I am blessed to be around readers. People who love books. We recommend authors to each other and
sometimes there is the payoff of discovery – the discovery of something wonderful. We tell each other what we like and what we
believe others may like too. We are fans
of our libraries and funky used book stores and, on occasion we’ll wander
through a Barns & Noble, which appears to be the only big brick and mortar
book store left these days. We have
accounts on Amazon for our Kindle apps and e-readers. We have access to e-books from other sources
as well. We read or we listen to
stories. We are fans.
Perhaps you too are such a fan? If so then lend me your ears…
This week one of my reading friends asked me if I had
heard of a website called Better World
Books (http://www.betterworldbooks.com/). She said that it was an online used bookstore
where you could find great stuff cheap AND, she went on to tell me, “The best
part is that for every book you buy – they donate a book somewhere else in the
world.” This is a great idea. This is a great concept. There are books who are looking for readers
and there are people out there who don’t usually have access to books who,
through this site, now have access to them – worldwide. It’s easy to take a thing like literacy or
being able to pick up a book from a library or bookstore for granted. There are places and places not necessarily too
far away where this is the norm and not the exception. You can help shrink those barriers.
There are bins all over the place to donate your used
books – see here: http://www.betterworldbooks.com/go/donate
and if you don’t want to do that you can have labels sent to your domicile to
mail them away yourself. They even
accept textbooks.
So by getting books through Better World Books makes the
world a better place. It’s a
win-win. You get the books you’re
looking for (really – it’s an exhaustive selection), promote literacy, and get
books into the hands of people who wouldn’t have them otherwise. That’s a good thing all the way around the
horn.
Spread the love.
Let other readers know. Here’s
their Facebook page too: https://www.facebook.com/betterworldbooks.
Thank you, Gentle Reader.
Keep on readin’.
