Not All “Books For Charity” Go To Charity

For-profit book recycler behind popular donation program sells many of the books received.

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Excerpt from story: The bins worry Cady because he helps run Prescott Library’s used bookshop. It raises thousands of dollars for library programs by selling donated books. Like many Friends of Library groups around the country, Cady worries the bins are siphoning off donations that normally would come to them.