Book Driver operates a book sharing service operated by small sellers and book lovers and offers free book donations pickup in
- Atlanta
- Los Angeles
- Denver, CO metro area
- Colorado Springs
- Chicago
- Orlando/Tampa Bay
Our quick turnaround time and flexible hours makes it easy to donate books. We welcome larger donations from corporations and organizations.
Click here to schedule using our easy form
We do not offer a tax receipt at this time, as we are a for-profit social enterprise. If you’d prefer to get a tax receipt, check out our book donation database.
All books in good condition are sold or donated. Your donations support
- Friends of Library organizations
- Used book stores (we owned Coyote Ridge Books until 2019)
- First Book
- Bernie’s Book Bank
- and 50 other book related causes, organizations, and businesses
At Book Driver we strive for
Convenience – Free book donation pickup. Click here to schedule.
Transparency – We pledge a percentage of profit for every donated book.
Cash Donations – Our donation department is laser focused on generating what charities really need: cash!
Quick turnaround – We pick up within a week of scheduling. (In compliance with COVID-19 guidelines, we are scheduling more in advance as of March 2020 and limiting to outside/lobby pickup only.)
Speaking with your donation consultant about paid moving services if you need help with boxes, packing, or moving.
If you’re not sure, let us know and we may be able to help you figure it out.
Charities Need Cash
If you go to the Denver Library book donation website, you’ll notice that the first thing that is emphasized are “Cash Donations.” Not book donations. This is true of many libraries across the country.
The reason is that while book donations are welcome by public libraries, they also create a cost. A librarian has to sort through the donations, dispose of used textbooks or damaged books. They have to store books for the next library sale. Sales take manpower and planning. All of this takes money before they can be sold and turned into cash.
A misconception is that books donated to the library will enter the collection. They don’t except for some small, rural libraries.
With the Book Driver book donation program, we help libraries by short-circuiting the heavy lifting and doing all the sorting, disposing and donating. This helps save costs for non-profits and libraries and allows Book Driver to generate cash for charities such as Red Cross, Project Rubikon, and many community development projects.
Book donors receive no tax benefit for donations. We are adding value to our community, generating cash for local charities and investing in young booksellers. However, if you need a write-off receipt, we aren’t the place.
You may try one of the following. Some are fee-based.
Volunteers of America – Denver
VOA offers free Denver book donations pickup and donations are tax deductible.
CP Colorado is a fee-based book donation service supporting non profits such as ARC Thrift Store. Tax deductible.
This is a free pickup service. Allow about 2 weeks to schedule.
Not in Denver? Check out our list of book donation pickup services by location.