Help. I have at least 6 or 7 cartons of books and a pile of magazines. I've been taking them ...

[marble falls]

to the VA hospital in Temple when I was going in for my treatment. However Covid has fixed that. I don't go so much and they are not taking books or magazines. I had people who were bringing them to me to take with us. I can't take them to assisted living homes: covid, and also not to the VA clinic in Austin. And I've heard that a lot of places won't be taking them anymore even after Covid. A lot of thrift shops keep them for so long and then they put them in the dumpster.

I'm thinking about giving them to the used book store up the street.

Anyone with any ideas????


Seriously need help.

[dameatball]

1. I actually stop at yard sales and flea markets to see if they want them. Not a big demand right now.

I may just start putting them out by the street with a "free" sign and see if anyone wants them. The thrift stores around here are not really interested for the most part.

[marble falls]

2. A lot of them are boddice rippers and I don't mind them being repurposed: building materials ...

pulp for paper with recycle content. But land fills? Nope.

[judeling]

3. Had a similar problem

Ended up filling up all of the Tiny Libraries around.

[marble falls]

4. I wish we had them out here. Can only buy reading material at Walmart out here, and one ...

dark musty used book store.

Except for readers of bodice rippers and gun magazines, nobody reads except on RW websites, so that negates the need for any kind of library.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. Places not taking books are wrong.

That's not how the virus is spread. You could try contacting nursing homes or independent/assisted living places.

My local library is doing curbside books only, which is fine, but they are taking a full week to check in returned books, which is ludicrous.