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What's Green and Read All Over?
The Great American Book Drive™
to benefit Open Books!
Are your bookshelves bursting at the seams?
Do you have books you'd like to donate to a good cause?
Open Books is making it easier than ever for gently used books to benefit others by presenting The Great American Book Drive™.
Let us find your used books a new home! A large percent of the profits from their sale will fund reading programs in the local Chicago community. It's about literacy, not landfill.
Sunday, October 26
10 am - 4 pm
213 W. Institute Place
Chicago, IL 60610
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COME TO THE EVENT
This will be a drive-through book drive event! You can donate books without even getting out of your car, so collect a bunch from your family and friends. Our volunteers will unload your books and process your donation while you wait. Just head to our River North location and look for the signs. It's that easy.
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HAVE YOUR BOOKS PICKED UP
Zipcar, an official sponsor of the Great American Book Drive™, will be sending a fleet of Zipcars out into the Chicago area to pick up books from your home.
Update (October 20): All our pickup slots are now full, but if you have books to donate, we hope you'll consider bringing them to the event!
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VOLUNTEER
We will need lots of help to make this a smooth and successful book drive! We are looking for people to help us unload books, sort books, box books, be human signage arrows, be greeters and much more.
Update (October 22): All our volunteer slots are now full, but if you have books to donate, we hope you'll consider bringing them to the event!
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SPREAD THE WORD
Do you have a blog, Web site, MySpace profile, or other online home? Add a Great American Book Drive™ banner or button! We've got lots of shapes and sizes to choose from.
Know of a coffee shop, community center, store, library, bulletin board, or other place where like-minded bookworms might visit? Download some flyers or a stack of cards, print them out, and post them around town!
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