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I have several large boxes of books in my house that I want to donate. They're mostly books that I've outgrown - lot of decent children's fiction, like Philip Pullman, Anthony Horowitz, the Edge Chronicles, the Mortal Engines series, etc. I'm also giving away a couple of adult books that I'm never going to read (Robert Ludlum and the like)
The question is: should I give them to my local charity bookshop OR my local library? Who will appreciate them more?
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The library won't take them so give them to charity.
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>>9469198
Why won't they take them? They have a big children's section
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>>9469198
this
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>>9469202
most don't take used books
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Library's tend to take the bare minimum of government approved dreck to keep the population barely literate. (Just look at me - I didn't even spell "Libraries" right.)
The staff probably won't want to take the time to plastic-bind your books. Having said that your books are better off in a library if you can get them there so it's worth a try.
As for the charity shop, it depends where you live. I usually drive several towns over to donate the books I read because I know they won't be picked up in my local charity shop. If you live in a high-income area and have a good charity book shop then they won't be wasted there
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