What's the easiest and quickest way to get rid of hundreds of books

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It sort of makes me sick to my stomach to throw them in the trash, but I will if I have to. However, I'm on a secondfloor apartment and it's a good distance to the trash, so that's not trivial, either. An aunt is the HR person at the women's shelter here and she wants to take some of the hardbacks, though I think she might be overwhelmed by how many I have.

Would craigslist work well? Could burberry scarf I just say that people could come and look through the big plastic tubs we've filled with books, leave the tubs on my porch, and let people get what they want? Or would they be put off by them being all jumbled and, worse, scatter them about and upsetting my neighbors?

We can't be available to answer inquiries from those interested in the books and anything that is time and labor intensive isn't really an option because there's a lot more to be packed and <a href="http://www.madeelodesign.de/isabelmarantsneaker/">isabel marant sneaker wedges</a> we can't devote much effort to disposing of these books. But at the moment, they're taking up both space and packing materials that we need to use for, you know, packing and moving.

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If you are in the US, Vietnam Vets of America may be able to do a free pick up. Salvation Army offers a similar service.

posted by spunweb at 6:40 PM on May 19, 2012 [4 favorites]

I've gotten rid of books via Craigslist it went extremely smoothly. (A little too smoothly; I was careless, and I think lost a box of technical books in the process.)

Just put an ad up, put your books out, and they'll probably disappear fairly quickly.

posted by darth_tedious at 6:40 PM on May 19, 2012 [1 favorite]

Oh, and used bookstores DO exist, but won't do a pick up.

posted by spunweb at 6:41 PM on May 19, 2012

I would bundle them by genre, maybe about 4050 books per lot. Post them on Craigslist and Freecycle, and state clearly that the taker has prada online to take the whole lot.

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I got rid of lots of similar books by posting on freecycle. Also, you might check to see if there is peuterey jacken a lot of book crossing activity near you of course, you wouldn't want to release all those books yourself, but maybe by posting to the bookcrossing twitter feed you could find someone willing to pick them up?

posted by instamatic at 6:43 PM on May 19, 2012

Thrift stores. Call your local Salvation Army store and ask if they'll do pickups of a large number of books. They often do so for furniture; I can't see why this would be any different.

posted by PhoBWanKenobi at 6:52 PM on May 19, 2012

The friends of the library in your region does a book sale and has a list of the types of books that they would take. They likely do not pick up but you might be able to swing a freecycle "Take them all, donate the rest to the library" situation which would be preferable to tossing them.

posted by jessamyn at 6:59 PM on May 19, 2012 [4 favorites]

Donate them to Better World Books.

Simply print out the shipping labels and post them off. If you have a lot of books there is an email address to contact. There is a list of sorts of books they won't accept (which isn't many) and they have to be in good clean condition.

All for a a good cause

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Where do you live? In Chicago, there are a couple of local orgs that will come and pick up books.

posted by nooneyouknow at 7:07 PM on May 19, 2012

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