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Originally Posted by issybird
Easier said than done, and also easier said than should be done, in many cases.
As for the first, I’m pretty sure that my own public library hasn’t started accepting donations again yet.
As for the second, there are too many instances of people passing along the valueless to a charity so the charity has the problem of disposing it. In this particular case, it’s important to remove the “sacred” aspect to the notion of these books and view them for what they are, a commodity. Then evaluate them closely for ones with intrinsic value, i.e., it would be worth it to another to buy/sell/keep it. And then the rest, which realistically will be most of them as used books have very little value in general, really are trash and should be viewed as such and recycled as possible (covers on hardcovers are not recyclable) and the remainder dumped.
In any case, it’s a big job. Books are heavy and bulky - another reason it’s wrong to shift your own deaccession issues onto another entity.
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May I present another option that is not a charity shop? Donate books to prisoners.
https://prisonbookprogram.org/prisonbooknetwork/
Prison libraries vary wildly from facility to facility and what each state will allow prisoners to read also varies, but you won't find a more marginalized group with less access to reading material in the US.