What to do with read books

[CopperBolt]

GiantCardboardPlato said:

PS I've never worked out how people who go on about spines on books manage to actually read books without causing the spine to fold/crease. it has to for you open the book...

Its an acquired skill - basically you bend the front cover when reading the left page, rear cover for right page. Gets more tricky the thicker the book though.

I regularly browse charity shops for books and the spine conditions vary from 'like new' to well thumbed so they seem to take most condition books.

[Ryyy]

Our morrisons has a little bookshelf that you donate books too to help a charity, check there?

[p1doc]

popped into barnados last week while waiting for dominos-minimal books 2 shelves at best and sign saying not accepting anymore books-bizarre

[rambo19]

I take mine into work.
About 25 drivers there(I drive a lorry).

A few other drivers bring books in as well.

[BoRED S2upid]

We have a book exchange in an old phone box you take one and leave one. Works a treat.

[K87]

I don't buy many if any modern paperback novels but if I did I think I would like to give them, one by one, to people that I think would likem them. My daughter likes crime novels and she swaps with another person.

I buy second hand, Pg Wodehouse and as early Jane Austen as I can afford.

[K87]

By coincidence a neighbour has put a table at the bottom of their drive loaded with books and a sign 'help yourself'

[jimwilli]

I put the paperbacks on my front wall and they all went eventually. I gave the hardbacks to a local library i joined thinking they might put them into circulation but they just sell them in a constant book sale to raise funds. No wonder their book inventory is crap

[Cloudy147]

Our local supermarket has a book swap shelf at the back of the checkouts. We put a bunch of read books in there a couple of weeks ago and they’ve all gone. So it must be a well used and enjoyed service in ours.

[Glosphil]

I currently have 5 books on loan from the local library - 2 were donations.

[Randy Winkman]

The recycling "bins" for glass, paper etc near where I live also have a books one. Though I think that's a local scheme and I've no idea what happens to them.

[andrewcliffe]

If you want to raise an absolutely insignificant sum of money, then Ziffit or Music Magpie may buy them. When my mother in law was moving house and downsizing, there were a lot of books to rehome. I think I got £ 8 for one large box. Susequent boxes I dontated to local phone box library, or a charity bookswap table operating in the local Dunelm shop.

Seems a shame to consign them to landfill.

[Mr Tidy]

My village has an old phone box so I leave them there and get replacements.

Some Motorway services have books you can take, they just ask you to leave a charity donation - Frankley services on the M5 for example.

[Hill92]

Start a break room library at your workplace to swap books?