Journal
Four Reasons Why You Need Secondhand Books in Your Life
You buy a new book, crack open its spine and take a whiff. Ahh, it’s that ‘new book’ smell that you and everyone else loves. The smell of words waiting to leap out of their pages and into your mind...
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Giving Old Books New Lives: My Book Donation Journey
A couple of years ago, I rejected the idea of giving away my books. It’s not because I was selfish or miserly. I just couldn’t bear to part with my books! I was also a cash-strapped student gratefu...
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Our goal has always been to help you save more. With Buy Now, Mail Later (BNML) option, you can now reserve books and have all your orders mail out together once you’ve accumulated a total of $25 o...
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It started with 3 boxes of books, a dusty corner in my grandfather’s spare room, and a few early customers who liked what we do. We were small — but cheap and cheerful. As we got more confident in...
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Same Same, But Different After reading Nobel Prize Laureate, Mohammad Yunnus’ book — Banker To The Poor (a little later than I should) I became obsessed with the idea of generating our own money...
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Schools are more than a place to learn. For girls in Shree Kalidevi Secondary School, it’s a place where they can feel safe. But it hasn’t always been this way until Ojashwi helped set up the Powe...
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Readers Raised $1174.27 For Education
Every purchase on Books Beyond Borders has a purpose. Thanks to you — we’ve raised a total of 1174.27 SGD in profits and direct donations in Q2 to improve education in rural Nepal. What do we me...
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Every day is a chance to learn something new — and a day we don’t is one that we’ll never get back. The pandemic has kept nearly 10 million students out of classrooms today, and we see teachers ar...
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Today, we are opening the hood. As the first step toward building an 'open book' business (no pun-intended!), we have published all our quarterly profit & loss statements as well every cha...
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Last month, Books Beyond Borders celebrated it’s 2nd birthday. Looking back, a lot has changed — from our business model to the tools we use today. I still remember when we designed our first logo...
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