Textbooks
>> Tuesday, April 28, 2009
What do you do with your no-longer-needed textbooks?
Me, I tend to keep them ... although I did clear some out today while I was reorganizing bookshelves... just not any from my university studies - it was some old and now pretty much obsolete computer texts that I finally managed to part with. From back when I did my diploma in Computer Programming.
My English texts are mostly keepers - at least for now... although I do seem to have multiple copies of some, so I could presumably thin those out a bit, I suppose. If it wasn't so gosh-darned expensive to mail books to the US I'd have a contest, maybe!
At least in English, they don't become obsolete! When I think of how much I paid for some of those computer texts... yikes!
I have kept the majority of mine. I got rid of the math and science text books from college, but the english, history, religion and other social science books are on my shelves.
Kelly
Well, when I was teaching I sometimes sold unused textbooks to booksellers who would visit my office frequently. When I retired, I donated most of my textbooks and research books to my department or students in my department. Even so, once I arrived here at my new home, I still found I had more academic books than I really had any need for.
I kept some, but ones I knew I would never look at again I sold on Amazon.com. Way better than what the college bookstore would buy them for!
I kept most of mine. Basic science doesn't change much
I used to love it when profs left copies of books they didn't need out for us at the college I went to ... found some real gems in the piles.
I've pretty much kept all of mine. I've been astonished, over the years, at how often they've actual been useful to me -- even the ones I thought I'd never touch again.