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Post by steveinpa on Jan 15, 2018 23:18:09 GMT
My wife and I both have an abundance of old textbooks from our college days. They are worth nothing. I am trying to figure out how to dispose of them. Any suggestions? Donating them to the library is not an option.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2018 0:13:55 GMT
My wife and I both have an abundance of old textbooks from our college days. They are worth nothing. I am trying to figure out how to dispose of them. Any suggestions? Donating them to the library is not an option. Do you ever have organisations raise funds by holding book expos? That's always a great way to get rid of them. Where I live we have at least one big one a year and several supermarkets have a trolley at the entrance where people just put books in for the event. I think Rotary hold one here (or used to). Perhaps they might be able to help or know of somewhere you could donate them.
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Post by MeandTK on Jan 16, 2018 0:24:53 GMT
If they are worth nothing, perhaps you could tear the pages outnd shred them for mulch.
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Post by Use Less on Jan 16, 2018 0:38:53 GMT
I saw someone crafting end and coffee tables by gluing books together in stacks. If you google, "table made of old books" a shocking number of pics, ideas and instructions show up. If you can figure out how to cut off the glue and thread binding, the pages can go as paper in the recycling box. There may very well be charities that send old but usable books, like poetry or literature collections, to needy schools or students abroad. Don't know how to access them, but a search might find somewhere.
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Post by feather on Jan 16, 2018 1:06:02 GMT
Tallpines , I've seen those! BIG BARF!!! (the 1961 version) About 5 years ago I was looking for places to sell or get rid of my college books. Let me tell you my experience. They need to be listed as 'wanted' and none of these are wanted. I looked up a bunch of them by ISBN (?) numbers and by titles and by authors. No luck. So, I have a serious suggestion. Take those thick text books and hollow out the middle, use them to hide cash or valuables. That is about the only useful thing I can say. I haven't done it yet, but I think it is the best suggestion. There aren't a lot of thieves that will want your text books.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2018 1:50:34 GMT
Save the history books, the older they are the better. Someone in the future might want to read a version that is closer to the reality than what they're presented with by those who write in the future. I found a lot of interesting details in my father's books that were skipped completely in those books that were my son's. But then you'd have to be sort of a history buff.
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Post by steveinpa on Jan 16, 2018 17:19:42 GMT
Just for reference, these are business and accounting books. Not the kind one reads for pleasure except to fall asleep. Regulations have changed so many times that they really are worthless.
I have a stack waist high and 3 wide. I don't have an outdoor furnace, am not crafty, and don't want to put any more than minimal effort into getting rid of them.
I don't want them going to the landfill and have been moving the stack since we moved into our house in 2002. It has grown like a cartoon snowball from just a few to its present size.
I need the space because my planned woodshop looks like an episode of Hoarders. I need to get working on building bee equipment not moving piles again. 😁
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Post by grannyg on Jan 16, 2018 17:25:47 GMT
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Post by hermitjohn on Jan 16, 2018 19:27:31 GMT
My college textbooks were at my Mom's house when she died. I just put them in auction with her household furnishings. Somebody bought them but then I saw them in auctioneer's dumpster. I guess somebody just wanted one book or something out of the box. Old texts have zero value. I mean really, who seriously wants to read old text books? Need to resell them while some professor is still using them for a class. Seemed like I always got ones on last use, next semester they had a new edition or something. hey they were smart enough even back in dinosaur days to change versions of texts so student had to buy NEW to maximize profits, but back then to sell used you either posted list on physical bulletin boards on campus, hoping some other student was looking for a bargain, or resold them for pittance to the university book store.
I was never that impressed with textbooks and avoided buying them anyway I could. You really only needed photocopies of the exercises at end of each chapter in big classes. The nicer profs would put a copy of the textbook on reserve in library. Some of small classes you needed to follow along sometimes in class so were forced to buy them. I wasnt only one doing the strategic photocopying. Got so the bookstore required you to show proof you dropped a class to return book for full refund before classes started.
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Post by Melissa on Jan 16, 2018 19:55:05 GMT
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