Frequently Asked Questions
About
It is a platform to connect book donator with book requestor and vice versa.
Book donator posts an Ad for donating their old books. Book requestor visits donate-books.org website and sees the Ad about Book on donation and contacts the book donator to get the book
This platform is to enable everyone to easily donate/request/exchange their used books for further reading and sharing, rather than scrapping them. With this initiative, Donate Books Team think that atleast some benefit can be done towards nature and to society.
But, without your participation this cannot be achieved.
Donating Book
If you have some books, which you have finished reading and wanted to share or give away or just don't want to keep the book any more, you can simply create an Ad in donate-books.org website and let interested people contact you and you can then pass on the book to them.
You can do so in 2 ways.
Create/Submit an Ad about the book you want to donate, in donate-books.org website or drop the book in book drop box.
There are 3 ways for creating/submitting an Ad for book donation:
By Book Name
By Book ISBN
By Manual Form
- You can choose any one approach, from the 3.
- Read more related answers below for more details. If you still need any help, please reach us.
After you are logged in in the website:
- Click on Donate Book button, located in the Top of the website.
- Choose the option Submit by book name.
- Type the book name properly, in the empty box and click Continue button.
- If website finds matching book names, it can list upto 5 results.
- Click the button Donate this book for the book you wanted to donate.
After you are logged in in the website:
- Click on Donate Book button, located in the Top of the website.
- Choose the option Submit by book ISBN.
- Type the book's 10 digit or 13 digit ISBN properly, in the empty box and click Continue button.
- If wesbite finds matching ISBN, it can list upto 1 result.
- Click the button Donate this book for the book you wanted to donate.
If the other 2 approach does not work for you, then or otherwise you can try this approach.
After you are logged in in the website:
- Click on Donate Book button, located in the Top of the website.
- Choose the option Submit manually.
- Type the book name, book author name, in the empty box one after another.
- Select book language, book category and book sub-category one after another.
- Click the Continue button to submit the book information.
As a book donator, you have submitted book for donation. Now, you can wait for a book requestor to contact you and then you, pass over the book to him/her.
You can also look into requested books list and identify if any book requestor need your books.
To speed up your donation, you can share your book donation Ad in social media.
Requesting Book
If you want to read any books, for leisure or academic or otherwise, then you can visit the donate-books.org website and try to look if any book donator wants to donate such book and has posted such Ad, if so, you can contact them and request for the book. Else you can create a fresh book wanted request in the website.
You can do so in 2 ways.
Create/Submit an Ad about the book you wanted, in donate-books.org website or visit our book drop box location.
There are 3 ways for creating/submitting an Ad for book request/wanted:
By Book Name
By Book ISBN
By Manual Form
- You can choose any one approach, from the 3.
- Read more related answers below for more details. If you still need any help, please reach us.
After you are logged in in the website:
- Click on Request Book button, located in the Top of the website.
- Choose the option Submit by book name.
- Type the book name properly, in the empty box and click Continue button.
- If website finds matching book names, it can list upto 5 results.
- Click the button Request this book for the book you wanted to request.
After you are logged in in the website:
- Click on Request Book button, located in the Top of the website.
- Choose the option Submit by book ISBN.
- Type the book's 10 digit or 13 digit ISBN properly, in the empty box and click Continue button.
- If wesbite finds matching ISBN, it can list upto 1 result.
- Click the button Request this book for the book you wanted to request.
If the other 2 approach does not work for you, then or otherwise you can try this approach.
After you are logged in in the website:
- Click on Request Book button, located in the Top of the website.
- Choose the option Submit manually.
- Type the book name, book author name, in the empty box one after another.
- Select book language, book category and book sub-category one after another.
- Click the Continue button to submit the book information.
As a book requestor, you have submitted a book wanted/request Ad. You can now wait, for any book donator to contact you, and then you can communicate further to them, to get the book you wanted.
To speed up your request fulfillment, you can also share your Ad over social media.