[Gwen Morse]

A family member is moving overseas and has to get rid of most possessions (due to shipping costs). This includes a large, multi-thousand book collection (presently stored in an attic and basement). The collection has been whittled down to about 100 books as "keepers".

No one wants to be responsible for selling them one by one via Amazon/Ebay/etc. The local library no longer takes "Donations".

A local used book store will pick through them and pay some small amount for each book they take. However, they're already advising they'll be very picky and so probably won't take many books (maybe a couple hundred at most). They simply don't have the space for any more at once.

What to do with the rest? I had thought maybe donating some to a hospital reading room might be good, but they're not going to want a few thousand books.

Are there any charities or other facilities that will take a large popular book collection (includes explicit romance, action, spy novels)? I discussed it with the priest in our local church (for future fund-raising), he said we'd have to sort out anything 'mature' before they'd consider it. Then, after we dropped them all off we'd have to be prepared to pick them back up if they decided they didn't want them after all.

The best option would be someone who might send a truck out to pick up the boxes (like they do with clothing drives), but we could arrange to drive the boxes to them if we have to. It will just involve several trips.

It's winter and everything is covered in 3+ feet of snow, so a yard sale isn't an option.

The primary goal is to avoid them going in a rented dumpster (so anyone who will take them off our hands for free would be good). However, if there is an option to make a small amount of money (anyone buy books by weight or something?), my cash-strapped relative wouldn't be opposed to making a few pennies....