Getting rid of unwanted books and magazines

Here are some ideas for recycling books and magazines you no longer want:

1. Hold a garage sale and get rid of them there. Perhaps friends or neighbors would take books in their garage sales.
2. Your local Salvation Army Thrift Store may want them. As with all charitable organizations, call and ask first.
3. Public libraries may take them; often they will place them in their ongoing used book sales rather than put them on their shelves, unless the books are fairly new.
4. Give them away to avid readers you have in your circle of friends.
5. A nearby detention centre or penal institution may require books for its library.
6. Hospitals may want them for their waiting rooms.
7. Senior Activity centers are often holding book sales to raise money.
8. Nursing homes or long term care facilities often accept books for their libraries, especially hard cover editions which use larger print than paperbacks.
9. School libraries love to get books because their budgets are often modest. Prime candidates are those big coffee table books with lots of pictures and recent edition college textbooks. They make great reference books for students.
10. Your local symphony orchestra may be having a book sale.
11. Churches always have books sales.
12. Shelters for the homeless have libraries.
13. Women’s shelters may need books for their clients.
14. Take magazines to your doctor or dentist’s office, or to the hairdressing salon.