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Books to Benefit appreciates contributions of books from our community and asks that donors follow these guidelines when donating books so that we may remain efficient and serve the community well.

Donated materials must be in saleable condition, not falling apart, water damaged, harboring odors, having underlined pages, or otherwise abused. We respectfully request that donors sort their books before donating them. Unsaleable items soon fill up recycle bins, and Books to Benefit must pay for those bins to be hauled away.

Please call us if you have any questions about your donation. If you have a very large donation, we would appreciate advance notice, as well.

If you're unsure whether we can accept a particular item, please call us at  309-531-8320.

WE HAPPILY ACCEPT

• Clean and readable books
• (Modern Novels after 2000 only)
• DVDs (no home-made)
• (No CDs, cassettes, VHS tapes)
• Children’s Books (all types)
• Graphic Novels
• Blank Journals (unused)
• Books about Learning a Foreign Language
• Books about Other Countries
• Audio Books (complete, CD/DVD format only)

WE CANNOT ACCEPT

• Damaged books—bad spines, taped, water stained, smelly, underlined, missing pages/covers
• CDs, Cassettes, VHS tapes, Vinyl Records
• Magazines (any type) & professional journals
• Art Works and Sheet Music
• **Books in a Foreign Language
• Travel Guide Books
• High School or College Yearbooks
• Encyclopedias
• Family Photograph Albums
• Textbooks
• Business books
• Education books
• Books on Parenting
• Reader’s Digest Condensed Books
• Unbound Maps and Modern Road Atlases
• Bound Federal and State Census Records
• Household Items
• Toys, Puzzles, Flash Cards
• Games (including computer games)
• Greeting Cards/Postcards/Stationery/Calendars
• **Religious Materials such as group studies, training manuals for pastors, congregation building, Sunday School materials, family Bibles, counseling guides, large tome sets

** With the exception of truly old and valuable works, largely published prior to the 20 th century