About us
A local business built around books.
Ohio Book Pickup was started by [Placeholder Founder Name], a lifelong Cleveland-area reader who kept seeing the same story play out: a family sorting through decades of accumulated books after a downsize, a move, or a loss — with no good option for what to do with them.
Donation centers turn away large loads. Junk removal companies bill by the truckload and send books straight to landfill. Meanwhile, thousands of good books deserve to stay in someone's hands.
Our mission
Keep books in circulation, and take the weight off families.
We're independent, local, and book-and-media-focused — not a franchise and not general junk hauling. Every collection we pick up is sorted by hand so that as many books as possible end up back in circulation through resale, donation, literacy partners, and community reuse.
Our goal is simple: keep good books out of the landfill, and make the process of letting them go feel less like a burden and more like passing them on.
Local, independent, Northeast Ohio
Rooted in Cleveland.
We live and work in the same neighborhoods we serve. That means shorter drives, more flexible scheduling, and a real face and phone number behind every pickup.
Have 100+ books that need a good home?
100+ Books · Downsizing · Families · Estates