Help me compare this - book people vs local library

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The dds primary school have announced they have some scheme with The Book People if you spend £10 they donate £1 to the school to spend on books.

Help me un pick this....is 10% donation that much? Since paperbacks cost about £7 they need a minimum spend of £70.

Up the road from the school is a very well presented local library with lots of events on.

I kind of take issue with the school promoting buying loads more books (the personal spend not the school one) with the current climate crisis.

Am I bu? Is this a good deal? Is it rubbish?

What do you think?

Stuff in the book people is as cheap as chips. Massively discounted. I used to buy tonnes from them. However, if your kids are the type to only read books once, maybe the library is the way forward.

When DD was younger I bought lots from TheBookPeople as they are very cheap offering bundles of books or heavily discounted ones.

You can easily get 5-10 books for £10. They are also the only one selling the Harry Potter audiobooks for an amount where I don't have to remortgage the house. They also do lots of activity books which are great for presents, holidays or to get out when you have a sick child.

In my opinion you can't buy enough books. Most books DD outgrew and we don't want to keep went to the school llibrary, given to colleague's children, charity shops, hospital wards. Unless utterly broken I don't throw a book away.

We also have a lovely library and DD went there all the time, often to try an author or for factual books. One doesn't exclude the other.

Don't see why it needs to be 'either / or'.
My dc all used to borrow loads of books from the library week in, week out, but I would still buy things from the Book People. Not for any altruistic reason about a % going in to the school, but because they made very nice presents for children going to birthday parties or at Christmas.