Save The Enviroment: Buy Cheap Used Books
People donating cheap used books to thrift stores for reselling can also be friendly to the environment. Even should they go unsold they can be delivered straight to recycling plants where they are transformed into post consumer paper you can use to make several other paper products like grocery bags, letter head, labels, etc.Having said that, an even better choice would be to offer used books to city libraries or even charities for their literacy services. Reselling, donating and recycling are certainly more environment-friendly choices to sending undesired books to dumps.
While people will always be interested in fresh, new and shiny things there is a unique joy in coming across good as new titles which are a lot cheaper. Previously owned books frequently contain a certain appeal to them that murmurs of charm and history. They convey a story of their own which is outside of the printed pages within them. And that is exactly what makes them so special.