What's the proper way to get rid of books?

BurningnnTree@lemmy.one to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 80 points –

I mean it's bad juju to throw books in the trash right? What's the proper way to get rid of them? (with the least amount of effort)

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Check with your local library or schools to see if they accept book donations. If not, there are probably a few secondhand bookstores near you that will buy some of them from you.

Please check first and accept their answer if it’s a no! Do not dump your 1991 NatGeos without asking. Love, Librarians

Especially Nat Geos. Those things are valuable.

Really? I never knew - are people starting to warm up on collecting Natgeos or has this been a thing around your neck of the woods/world for a while?

I believe that may be sarcasm.

That'd be right, lol - thanks for the help parsing the context, I really did just assume it was earnest

This is the best way in my experience; I was able to get rid of over 20 filing boxes of books this way while helping my folks downsize their collection. It’s a small way to support your local library system, and I’ve had some excellent finds at thrift book stores/library sales over the years so it’s nice to contribute to that as well