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Exchange or Donate Books

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BookMooch

This free service lets you give away books you no longer need in exchange for books you really want.

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Bookins

Find your old book a new home.

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PaperBackSwap

Swap books online.

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EcoEncore

Donate your used books. Funds raised help environmental organisations operating in the Pacific Northwest.

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Nyaka AIDS Orphans School Book Drive

Donate books for children and young adults to schools for orphans or vulnerable children in Uganda.

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Better World Books

Donate your unwanted books and funds raised from the sale of these books will benefit charity of your choice out of 4 available.

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Books for Africa

Post your unwanted books to benefit educations establishments in Africa.

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Support Ashesi University

Current or latest edition college-level academic texts, among other things, are required for this university in Ghana.

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Directory of Book Donation Programmes

Huge list of websites and organisations that accept book donations for a huge variety of projects.

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Book Donation Directory

Another huge list of websites and organisations that accept book donations for a huge variety of projects.

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Reader to Reader

Donate your gently used books so that needy school libraries and public libraries in the poorest communities, including inner-city schools, Native American Reservations, and poor rural towns can be stocked up.

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Books Beyond Borders

Donate your unwanted books, where the proceeds from book sales help fund school building projects and other education initiatives in developing countries.

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Books Through Bars

Books Through Bars need specific books which they send to prisoners. Check their website to see if your unwanted book is on their list.

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Prison Books

Donate your unwanted books to Prison Books who will then distribute them to the men and women behind bars.

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Borderline Books

Borderline Books collects unwanted books from individuals and redistributes them free of charge to refugees, (former) prisoners, women and children in refuges, homeless people, and others who have little or no access to books

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Books 4 Tanzania

Books 4 Tanzania is a small independent charitable organisation sourcing books for rural libraries and supporting small educational projects in Tanzania.

 

 

 

 

     

 

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