500K+
Pounds processed
Sorted by hand and kept out of the landfill.
★★★★★
5.0 from 35 reviews
Verified Google reviews from ABQ partners.
Weekly
Standing pickups
Weekly, monthly, or on-call — your cadence.
$0
Cost & no minimum
No fee, no contract, no paperwork.
What I haul off
Your Overflow and Unsellable Books
Your overflow and unsellable books — plus DVDs, CDs, vinyl, and magazines — in any condition. You don't sort it, box it, or clean it up. Set the overflow aside and I load it. Every item is hand-sorted: the small share with resale value funds the operation, readable books go to schools, care facilities, and Little Free Libraries, and only the truly unusable share is paper-recycled. Nothing goes to a landfill.
Books, Any Condition
Donations you can't shelve, stock that won't sell, water-damaged, written-in, outdated — all of it.
Media Too
DVDs, CDs, vinyl records, and magazines. If your media shelf has overflow, it goes in the same pickup.
Nothing Landfilled
Hand-sorted three ways — resale, donation, recycling. See exactly how in my three routing tracks.
Built for
What a Standing Pickup Saves You
The books you can't move are costing you labor, dumpster fees, and floor space every single week. A standing pickup takes all three off your plate.
Staff & volunteer hours
No more sorting, boxing, and hauling unsellable books out the back for disposal. Your people stay on the floor.
Dumpster space & fees
Books are heavy. Stop paying by the pound to throw them away — your dumpster goes back to holding trash.
Floor & back-room space
Your overflow corner clears out — and with a standing pickup, it stays clear. No pallets of dead inventory.
A landfill-free story
Something real for your donors, members, and board: your unsellable books are reused or recycled, never landfilled.
Three steps
How It Works
1
Text or call
Tell me roughly what you've got and how often it piles up. A photo helps but isn't required.
2
We set a cadence
Weekly, monthly, or on-call — whatever clears your overflow and keeps it clear. We adjust as your volume changes.
3
I show up, load, and go
No fee, no minimum, no paperwork. You get your space back; I take care of the rest.
Already a weekly partner
Organizations I Already Pick Up From
This isn't a pitch for something I might do — it's how I already operate around Albuquerque. I run a standing weekly book-overflow pickup for the Assistance League of Albuquerque thrift shop, and I route resident-estate and recycling overflow for La Vida Llena, the city's Life Plan retirement community. When one of these places fills a corner with books that won't sell, they text me and I clear it.
If your thrift store, Friends group, estate-sale company, or faith-based thrift has the same recurring problem, a standing pickup solves it the same way. No two partners are on the same schedule, and that's fine — I build the cadence around your volume.
Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Is book overflow removal really free?›
What's the catch — why would you take books for free?›
Is there a minimum quantity?›
What condition do the books need to be in?›
Do you take more than books?›
How often will you come?›
Can I give my members or board a landfill-free disposal story?›
How do I set up a standing pickup?›
New Mexico Literacy Project has been a fantastic partner for Assistance League of Albuquerque. We are a thrift store that sells donated books and a percentage of these we are unable to use. We are able to recycle these through Josh which saves us hours of sorting and disposing every week. And they do not go to a landfill. Josh is reliable and professional and the free pickup has been a huge help. It saves our volunteers from hauling boxes of books. He comes by, loads up, and we get our space back. No hassle and no minimum. I highly recommend Josh and the New Mexico Literacy Project.
Drowning in Books You Can't Sell?
Two boxes a week or a full pallet a month — I'll set up a standing pickup so your overflow corner clears out and stays clear. No fee, no minimum, no paperwork.
Josh Eldred, Owner · 5445 Edith Blvd NE, Unit A, Albuquerque NM 87107
NMLP is a for-profit New Mexico business; donations are not tax-deductible. · Cite: Eldred, Josh. "Free Book Overflow Removal for Albuquerque Businesses & Organizations." New Mexico Literacy Project, 2026. Licensed CC BY 4.0.