Free book pickup in Clearwater, FL
We collect books, DVDs, CDs, audiobooks, cassettes and video games from homes and businesses across Clearwater and the rest of Pinellas County. We are in Clearwater every Monday. Thirty items is the minimum, and it costs you nothing.
How pickups work in Clearwater
We are in Clearwater every Monday
Clearwater is on the Monday Pinellas route. We run fixed weekly routes so several pickups in one area go on the same trip, which is a large part of how we keep pickup free. Send your request before Monday and you are usually on that week’s run.
Spring is our busiest stretch in Clearwater. We get a run of calls from people leaving for the season or leaving Florida for good, and books are always the last thing on the list. We can work to a departure date if you give us one.
Neighborhoods and areas we collect from
Countryside, Clearwater Beach, Island Estates, Sand Key, Morningside, Del Oro Groves, Skycrest, Feather Sound, Safety Harbor, Dunedin, and everywhere else inside Pinellas County.
ZIP codes covered: 33755, 33756, 33759, 33760, 33761, 33762, 33763, 33764, 33765, 33767
Give your books a second life
Books you have finished with in Clearwater do not get thrown in a skip. Every box is opened and sorted by hand by people who sell books for a living, which is how anything genuinely worth something gets spotted rather than binned. A great deal of the rest lands on the tables at our monthly community book sale, priced at a dollar so local people actually take it home.
That sale raises money for the Friends of South Holiday Library and the Friends of the Clearwater Library System. So a shelf you have cleared in Clearwater turns into cheap books for a neighbor and funding for a local library. That is the whole idea: contribute to community book sales that support libraries, rather than watching a lifetime of reading go out with the recycling.
Donate books in Clearwater
Looking for somewhere to donate books in Clearwater? You can have them collected free from your home every Monday once you have thirty or more, or bring any amount to our New Port Richey drop-off on State Road 54, weekdays 10am to 5pm. We collect donations from Countryside, Clearwater Beach, Island Estates and everywhere else in Clearwater, and DVDs, CDs, audiobooks and games are welcome alongside the books.
What we take in Clearwater
Yes
- Hardcovers and trade paperbacks
- Textbooks, any age
- Children's and teen books
- Ex-library copies and discards
- DVDs, music CDs, audiobooks on CD
- Cassette tapes, video games, board games and puzzles
No
- VHS tapes
- Mass-market paperbacks
- Anything moldy or water damaged
- Encyclopedia sets
- Magazines and newspapers
- Reader's Digest Condensed Books
Request a pickup in Clearwater
Two minutes, and you will hear back the same business day.
Clearwater questions
I am a snowbird leaving for the season. Can you come while I am away?
Yes, if you can arrange access. People leave boxes with the front desk, with a neighbor, or in a garage with a code. Put the arrangement in the notes box on the form and we will confirm it in writing before we come.
Does any of this benefit Clearwater libraries?
Yes. Our monthly MaxX Book Bonanza sale raises money for the Friends of the Clearwater Library System and the Friends of South Holiday Library, and we supply Little Free Libraries and Friends of the Library bookstores around the county.
Do you serve Dunedin and Safety Harbor?
Yes, along with Palm Harbor, Oldsmar and Tarpon Springs. All of Pinellas is inside our area.
My condo association has rules about vendors. Is that a problem?
Almost never. Tell us the building and we will call the office to find out what they need. We have dealt with most of the larger associations in the county at some point.
Ways we collect in Clearwater
Some jobs are their own thing. These have their own pages with the detail that matters for each.