Pages for Prisoners... intrigues me

Got extra books around the house and don't want to sell them to a resale shop?
Help a prisoner better themselves.

I found a great reason to clean off my book shelf!
http://www.pagestoprisoners.org/donate

What They Don't Need

• Romance Novels
• Popular Fiction geared only to a female audience (the majority of the people who request books from our project are men)
• Books about popular culture that are older than 10-15 years old
• Reader's Digest condensed versions of books
• "Gift" books
• Very advanced/specialized textbooks or other academic books
• Multivolume Encyclopedias
• Books for young children
• Travel guidebooks
• True crime (many facilities prohibit these books)
• GRE test prep books
• Legal theory books, property, business law

Note: As many prisons and jails prohibit hardcover books, they are much less useful to our project than paperback ones.

What They Always Need

These are books that are often requested but not often donated.

• New or like new books
• Mystery/thriller/suspense/horror/adventure
• Sci-fi/Fantasy
• Westerns
• African-American studies or fiction with African-American characters
• "Life skills" - personal finance, job skills, etc.
• Entrepreneurship/Real Estate/Small Business
• Spanish language books
• Technical and Vocational Skills (carpentr, auto mechanics, electronics, HVAC, etc.)
• Basic high school level textbooks for math and science
• Criminal and civil-rights law books, criminal case law, self-help legal books
• GED test prep books

There's a drop off location in Bloomington called Box Car Books (.com).
Let me know if you want to participate. I'm thinking of a creating great event for AIGA Indy to partner with the com

Publish Post

munity. God knows designers have tons of books they've collected that aren't necessarily something they do much with anymore...

That is all. The spirit of the season is finally settling into my soul for a stay :-)
Cait