To think no-one wants old books any more?

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I have a whole lot of books which I'm going to give away, in the interests of decluttering, making an extra bedroom for the DCs, clearing space etc etc.

They are mostly novels and non-fiction, no rubbish I don't think and in good condition. Most of them are at least a few years old.

Our local charity shop doesn't take books (I live abroad and English is a foreign language there anyway). There is Freecycle although I suspect most of them would just get binned. I am even thinking of posting them to a charity shop in the UK. I'm visiting at the moment and the shops here have plenty of books. But again I wonder how much they are worth to the shop and perhaps they'd rather I donate the postage costs and recycle the books.

What do you think? Are they of any use to anyone? Or does nobody want old books any more?

I don't know about the country you are living in but my local doctor's surgery takes donated books and sells them for charity. Lots of books in charity shops too at quite a high price.

I would have bitten your hand off for books in English when I lived overseas in the pre-kindle era. What about seeing if a local language school can use them I their library, or put an ad in the paper that expats read? Or give them to a hotel, if you're in a tourist area.