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

[duskpeterson]

A lot of good ideas above. I will just add that Little Free Libraries are an ideal way to get rid of books a little bit at a time, gradually, so that you don't end up having a whole bunch of books that you need to find a home for. Back before the Little Free Libraries came along, I had to have a troop of Boy Scouts tote hundreds of my books to a library booksale; the poor boys were exhausted by the end. But these days, when I go out, I take a book or two with me to drop off at a Little Free Library. And the books always end up disappearing from the Little Free Library box, so I know that somebody appreciated my donations.

[jesse_the_k]

thanks for the LFL endorsement.

(I have kinky images of Boy Scout crocodiles lugging book crates down the street, which is slightly on-brand.)

[tarasacon]

*snort*
:)