New Craze Sweeps World!!

[Oudeis]

This new craze is....READING!

I hear from a reliable source that second hand books are too costly.

To get right down to the idea...

Why not have a wish list of books?

This could be done within the forum if you had books you wished to take to a charity shop you could mention what they are here first?
OR
This wish list could be added to your profile.

Why not?

[fortinian]

It depends where you buy them. 'Charity Shop' is no longer a catch-all-term. High-street Charity Shops (Oxfam, British Heart Foundation etc...) usually have paid staff, managers etc... and their prices are correspondingly high.

Smaller independent shops who are not supporting a national charity have volunteer staff who do it for the love of it. They are lovely, messy, browsable and cheap. Get down there and support your local independent charities.

http://hospice-africa.merseyside.org/

http://www.jospice.org.uk/

even the Williamson Tunnels has a small charity shop open.

They are there if you look for them!