help: Take My Library, Please

[jesse_the_k]

I’ve got around 400 books I no longer want to dust. (I'm saving my vision for new graphic novels.)

• 100+ science fiction or fantasy, dating back to Again Dangerous Visions from the Science Fiction Book Club
• 100 fiction, non-fiction, poetry standards found on the bookshelf of every 65-year-old feminist
• 40+ art topics including architecture, type, books, Celtic patterns, beadwork, songbooks
• 160+ disability related: theory, history, memoir — in print or graphic novel formats

I’m not interested in making money, and shipping them out would cost a lot as well. Almost all these titles are already available in my municipal and UW-Madison libraries, so donation seems unlikely.

MyGuy has volunteered to scan the titles into a database. That gives me a list, but what do I do next?

Comments

[sasha_feather]

My ideas are: Freecycle, Agrace thrift stores, drive around and stock LFLs. We have a lot of books right now at B2P because we haven't been sending as you know, but we do tend to go through science fiction and fantasy very quickly, so we could take a few of those.

[bibliofile]

Sadly, the SFBC editions tend to be hardcover, so maybe only queer-related books?

[sasha_feather]

We can send hard covers sometimes. It just depends on the restrictions of each individual prison; some do accept HCs. :)

[jesse_the_k]

The SF/F is all WisCon adjacent, but I'd be thrilled to send them into the universe.

[jesse_the_k]

Only a few of those left, thank heavens.