I mean, this could be fun & all but does it actually get at literacy needs? There are tons of children in need of books who don’t have access to them easily. You could donate books specifically in your community to an organization that stands the best chance of getting them into the hands of kids.

My kid’s elementary school would collect books annually (for all ages) then send boxes & boxes of them out to our very remote communities (Alaska) where there are no public libraries & schools have 25-50 total K-12 students (so even schools aren’t well stocked).

One community put all the incoming books into a “little free library” in the small heated & electrified building at their airstrip (calling it an airport would be wildly exaggerated). The building was open for once daily flights so there were always chances to get your books.

Another community put theirs at their laundromat building (no running water to homes so everyone went there to fill drinking water jugs, wash clothes, & take showers).

In a larger town, are there little free libraries where foster kids have visits with parents? At the unsheltered youth center? At the local DV shelter? What about at your local low-income health center or Head Start? Or even little free libraries at playgrounds & bus stops?

For awhile I would collect books from our transfer stations (eg thrown out with the trash) & sort & distribute them in this way. Don’t just dump a bunch of old textbooks on a nonprofit!

If you don’t know where to donate books, contact your local literacy council. They often have a lead on who in the community could benefit, often have their own free books, &/or may run the only remaining used book store in your town where kids’ books are 50 cents.

tell me more about your convictions on this matter?

Dang is there a hot mess of racist behavior going on in this post. Please delete these people. They are grossly ignorant of centuries of history and should probably just go back where they or their ancestors came from, whichever continent that was besides the Americas.

Says who? The proper word for any people is the word they want used for themselves.

That varies across the land.

Here in Alaska, the “indigenous” people refer to themselves as “tribes” and the term here is Alaska Native when distinguishing from the non-indigenous settler colonists of any other origin. Someone born in Alaska is a native Alaskan; someone belonging to our indigenous groups is Alaska Native.

The people here identify themselves by their own tribes/villages/regions which roughly correlate to unique language groups or to geographic features. The proper term is provided by the person/group.

White people call the Interior Alaska people “Athabascan” while the people themselves call themselves “Dine” or “Koyukon” or “Tanaina” and so forth.

When they want to draw attention to themselves as one group with common interests with other groups across the world, they may say Indigenous or First Nations or American Indian/Alaska Native. Generally, I follow whatever conventions are given to me by the person in front of me.