Hmm, looks like there is a "Books to Prisoners" group in Seattle, but they want you to donate $35 per box of books because they ship them to prisoners and say that costs $70 a box. Um, ok. Found an article on another local group, but not sure if they take books, so I emailed them. I figure for me it would be seriously cruel and unusual punishment to lock me up without books, so...yeah.
Right, what's a little sweater sniffing between sworn enemies?
Riley ,'Sleeper'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
meara - Jan 31, 2014 9:00:35 am PST #22021 of 28354
Typo Boy - Jan 31, 2014 9:09:03 am PST #22022 of 28354
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Yeah, that $35 fee is kinda wtf.
The only problem with half-price books is the likelihood of leaving with as many books as you arrive with.
Typo Boy - Jan 31, 2014 9:11:23 am PST #22023 of 28354
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Books to Prisoners Olympia does not charge to accept donations BTW, so the Seattle chapter is being "special".
Connie Neil - Jan 31, 2014 9:31:58 am PST #22024 of 28354
brillig
hospitalsould be mt thoughy.
Atropa - Jan 31, 2014 11:17:02 am PST #22025 of 28354
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Check and see if any of the youth shelters take book donations. Oooh, see if Lambert House does! (They're a queer and trans youth shelter/community center.)
Consuela - Jan 31, 2014 11:26:41 am PST #22026 of 28354
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
meara, I generally give my books to the library. Whatever they don't want for the shelves gets sold to raise more money for the library system. Works out pretty well.
sumi - Jan 31, 2014 11:49:31 am PST #22027 of 28354
Art Crawl!!!
Kat - Jan 31, 2014 1:38:15 pm PST #22028 of 28354
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
meara, you can also call the YMCA and see if they want them for their Welcome Centers. Or you can get some boy scout or girl scout to make you a Little Free Library as their service project and you can slowly release them into the wild. It'll take longer, but oh so fun.
Or you can call a teacher at your local high school and ask if she would take book donations for a classroom library, or drop them by the front office of a school. Or a tribal school.
Cass - Jan 31, 2014 6:03:49 pm PST #22029 of 28354
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
If Lambert House takes donations, I think they are a really good new home for books.
lisah - Feb 01, 2014 8:55:45 am PST #22030 of 28354
Punishingly Intricate
As a kid/teenager I would've KILLED to get a huge number of books like this, but I don't think I know any locally who would want them?
Or you can call a teacher at your local high school and ask if she would take book donations for a classroom library, or drop them by the front office of a school. Or a tribal school.
What Kat said! We've given our friend who's a hs English teacher in Bmore City a bunch of books & graphic novels for her classroom library and the kids LOVE it!