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  • About Us
    • 60+ Years of Friends
    • Board
    • Staff
    • Our Supporters
    • Financials
    • Blog >
      • History Series
    • Employment
    • Contact Us
    • Sign-Up for Newsletter
  • Support Us
    • Donate
    • Leadership Circle
    • Innovation Circle
    • Leave a Legacy Gift
    • The Pacifics
    • Gift of appreciated stock
    • Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD)
    • Other ways to give
    • Library Preservation Fund
  • Laureates
    • Laureates 2025
    • The Laureates Afterparty
  • What We Fund
  • Buy & Donate Books
    • Bookstore
    • Donate Books
  • Store
  • Events
  • Residencies
    • Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler Residency ​
    • James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Fellowship
  • Volunteer
  • West Portal Memorial Donation

Buy & Donate Books 

support the Library

Donate   Books 
​and  media

Donate your books and media to Friends!  Each year we receive nearly a million donated books, which we in turn resell to the public through our Friends Bookstores and book sales.  Your donation is tax-deductible and helps provide critical support to the San Francisco Public Library and Friends’ community programs.
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 Buy   Books
YEar-round 

​​Shop at our bookstores. 
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Friends Bookstores are located inside the Main Library and online. Each store stocks quality used books at great prices. 

Shop Online for specialty, rare and collectables at Ebay and Amazon.

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Join  us  at  Special 
​Book  Events 

Friends hosts amazing events throughout the year like pop-up book sales, comic book sales, weekly Step Sales at the Main and many more! 
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Environmentally  Friendly 

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The best way to recycle books and media is to put them to use in other ways. As the second largest used book seller in the city of San Francisco, we make sure your donations find new life in other homes. 

Our  bookselling  operation  is  a  green  reuse  program  diverting  550  tons  of  books  from  landfill  every  year  to  higher  and  better  uses  in  the  community.

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Donations  To
  the  Community


We also give books and media away to worthy community organizations. 

​ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES &
Donation center Location
1630 17TH STREET
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107

​Administrative Phone: (415) 626-7500
BOOK DONATION CENTER: (415) 522-8606 

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​Tax ID Number:
 94-6085452 
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