating last year's pot boiler -- not so much.

[rogerk]

Consider the public library in all 3 counties will accept donations as we as the Mark Twain Library in Paradise Rec center (limited).

Also there is a used book store in Colony, "All Booked Up"

I hope this helps!

[patfla06]

Before I moved here I donated 500 books to John Knox Village in Tampa for
their Senior library.

Pinellas Library takes donated books also.

I finally had to start using Ibooks due to my avid reading. ☺️

[DaddyD]

Donate them to Hospice via the Hospice Thrift Store in Summerfield located at 17820 SE 109th Ave Unit 607, Summerfield, FL 34491

The store is located across the street from the Super Walmart on Hwy 441

[chnewton@msn.com]

We will be glad to have you donate books to the new Free Little Library just installed in Wildwood by the Woman's Club of The Villages (read about it in today's Daily Sun). You may contact Carol Newton at 352-399-6307 or chnewton@msn.com.