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There's a particular kind of dread that comes from standing in someone's basement, looking at two thousand books, and hearing: "We just need to get rid of them. We don't know what to do." We do. That's exactly why we're there. Bay State Book Company travels throughout Massachusetts picking up donated books from homes, libraries, colleges, universities, and organizations of every kind. It's free. We load the books, we haul them out, and we make sure they end up somewhere usefu

Summer is finally here in New England. Schools are letting out, everyone is grabbing their Del’s (or whatever frozen treat people outside of Rhode Island drink), and heading toward any body of water that looks even slightly swimmable. In Rhode Island, that usually means East Matunuck, where the waves show up like they’ve got something to prove and immediately knock your flip-flops into another timezone. In Massachusetts, it might be a ferry out to Martha’s Vineyard, where the

Every library reaches that moment. Shelves are packed tighter than they should be. Older editions are collecting dust next to outdated journals. A renovation is coming, or a collection audit is long overdue. The books need to go, and they need to go soon. The question that usually follows is, "Now what?" For college and university libraries across New England and New York, Bay State Book Company offers a simple, flexible, and completely free answer to that question. Whether y

Picture this: you doze off to sleep on a quiet Sunday night with snow softly falling all around your house. You wake up and peek out the window just as the sun begins to rise, and you can barely see outside. The snow is sticking to the screen, completely blocking any sight beyond it. When you finally manage to get a clear view, you see that the snow has piled up heavily. Whiteout conditions stretch in front of you, wind whipping across the yard, and more still to come. For mi