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Opacity9850 ,

In our country we have these peddlers who buy papers, books, metal items for cheap and then they resell them to recycle then ultimately or for other uses.

Noxvento ,
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Based on Fahrenheit 451: Call your local Firefighter.

Rosriv ,

I’d definitely recommend just leaving them in a book box. The concept is easy: leave a book, take a book. But there’s nothing saying you can’t just leave book. Don’t have one nearby? Create one. 🥰

PostmodernPythia ,

This is the service the library I used to work at used for discards. services.betterworldbooks.com/individuals/

RightHandOfIkaros ,

Recycle them. Or call up your local library and ask if they want them. Usually libraries will have an attached used book store, sometimes they put donated books there.

satanmat ,

Do your best impression of a Christian Nationalist and have a book burning.

Very_Bad_Janet ,

I have:

  • Sold books to used bookstores
  • Sold books online (one at a time, so only ones that could earn a lot)
  • Sold books in lots on Craigslist and in local groups
  • Donated them to my local library and Salvation Army
  • Given them to my kids' school
  • Given them to friends (after inquiring about their interest in the specific titles or authors)
  • Left them.in a box outside labeled "Free Please Take"
  • Placed them.in the free book thingy near my home where neighbors leave or take books (it looks sort of like an old time call box except with shelves and a glass door on top)
  • Left them at hostels while traveling
HubertManne ,

Our train station has a straight up wood bookshelf for the take a book, leave a book thing. There should be a whole library sized one at every airport considering some of the delays.

sprl ,

Tiny libraries, second hand books, organisations, maybe even art schools.

ed_cock , (edited )
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it’s bad juju to throw books in the trash right?

The books you are talking about are mass produced commodity items, right? If you don't want them anymore and don't know anyone else who does just treat them like any other print product and toss 'em out. They weren't painstakingly copied by monks, the knowledge inside will not be lost, just being a book doesn't make them special.

Signed, someone who had to deal with a slew of outdated guidebooks, encyclopedias, cookbooks, reader's digest issues, never-read novels and whatever else from a deceased relative because they just couldn't bring themselves to put them in the recycling bin.

mohKohn ,

just … bring them to a library or thrift store… they're better at figuring out what's actually valuable

FelipeFelop ,
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Another vote for charity shops/thrift stores. It’s a good way to raise a little money for charity and for someone to get a book they might no afford at full price.

I don’t know about the rest of the world but here in the UK, supermarkets and businesses sometimes have a little bookshelf. You leave any books you don’t want and people can take them putting a few coins in a collection tin that goes to a good cause.

Another thing to do is take them to work, colleagues might well want them.

ed_cock ,
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If you have one nearby then maybe, but I bet you even they don't want that slightly water damaged, smelly copy of some cheapo 80s encyclopedia.

Around here it's also relatively common to sell old books by weight/volume, either on flea markets or classifieds/Ebay. But sometimes it literally isn't worth the effort.

macrocephalic ,

My local thrifty shop had a pallet of assorted books and you can fill a bag for $5. I think of it like a lazy person’s library, I get a bunch of books, pay my dues, and then return them when I’m done.

phillycodehound ,
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Donate them to the library or used bookstore

agilob , (edited )
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I sell on eBay for the price of postage

Spacebar ,
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Good Will

jerrimu ,

Give them away.

SWIM ,

Make a little library on your front lawn and fill it up,before you know it they will be gone and people will have put others in its place.

Bakachu ,

Love these! We have one in my neighborhood and it’s pretty convenient to drop off my read pile in there.

jordanlund ,

Take them to a used bookstore.

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