Books and media donation values

A hardback is the disagreement on this page. Three guides price it, and one high end sits well above the other two. The Salvation Army national list, undated, retrieved 2026-11-12, prints $1–$3⁷. Goodwill Industries International, dated January 12, 2011, prints $1–$3⁶. The list published at ccmaine.org on July 19, 2012 prints $1–$15⁵. The citation shows each label, and the wording is not the same. They stay three rows. A paperback is the same three lists, closer together: $1–$2¹⁰, $0.75–$2⁹, $0.50–$5⁸.

A CD is two lists and the same span on both. Salvation Army $2–$5². Goodwill Industries International $2–$5¹. A DVD matches the same way, $2–$5⁴ and $2–$5³. A record is Goodwill Industries International only, $1–$1¹¹, and that row is a point. Both ends are the figure the guide printed. The ccmaine.org list prices books and does not price these discs. The list published at tchabitat.org does not price this category.

Goodwill Northern New England is dated February 3, 2025. Its rows are not copied. Empty cells stay not listed. 30%¹³ of a price you type applies to an item that is not an item type. A record is an item type. The other guides do not inherit the one point the Goodwill Industries International list printed.

Condition is a book with writing in it, a missing disc, a case without the disc, a sleeve that is torn. The guides do not split those. Brand, for a book, would be the publisher or the title, and neither is a column. Age is not a column. A first printing and a book-club edition share the hardback row if you file both as hardbacks. The lists do not say which end is the collectible copy. Completeness is the disc and the case, or a volume that is one of a set. A set is not given a multiplier.

These types are household items. Publication 561 says You cannot take an income tax charitable contribution deduction for household items unless they are in good used condition or better.¹⁴ Household items include furniture, furnishings, electronics, appliances, linens, and similar items.¹⁵ names furnishings, electronics, appliances and linens, and then similar items. A book is in this catalog as a household type. A collection, the sort Publication 561 leaves out, is not an item type here. Household items do not include paintings, antiques, objects of art, jewelry, gems, and collections like stamp and coin collections.¹⁶ A shelf of ordinary paperbacks is not that sentence. A stamp collection is, and this calculator does not price one.

Donate with the calculator. A store may not want textbooks or opened media. That policy is not in the valuation list. Selling a single hardback privately is not priced here. surplus auction prices is government surplus, not a book price. Players and televisions are on Electronics and computers.

IRS rules for donated household items has the thresholds. donation value guides compared compares the lists. methodology is which numbers are allowed. sources has the terms notes.