Composting shabby old books?

What do people do?
There are about 200 million books sold in the UK each year. I am clearing out a relative's house, and there are thousands of books. Some reusable or recycleable. Some not.
I know that if I take books to say Oxfam (I wouldn't do anything for Oxfam for various reasons, but for an example with the largest chain) a good percentage of them will be driven across the country and pulped. Not very green.
I will take some to another charity.
I spent a few minutes feeding my copy of "Shunt" (500+ pages long and very tabloid James Hunt biography - it's the one with the 33 British Airways hostesses in the Tokyo Hilton over a fortnight) into the shredder whist doing something else, and it has made about 15 litres of "browns" for my compost bin.
(It needs a fairly robust shredder to be able to feed 20 or more pages in at once. Mine could not quite cope with the hard cover and whinged at that point.)
Time for booklovers to be a little utilitarian in the interest of reducing unnecessary shredded-paper miles?
F
There are about 200 million books sold in the UK each year. I am clearing out a relative's house, and there are thousands of books. Some reusable or recycleable. Some not.
I know that if I take books to say Oxfam (I wouldn't do anything for Oxfam for various reasons, but for an example with the largest chain) a good percentage of them will be driven across the country and pulped. Not very green.
I will take some to another charity.
I spent a few minutes feeding my copy of "Shunt" (500+ pages long and very tabloid James Hunt biography - it's the one with the 33 British Airways hostesses in the Tokyo Hilton over a fortnight) into the shredder whist doing something else, and it has made about 15 litres of "browns" for my compost bin.
(It needs a fairly robust shredder to be able to feed 20 or more pages in at once. Mine could not quite cope with the hard cover and whinged at that point.)
Time for booklovers to be a little utilitarian in the interest of reducing unnecessary shredded-paper miles?
F
“Rivers know this ... we will get there in the end.”
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I buy number of books every year, but have two or three or walls of them .. some two deep :-) .