--- title: "What to Do With Old Books You No Longer Want | Denver" description: "Five options for old books in Denver in 2026, compared honestly: free doorstep pickup, Little Free Libraries, community sales, and selling them yourself." lang: en json-ld: | [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://givemybooksnetwork.com/#organization", "name": "Give My Books Network", "legalName": "Book Sourcing Mastery, LLC", "url": "https://givemybooksnetwork.com", "logo": "https://givemybooksnetwork.com/social-card.jpg", "image": "https://givemybooksnetwork.com/social-card.jpg", "description": "Give My Books Network is a nationwide United States network of local Pick-Up Partners who collect used books, textbooks, CDs and DVDs for free directly from the donor's door, resell what is sellable and rehome the rest to schools, libraries, shelters and nonprofits.", "foundingDate": "2022", "telephone": "+1-855-506-8633", "email": "support@givemybooksnetwork.com", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "2091 Stratton Ct.", "addressLocality": "Ann Arbor", "addressRegion": "MI", "postalCode": "48108", "addressCountry": "US" }, "contactPoint": { "@type": "ContactPoint", "telephone": "+1-855-506-8633", "contactType": "customer service", "email": "support@givemybooksnetwork.com", "availableLanguage": "English" }, "sameAs": [ "https://www.facebook.com/givemybooksnetwork", "https://www.instagram.com/givemybooksnetwork", "https://twitter.com/givemybooks" ], "areaServed": { "@type": "Country", "name": "United States" } }, { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Organization", "name": "Give My Books Network", "legalName": "Book Sourcing Mastery, LLC", "url": "https://givemybooksnetwork.com", "logo": "https://givemybooksnetwork.com/social-card.jpg", "image": "https://givemybooksnetwork.com/social-card.jpg", "description": "Give My Books Network provides free door-to-door book donation pickup services across the United States. 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Pickup handles the biggest piles — pack the boxes, set them out by 8 AM, and a Local Pick-Up Partner collects them between 8 AM and 8 PM. ## What Are the Top Options for Old Books in Denver in 2026? Five options are genuinely worth your time, and the right one depends almost entirely on how many books you have and whether you can drive them anywhere. 1. **Free doorstep pickup** — any quantity, no drive, no cost. 2. **Little Free Libraries** — a handful of paperbacks at a time. 3. **People you already know** — the most direct route, and the most limited. 4. **Community book sales and school drives** — good, but seasonal. 5. **Selling them yourself** — the only one that pays, and the one that costs the most hours. The rest of this page is honest about each, including the ones that are not us. ## Option 1: Free Doorstep Pickup Across Denver Give My Books Network collects books free from Denver doorsteps in any quantity. Pack the boxes yourself, schedule a service day, and set them out by 8 AM — a Local Pick-Up Partner collects between 8 AM and 8 PM, and you do not need to be home. ### Where to Donate Books You No Longer Want Give My Books Network takes what the other options decline: textbooks, encyclopedia sets, book club editions, mass-market paperbacks, whole basements. A Local Pick-Up Partner is the locally owned family business that does the collecting, not a national carrier. **The trade-off:** no tax receipt, because partners are family businesses rather than 501(c)(3) nonprofits. And some of what you hand over is resold rather than donated — that resale is exactly what keeps the pickup free. ## Option 2: Little Free Libraries and Neighborhood Shelves Little Free Libraries work beautifully for four or five books at a time. Berkeley and the Highlands are thick with them, and a walk down Tennyson Street will turn up several within a few blocks of each other. **What is good:** immediate, local, free, and genuinely charming. Your neighbor takes the book home that afternoon. **What is limited:** a box does not fit. Stuffing twenty books into a shelf built for twelve makes it somebody else's project, and stewards notice. ## Option 3: Passing Books to People You Already Know The most reliable second life a book gets is a friend's shelf. A colleague who mentioned the author, a neighbor with a kid the right age, a book club that would take the whole stack. **What is good:** zero logistics, and you know exactly where the book landed. **What is limited:** it scales to about a dozen books before you start pressing volumes on people who were being polite. Everyone has a limit, and it is lower than you think. ## Option 4: Community Book Sales and School Drives Community sales and school drives take donations on a schedule — mostly spring and fall in Denver, run by volunteers out of church halls, school gyms, and library branch rooms. **What is good:** the money stays local and the books reach neighbors directly. **What is limited:** timing and volume. A drive that ended in October is no help to a November move, and volunteers cannot take twenty boxes at the door on sale day. Libraries face the same squeeze; the [American Library Association's Book Donation Programs guide](https://libguides.ala.org/book-donations) lays out why. ## Option 5: Selling Them Yourself Selling works, and it pays, and it takes real hours. Listing a book online means photographing it, describing the condition, pricing it, packing it, and standing in line at the post office for the sake of four dollars. **What is good:** for a genuinely valuable book — a signed first edition, a scarce technical title — this is the correct answer, and Give My Books Network will tell you so rather than take it. **What is limited:** for eleven boxes of ordinary paperbacks, the math is brutal. Most people who start listing stop at book nine. ## Which Option Fits Your Pile? Where to donate books depends less on the books than on the size of the pile and whether you can move it. Four paperbacks go in a Little Free Library. A dozen go to friends. A hundred do not fit in either. - **1–5 books** — Little Free Library, or a friend. - **6–20 books** — a community sale, a school drive, or a friend with a book club. - **20+ books, or no car** — free doorstep pickup. - **One genuinely valuable book** — sell it yourself. ## What Denver Donors Should Know Before Choosing Old books are worth more than most Denver donors assume. Textbooks, encyclopedias, and book club editions are written off constantly, and all three are collected and moved toward classrooms and tutoring programs through the Give ME Books program. Denver's dry air also works in your favor here. Books that spent a decade in a garage usually come out fine — no mildew, no swelling — so check the box before you assume the contents are finished. Only mold, water swelling, and structural collapse actually end a book. ### Ready to schedule your free Denver book pickup? We'll come to your door — no cost, no hassle. Book pickup, DVD pickup, large-quantity, estate, and more in Denver, CO. Schedule Free Pickup Or browse all Denver donation services including Textbook Donations , DVD & Media Donation Pickup , Scheduled Book Pickup . ## Frequently Asked Questions ### Where can I donate books near me in Denver? ### What should I do with old books a library will not take? ### Are Little Free Libraries a good place for a whole box of books? ### Is it worth selling old books online instead? ### Do I need to be home for a Denver book pickup? ### Can I donate old textbooks and encyclopedias? ## More from Denver Learn More Best places to donate books in Denver Learn More Book landfill diversion Learn More Handling a large book collection in Denver Service Textbook Donations in Denver Service DVD & Media Donation Pickup in Denver Service Scheduled Book Pickup in Denver Back to Denver Donation Services ![Give My Books Network Logo](/assets/gmbn-logo-BsMIhLrP.png) **America's Nationwide Community Book-Sharing Network.** Free book and media pickup service! 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