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Elderly parents

Loads of books

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AInightingale · 25/09/2023 18:38

I couldn't think of anywhere else to post this, so apologies, it is not health or wellbeing related. My mum is downsizing and can only take a small bookcase of books with her. We have selected her favourites and those that mean a lot to her, but I really don't know what to do with the rest. I can't take more than a few. They are mostly quite old and I don't think charity shops would be interested in more than a few bundles of thrillers, etc. A lot of cookery books, encyclopaedias (70s vintage), old hardbacks from the 40s/50s, biographies of historical figures, a full set of those purple kings and queens books she bought from one of those book clubs years ago. The thought of binning books or throwing them on a skip is too harrowing. Any thoughts? I am in NI so the 'We Buy Books' website does not cover us.

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Wolvesart · 26/09/2023 23:13

YukoandHiro · 26/09/2023 22:26

Was going to suggest could you create a local free library

I think we should not call them ‘free’ libraries in the UK, because libraries here are free

BWTAAL · 26/09/2023 23:26

Offer Mein Kampf to a museum
Look and see if any first editions
Its very unlikely libraries would want many at all, I worked in libraries for many years and old encyclopaedias, readers digest stuff, are just not taken.
Offer to a charity shop.

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