Portland Books Through Bars

Tomorrow is Independent Bookstore Day and kicks off our full week of celebrating local, independent bookstores.

How does Indie Bookstore Week work & how can you participate?

1. Buy a book to donate forward to Portland Books Through Bars from the four participating bookstores between Saturday, April 25 - Saturday, May 2

2. For every book purchased at these bookstores, the cost will ALSO be matched as a donation to Portland Books Through Bars for the whole week!

Participating Bookstores:





Featured here are displays set up at Always Here Bookstore and Belmont Books, we're so excited to turn out for support this week!

See you out there, readers of Portland 📖

If there is one thing about us, it's that we LOVE our local independent bookstores.

The PDX Books Through Bars Indie Bookstore Week is back, where we show support for our local shops and help get quality books to our community of incarcerated readers.

In this book drive, you will choose a title from the wishlist OR genre shelves at the four participating bookstores and purchase that book to donate forward, aiding the PDX BTB library needs!

Not in Portland? You can ALSO support us by purchasing from our Bookshop.org wishlist, where a percentage of purchases will go to support the strike fund 🖤

From April 25 - May 2, visit Always Here Bookstore, Belmont Books, Third Eye Books, and Wallace Books to participate and every purchased title you donate to Books Through Bars will be MATCHED with a financial donation 🙌🏼

AIDNW walked in to visit our partners at requesting donations and their bookseller, Brooke, immediately put the organizers in direct contact with our team.

Within a week we had a scheduled call set up and were working on our collaboration: to get quality books to people being detained by ICE at the Tacoma Northwest Detention Camp.

The literary materials needed and requested are incredibly specific, and we want to meet the need exactly as asked - so we are only accepting book donations through our Bookshop.org wishlist.

Our resident librarian and Board Member has been working directly with the AIDNW team to set the wishlist, diligently researching titles and publications to especially avoid AI-generated "translations" for the novels that have been requested starting with the following languages: Farsi, Punjabi, Spanish, Vietnamese, Kazakh, and Hindi.

When you buy a title through our wishlist, your purchase will be delivered directly to our Books Through Bars team for processing and we will orchestrate hand off to the AIDNW team for delivery

AND

10% of every sale through our affiliate page will also go to the Strike Fund, to aid Local 5 members in the event of a strike.

None of this would have ever been possible if it wasn’t for the sustained support we receive from indie bookstores and our community members in Portland!

f**k ice!!!