Elisabeth Abarbanel wrote a great post about what they do with books they weed at her library. Many of them are donated to Better World Books. Read her post for details. This could be a great volunteer project for kids and adults.
(Thanks to Buffy Hamilton for noting this on Facebook)
[...] to focus on skimming and skipping, with much more success than yesterday! I found a great post on Polly-Alida Farrington’s blog about what to do with weeded books. I started weeding Fiction before school was out and got about [...]
CNN article on Better World Books: Building better world a book at a time