Where is Book Heaven?

Ecci51 If you look at the Ziffit site, you enter barcode on book, cd that gives you price, free courier service collects them, it is not like amazon is what I meant. Hope that helps.

Oxfam bookshop took 4 huge boxes from me when I cleared my late brother's house early last year. They even collected them but the best bit was when they emailed after a few months and had made almost £200 so far from sales.

Following Gillybob's post, I went to Alnwick last year and discovered Barter's Bookshop in the old station, it's such an amazing place, completely unique. A friend and I spent a lovely afternoon browsing the books and there's a cafe on site that sells lovely cakes and scones. Should any of you find yourself in Alnwick well worth a visit.

I give mine to The British Heart Foundation and Butterfly Hospice shops. They`ve never refused them yet.

The Rotary Club in my area takes book donations as they have regular book sales through the year.

If you haven’t already tried the British Heart Foundation they will possibly collect any you have. Worth looking on line.

Thank you GN'rs for coming up trumps again.

Will ask the local library tomorrow (I had no idea they adopted second hand books). I'd forgotten that my city hospital has a League of Friends book stall. Oh! gillybob I wish I lived in Northumberland - Barter's looks a readers heaven. Tesco's here aren't so hospitable, there's no FARA or Oxfam bookshop locally (or community hall)....BUT I'll start off with the library. Thank you for your ideas.

National Trust properties have second hand book shops at their sites.

Hillwalker70, what do you mean by 'not a marketplace' site? Where online can you sell books?

www.barterbooks.co.uk/

Not sure where you are bohemian but There is a brilliant second hand book shop in Alnwick called Barters Books, it’s based in the old station and is one of the biggest (if not the biggest) in the country . They will buy books from you .

If you have enough then perhaps you could do the same.
Or give them to a hospice to be sold on their open day.

My church set up a book stall with just my donated books.
I didn't know what to do with them. Twelve banana boxes of them.
Just a warning, six years on i still miss them even though I've kept hundreds .

Have you an Oxfam bookshop somewhere near you?

I noticed on the latest charity bag collection it had " no books " printed on it.

Ziffit, online , box them up and get some money for them. Not a marketplace site, you know how much you get before you send.

Christian Aid runs a massive spring book sale.

I donate ours to the local library. Good specimens go on their shelves if they haven’t got multiple copies, and the rest they sell for 50p or less.

A few years ago I had a big clearout of books. I asked various people, groups (as above) and the only ones I found a home for were some almost new french ones about WW2 - the local library were very grateful for them.
So the others ended up at the tip. A shame because there was one set of international short stories that I inherited from my Grandad. Very old, but rather smelly (cigarettes.)

Some county libraries accept donated books which are in good condition. Mine does.

Consider other charitable cause other than the the usual big names. We have a community bookshop which raises money to buy mobility scooters which can be hired by shoppers or for longer term use.

Our village hall has a bookshelf. The parish council recently acquired the old telephone box which is now used for book swaps.

Our local scout group has a big twice-yearly booksale and welcomes donations.

The city university has bookshelves of donated fiction in its various campus buildings.

A market trader might take them or consider setting up your own sellers account through Amazon.

Lastly, consider releasing some of your books into the wild to see where they end up. www.bookcrossing.com/

One of our local pubs has a book-swap box, although "hundreds" of books would be more than they could handle!

Try putting them in a box by your garden gate (on a fine day) with a notice "Help Yourself: Free to Good Homes". Where I used to live, there was a lady who regularly rehomed surplus plant cuttings in this way.

Our local hospital has a second hand book shop, some small local companies have book exchanges in their reception area. Our library also accept books as gifts. We always head for book stalls at car boot sales if you wanted to earn some extra cash.

Our local bus station has a shelf for used books, and there are always people browsing there. I’ve seen them in railway stations too.

A second-hand bookshop ? There's one in my local village and each time I've passed I've always seen a fair amount of people inside so it's popular.

One of our local garden centres had a stall for second hand books. People could take one and leave a donation that went to a charity.