Books

[juliet]

So, I hauled 2 bags of books and a bag of random clothes & stuff down to the charity shop on Monday, only to discover that they're no longer taking donations. Bother.

I have a vague recollection that there are places online where you can give books away (other than Freecycle). Anyone able to point me in an appropriate direction?

Comments

[abi]

Bookcrossing is a fun sort of way to get rid of books. It does require you to leave them lying around in a way that always feels a bit like littering to me, though.

[sbp.livejournal.com]

H'mm, yes, dumping 20 books on a tube is probably not within the spirit of the thing. Maybe you could go along the passengers and go "one for you, one for you" until they were all gone?

[weatherpixie.livejournal.com]

I actually disposed of a bunch of books through book crossing, just on a one a day on the tube basis.

There are also book crossing points you can leave them at.

http://homepage.mac.com/pachydomo/LondonZones.htm

Dunno if any of these are reasonably close tho...

[juliet]

Oh, fabulous! There's one right by my work (at the Nat Hist Museum) so I could do that.

I've just listed a stack of things on Amazon but I doubt very much if all or even most will go. Once they're off that I'll hike them along to the NHM.

[weatherpixie.livejournal.com]

Its also quite fun tracking where the book goes, and I suspect you have a higher chance of that from a crossing point, rather than random book littering...

If you can get labels that go through printer its not at all arduous, tho I just used plain paper and pritt stick.