Free book pickup in Tampa, FL
We collect books, DVDs, CDs, audiobooks, cassettes and video games from homes and businesses across Tampa and the rest of Hillsborough County. We are in Tampa every Wednesday. Thirty books is the minimum, and it costs you nothing.
How pickups work in Tampa
We are in Tampa every Wednesday
Tampa is on the Wednesday Hillsborough 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 Wednesday and you are usually on that week’s run.
Tampa is the longest run we make, so we cover the whole of Hillsborough on one fixed day. We are in Tampa every Wednesday. Get your request in before then and you are usually on that week's run rather than waiting.
Neighborhoods and areas we collect from
Hyde Park, Seminole Heights, Ybor City, Tampa Heights, Davis Islands, Palma Ceia, Carrollwood, Westchase, New Tampa, Channelside, Riverside Heights, Sulphur Springs, Temple Terrace, Town 'n' Country, and everywhere else inside Hillsborough County.
ZIP codes covered: 33602, 33603, 33604, 33605, 33606, 33609, 33611, 33612, 33614, 33616, 33617, 33618, 33619, 33624, 33625, 33626, 33629, 33634, 33635, 33647
Give your books a second life
Books you have finished with in Tampa 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 South Holiday Library and the Clearwater Library System. So a shelf you have cleared in Tampa 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.
What we take in Tampa
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 and video games
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 Tampa
Two minutes, and you will hear back the same business day.
Tampa questions
What day do you pick up in Tampa?
Wednesdays. All of Hillsborough County is on our Wednesday route. If your request reaches us before Tuesday you are usually on that week's run. If you have a hard deadline that Wednesday will miss, say so and we will see what we can do.
Can you pick up from a Tampa apartment or condo building?
Yes, and we do it constantly. Tell us the building and the floor. For towers with a loading dock we will arrange the freight elevator with building management directly.
Do you serve Temple Terrace and Town 'n' Country?
Yes, both, along with the rest of Hillsborough County. They fall on the same grouped Hillsborough run.