Browsing for books online and getting the cheapest deal is as satisfying as plucking that last cherry left on a particularly creamy cake. Now make that — getting the cheapest book deal which, by the click of a button, donates to a good cause, too. That, you’d agree, is what having your cake and eating it too would be all about.

Keeping food-related similes aside, that is exactly what the 25 year-old Canada-based Aman Bamra is doing. While you read this, children in government schools in Mumbai, Delhi — even Uttarakhand for that matter — would have received copies of books such as Peacock and Pakoras and Curly and Straight (published by Pratham Books) thanks to book lovers who logged on to Bamra’s website, Books With Purpose (.org)