Turn Your Unwanted & Surplus Books Into Cash, Reducing Waste & Avoiding Landfill
We buy unwanted and surplus books from companies, councils, charities & individuals — keeping them in circulation and avoiding waste.
We Collect, Purchase & Redistribute Unwanted & Surplus Books
Whether it's a few boxes, an overflowing stockroom or an entire house full of books, we make clearing them simple and pay you for it.
We Help...
🏠 House clearance & removal companies
Avoid storage disposal costs and get paid for the books your clear, when you clear them
📚 Recycling Centres, Councils & Wholesalers
Avoid pulping costs, prevent landfill, earn income and beat your recycling targets
❤️ Charity shops & Second-hand bookshops
Never turn donations away again and turn surplus into additional income for your charity
Our Mission
Our mission is simple: to keep as many books as possible in circulation and extend their useful lives.
We find new homes and new uses for books that might otherwise be discarded, helping organisations clear valuable space while reducing unnecessary waste.
Where books still have value, we can often pay for them too.
It's better for your organisation, better for readers and better for the environment.
HOW WE HELP...
House clearance & removal companies
Books can be one of the most time-consuming parts of a house or industrial clearance.
They're heavy, difficult to value individually and properties can contain hundreds, even thousands of them.
LifeLong Books can work alongside your clearance team, assess books on-site and make an immediate offer for books we're able to purchase.
For larger collections, we may also be able to clear the entire collection, saving you the time, storage and expense of dealing with the remaining books yourself. We help with...
✅ House clearances
✅ Probate and estate clearances
✅ Downsizing
✅ Removal jobs
✅ Large private collections
✅ Boxes of unwanted books
✅ Regular surplus stock
✅ And more
HOW WE HELP...
Councils, Wholesalers & Clearance Houses
We work with councils dealing with properties, estates and unwanted household contents to provide a reuse-first route for book clearance.
For recurring requirements, we can discuss an ongoing collection arrangement covering multiple locations.
And we work with wholesalers to clear excess inventory, end-of-line stock, overstock, bublisher clearance, warehouse stock, mixed book lots and more.
HOW WE HELP...
Charity & Secondhand Book Shops
Donated books are great — until you run out of space and have to turn away donations.
LifeLong Books helps charity shops and second-hand bookshops deal with surplus books and duplicate stock while keeping books in circulation, instead of landfill.
We come to you on a regular basis, assess the books ourselves and make an offer for the books there and then.
We can even remove unwanted books at no additional cost.
More space, more income and less waste - and saying 'yes' to donations again.
HOW WE HELP...
Individuals
Whether you're moving house, downsizing, dealing with an inherited collection or simply reclaiming some space, we'd love to hear from you.
We're particularly interested in larger collections and bulk quantities of books.
Send us a few photographs and some information about the collection and we'll tell you whether we can help.
How It Works
1️⃣
Tell Us What You've Got
Get in contact and tell us what you have or are working with
2️⃣
We Come to You
We'll come to your site, houses or locations and assess your stock
3️⃣
We'll Make You an Offer
We'll make you an offer and you walk away with cash on the day
Every book we buy avoids 1.8kgs of CO₂
31.8M
Books rehomed in 2025
50,000
Tonnes CO₂e diverted
