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What do I do with a stack of old college books?

XenoXeno Registered User regular
edited May 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
Basically, I went into accounting in college for 2 years, but dropped out. That was around 4 years ago. During my 2 year term, I bought A LOT of accounting books. (Every course needed a new fucking book). Atleast a $1000 worth. The sad part is that a lot of this shit I cant sell back. Those fuckers keep getting brand new "editions" so they most of the time refuse to buy back old books.

I tried selling them in school but no one wants to buy them. All the teachers are strongly recommending the 2009 books or whatever. So anyways, I have given up selling these books back. Whats my options here? Go to the landfill and chuck them out? Seems kinda sad. A lot of these books are in beautiful condition and I doubt that the information in them is so outdated that it can't be used anymore.

What do you guys think?

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  • musanmanmusanman Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    uh I'm a high school math teacher, if you have any math or stats books you can mail them to me? I'll put them in my class?

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  • JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    i have the same situation myself (minus the drop out part).

    A library might accept them as a donation... other than that... I was going to look into seeing if they could be recycled.

    I hate throwing away hundred dollar books that are basically brand new.

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  • BurnageBurnage Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Second-hand book shops will buy pretty much anything - it'll be at a horribly reduced rate, but it'll be something, and that's better than just throwing them away.

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  • Post BluePost Blue Redmond, WARegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    This is one of many reasons why I appreciate those professors who distribute their own spiral-bound compilations for nearly nothing. We need more of them on our side.

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  • MagicToasterMagicToaster JapanRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Give them away?

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  • Cyd CycloneCyd Cyclone Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Burnage wrote: »
    Second-hand book shops will buy pretty much anything - it'll be at a horribly reduced rate, but it'll be something, and that's better than just throwing them away.

    This statement is not necessarily true. At the bookstore I work at, we only take the last publication year, because it's too hard to sell them beyond that, and there's a major university, a couple of colleges, and a bunch of religious schools in town.

    Essentially, textbooks are a lost investment outside of classes that use regularly publish books (like English) as textbooks.

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  • BurnageBurnage Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Cyd Cyclone wrote: »
    Burnage wrote: »
    Second-hand book shops will buy pretty much anything - it'll be at a horribly reduced rate, but it'll be something, and that's better than just throwing them away.

    This statement is not necessarily true. At the bookstore I work at, we only take the last publication year, because it's too hard to sell them beyond that, and there's a major university, a couple of colleges, and a bunch of religious schools in town.

    Yeah, I should refine that statement. Some second-hand book shops will buy pretty much anything, the trick is finding them.

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