Tourism travel to the USA with books that will remain in the country

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is it necessary to declare customs?

Yes. You must declare everything that you will be leaving behind in the US.

Considering that I won't be getting any money out of those books and aren't gifts either, how should I go about declaring that?

Just list the items and their value. You don't have to declare whether they are gifts or why they will be staying in the US; you just have to declare that they will be staying in the US.

You do not need to calculate duty. The CBP officer will decide whether to calculate duty and will do it if so decided. If the value is under $100, there will be no duty because of the personal exemption, and even if the value is a little over, the officer may decide not to bother. (I also have a vague recollection of looking up the rate on books and finding that they are free of duty in most cases, which means, if it is true, that the officer certainly will not charge any duty.)

If I were you I would look now at the rules you'll need to be aware of for importing your household effects as an arriving immigrant. They probably won't apply to this importing of some books, but you might find something relevant.

As noted in the comments, this plan does seem risky. While there's nothing that absolutely forbids it, you might encounter a CBP officer who has difficulty reconciling your plan to immigrate in the future with the requirement that visitors lack intent to immigrate. In fact, you need only lack the intent to immigrate on that trip, but an unsympathetic or unimaginative officer could make your life rather difficult.

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