The BYOB Book Drive 2015 Round-Up
This year, Book Riot and the Harry Potter Alliance organized a day of book donations and meet-ups in honor of World Book Night, April 23, and what a night we had!
It's here, it's here! Make room on your shelves for charity at our #BYOBBookDrive TONIGHT: https://t.co/oXl28nWPdz pic.twitter.com/9BUl1G6TwC
— Book Riot (@BookRiot) April 23, 2015
Five amazing bookstores and one great bar agreed to be donation drop-off points and host a hang-out for booknerds in five cities: Chicago, IL; Richmond, VA; Washington, DC; New York City, NY; and Lexington, KY.
A dude with a cape just showed up, but he's NOT here for the #BYOBBookDrive. How?
— Josh Corman (@JoshACorman) April 23, 2015
Some events doubled down on the snacks, like Richmond:
All the attendees really took our challenge to clear out their bookshelves to heart.
On my way to #BYOBBookDrive with the NYC @BookRiot crew and I've got a bag o' books! pic.twitter.com/cLLso1MgEp
— Rachel Manwill (@rachelmanwill) April 23, 2015
And some were incredibly generous:
Someone just dropped this off sooo I feel like Chicago already won #BYOBBookDrive pic.twitter.com/TMxXEffNBq
— Rincey 🐯 (@rinceya) April 24, 2015
Yes, that is a SIGNED FIRST EDITION of The Bone Clocks. Commence drooling at will.
the Apparating Library in action #BYOBBookDrive pic.twitter.com/yUKtbklS1N
— jenn n (@jennIRL) April 23, 2015
The Apparating Library, in case you’re not familiar, is a roving library that appears only where Harry Potter Alliance folks are. Books are donated by event attendees, get cataloged, then traded and circulated amongst library donors. A few of the the BYOB events had full-on libraries; if you got one of those books, you can help track its journey here!
Our spokesperson @laurenthebird with the #BYOBBookDrive returns so far! Events are now starting around the U.S.! pic.twitter.com/jp9HJdN1t9
— The Harry Potter Alliance (@TheHPAlliance) April 23, 2015
Thank you so much to everyone who came out and donated books; between the five cities, we collected more than a thousand books (!!!) and donated to five different literacy charities.
Thank you to @BookRiot , @TheHPAlliance , & @UnabridgedBooks !!! #BYOBBookDrive pic.twitter.com/cCIJFWh6yN
— Open Books Stores (@openbookstores) April 24, 2015
And if you missed it, never fear. The Harry Potter Alliance is running their book drive, the Accio Books campaign, through June.
See you in 2016!
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