Pass your school books on, not into the bin.
Find what your child needs next year. Give away what they're done with. Free for everyone, no fees, no commission, direct contact.
A textbook doesn't have to die at the end of term.
Every book kept in circulation is one fewer printed, and one less in the bin, term after term.
Estimated from books listed on GreenShelf, roughly 1.2 kg of paper and 2.5 kg of CO₂e per textbook produced.
The books, right now
Free for everyone, and you don't need an account just to look.
Three simple steps, start to finish.
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Find a book
Filter by grade, subject, or condition. Find the exact textbook another family in Oman has on their shelf.
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Reach out
Message them on WhatsApp, call, or email directly, with no app inbox or middleman in between.
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Pick it up
Arrange a quick handover in a public place. The book gets a second life and your shelf gets a little space back.
A small idea, pointed at big goals.
GreenShelf is a local act of reuse that ladders up to three of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Quality Education
Lowering the cost of textbooks so the next student is never priced out of the books they need to learn.
Every child completing free, equitable, quality education.
GreenShelf keeps the cost of each new school year close to zero, so no student is priced out.
Responsible Consumption
Reuse over re-buy, by default, keeping good books in circulation instead of in a landfill.
Substantially reduce waste through prevention and reuse.
Every book passed on here is one not reprinted, repackaged, or sent to landfill.
Climate Action
Every reused book quietly avoids the carbon of printing, binding, and shipping a brand-new one.
Build education and awareness on climate action.
Skipping one reprint avoids the carbon of paper, ink, binding, and freight.
For schools and organisations
Run a school, a library, or a community group? GreenShelf is built for you too. Organise an end-of-term book drive, set up a shared drop-off point for families, or simply help more people in Oman find us.
We are building GreenShelf from Muscat, and we would genuinely love to work with people who care about the same thing.
Get in touch →Every June in Oman, perfectly good textbooks pile up in homes, and two streets away, a family is searching for that exact book. GreenShelf is the bridge.
Hitesh & Anshul, founders · Muscat, 2026
Sitting on a shelf of last year's books?
It takes two minutes to list one. Somewhere in Oman, a family is looking for exactly that book right now.