Thank you very much for your patience with our limited capacity to accept donations. We are truly grateful to everyone who has books to donate and share with the community. Donation days generally coincide with our public openings. We also have a limited number of individual donation appointments available on other dates.
Donation hours are 9a-2p unless otherwise marked on:
- Sat, Sept 12
- Sat, Sept 26 from 1-3pm
- Sun, Oct 11
- Sat, Nov 14
- Sun, Dec 13
Please read the important information about hours and donation limits below, and check back because we will update this page if we are able to increase donation limits or expand donation hours.
- Book donation hours are 9am-2pm on the designated days, unless otherwise marked above.
- The book donation window is on the “front” side of our building, next to the garage door. The entrance line for browsing when we are open to the public is separate from book donations. If you see our mural, keep driving down Vineyard Lane!
- The donation limit is 7 boxes per family. Boxes must be small enough that one person can lift them when full.
- We accept all types of books except encyclopedia sets.
- We accept all types of popular and hobby magazines.
- These are the sorts of magazines that you can buy at a well-stocked newsstand or bookstore. With a few exceptions (such as The Economist and The New Yorker) they generally have a lot of photos and graphics.
- We can’t accept academic, technical, or professional journals/periodicals.
- We can’t accept law reviews, historical society magazines, literary journals, poetry quarterlies, or other such all-text, special-interest, by-subscription-only periodicals.
- September 2026: we are out of space for National Geographic magazines and would prefer you did not bring any at this time.
- Due to space limitations, we aren’t accepting media items at this time. Examples of media items include CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray discs, VHS tapes, LPs, audiobooks, computer games, audio cassettes, etc.
- If you have media or other items to give away, please be make sure they don’t get mixed in with your donation for TBT: we accept only books and popular/hobby magazines.
- We particularly welcome donations of classics, science topics, popular fiction, books for children and teens, genre fiction (sci-fi, fantasy, horror, mystery, etc.), and non-diet cookbooks. We’re finding it hard to keep these shelves restocked.
- Please don’t bring us books or magazines that are moldy, sticky, stinky, falling apart, or missing pages/covers. (Missing dust-jackets are not a problem.) Magazines must have their covers.
- If you need a tax receipt for your donation, please mention that right up front. We’ll need to count your books separately. Thanks in advance for your patience!
- Unfortunately, we can’t come pick up book donations.
- On dates when we have public open hours that correspond to the book donation hours: if we we have to cancel the public open hours that day, the book donation hours will also be canceled. In the event of extreme weather, please check our website for a possible cancellation before you leave home.
- Please don’t circumvent our quantity limit. It’s not there to annoy or to make things difficult, but because our volunteers are already stretched to capacity on donation days. If you have more than seven boxes of books that you wish to donate, please Contact us separately.
- If the scheduled donation days are truly impossible for you, please Contact us. We have a limited number of individual donation appointments available on other dates, and we will try to accommodate you if we can.
We can only accept book donations as outlined above. If you leave books outside of donation hours, you may be cited by the City for illegal dumping. Thank you for your understanding.
