![]() Send them to prisoners Photo credit: Paul Gargagliano, Books Through Bars To get access to either database of requests, you need to register. Donations also benefit wounded warriors and vets who have returned home, as well as amazing and tear-jerking programs like the USO’s United Through Reading program, which helps deployed soldiers read their kids bedtime stories, virtually. troops serving overseas and Operation Paperback has delivered upwards of 2.2 million books to over 30 locations across the globe. To date, Books for Soldiers has shipped more than $30 million in care packages to U.S. ![]() there’s no central clearinghouse for books, just you - and shipping is an added cost, typically about $20 per care package. Both Books for Soldiers and Operation Paperback (and smaller, local chapters like Tampa Bay’s Books for Troops) connect volunteers directly with soldiers stationed overseas who have requested specific book titles or genres. Think Operation Gratitude, but for used books. Send them to soldiers Photo credit: Operation Paperback In fact, it can cost up to $16,000 for one shipping container - but that breaks down to about 50 cents per book. Note that both organizations ask for financial assistance in addition to used book donations, because shipping books across the Atlantic isn’t cheap. (In other words, you are not alone in a) your hoarding b) your love of books c) your do-gooder impulses.) To date, The African Library Project has completed 1,911 libraries across Africa and donated more than 2 million books. A donation of 1,000 books and $500 to cover shipping equals one functioning library - and you’d be surprised how quickly book donations add up once you put out the APB. If you are sitting on a personal goldmine of books, or feel like spearheading a used book drive in your community, The African Library Project connects book drives in the U.S. medical, nursing, IT, and law books published after 2000.primary, secondary, and college textbooks (soft and hard cover) published after 2000.popular fiction and nonfiction books, both paperback and hardcover.(They send computers, e-Readers, and school supplies as well.) Over 2.4 million bound books and 1.6 million digital books have been sent so far this year, dispersed across 21 African countries. The nonprofit, founded in 1988, takes individual donations of fiction and nonfiction titles but is especially keen on timely reference and textbooks. The Books for Africa mission is simple and evocative - putting an end to Africa’s book famine. Send them to Africa Photo credit: flickr, BFA Delivers Books to Schools in Dakar, Senegal (January 2010) I asked the Internet, and the Internet answered. But where else can they go where they will live a full second life (and not end up in the landfill)? But which home? There are the standbys, of course - your kids’ schools, the local library, Goodwill, that adorable Little Free Library down the street. And for that very reason I have three Trader Joe’s bags full of books in the trunk of my car, in search of a home. I’ve read enough Marie Kondo in my time that I can’t look at a pile of books in my house without interrogating myself about joy, tidiness, self-worth, and the like.
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