Release

Do you have shelves or boxes full of dusty books that are no longer in use? Go ahead and simplify! Below are some suggestions for freeing your unused materials. 

Donate: You may have finished with a particular book or video, but it may still serve to help another. Does your church have a library that could use the copy? Will it add to the growing collection at the Church Media Center? We are happy to take donations of gently-used material. E-mail us at for more information.

Annie's Book Stop: Annie's has been America's leading pre-read book store since its beginning in the early 1970s. The original Annie, Anne Landry, started swapping and selling paperbacks in a small store she opened in Westborough, Massachusetts. So many customers liked the idea so much that before long Anne was in the franchising business. Soon there were franchises throughout the New England states, and eventually as far as Florida and California. Although most Annie's offer a wide variety of new books and related items, the backbone of the business is pre-read, half-priced paperbacks traded-in for credit by customers. When you bring in your pre-read books in good condition to an Annie's, you will receive credit that you can use toward the purchase of other pre-read books at that store. While the exact amount of credit may vary slightly from store to store, it usually is about 1/6 of the original selling price of the book. Thus, in most Annie's, a $5.99 paperback is worth one dollar in credit. If you buy another $5.99 paperback for cash, it will cost you $2.99 at Annie's. You can apply the $1.00 credit for the book you traded in for a net cost of $1.99 for you! Then, when you finish reading your new book, you can return it and get another dollar in credit for it. This system makes reading fun and affordable! 

Visit Annie's Store Directory to find an Annie's Book Stop near you.

Bookcrossing.com: What is BookCrossing, you ask? It's a global book club that crosses time and space. It's a reading group that knows no geographical boundaries. Do you like free books? How about free book clubs? The books members leave in the wild are free... but it's the act of freeing books that points to the heart of BookCrossing. Book trading has never been more exciting, more serendipitous, than with BookCrossing. It is a book exchange of infinite proportion, the first and only of its kind. At BookCrossing.com you'll find tens of thousands of book reviews, book ratings, and book recommendations, because each time a book changes hands, members can leave journal entries telling the world of their experiences. 

You know the feeling you get after reading a book that speaks to you, that touches your life, a feeling that you want to share it with someone else? BookCrossing.com gives you a simple way to share books with the world, and follow their paths forevermore!

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