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What did you do with your college books?

gaidensensei

gaidensensei

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I just realized I kept stacks of books I barely ever re-used for reference, just keeping space... C++, Microbio, physics, calculus 2/3, organic&chem etc.

Probably can't sell cause they are several years and editions out of date.

Do any of you guys actually hang it up in your office shelves?
 
Mine are sitting in storage containers. I can't throw away books, and I wasn't going to sell them back to the bookstore for $15 each (or less) after I paid $100+ for them.
 
I sold some on half.com, some at used bookstores and, kept some. I'd rather burn them than EVER sell them back to the vampires at the end of each semester.
 
I sold all of my grad school books to Amazon. Some of them were out of date and Amazon still paid a good price for them.
 
I've sold them immediately for ~80% of original price (on craigslist, not college bookstore), and then when I finished college I bought some of them back for ~20% of original price. Take that book publishers with your annual "revisions"!
 
Didn't really buy any.

"Hey man, let me borrow your book to do the homework and you can copy my answers."

Worked out for me and my bank account.
 
I wanted to sell them, but they get outdated so fast, so I never ended up finding a place that would take them. Even the college's next year program was using the newer editions of the books, or entirely new books.

So they all went in the recycling a couple years later. It felt wrong to carry the recycle bin to the street knowing it had paper in it that was worth like 5k only a few years before, but by then it was worth nothing.
 
Hmm, I need to pick up the ones I didn't sell next time I go to my parents house. Although they're now 2-3 years old, probably only worth the paper recycling money.
 
Spikesoldier said:
buy from half.com

sell on half.com

sometimes my books will appreciate in value after a term.
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Same here. For the most part, I paid about $10 net for each book. I got burned twice though, as the books just went out of print and had a new edition... what a ripoff.
 
Kept them. Think I sold less than 5 over my 4 years there. Got half or 2/3 back.

Rest are on ym bookshelf. The way I see it, I blew near $40k in tuition. What's another $3k-4k in paper I get to decorate my room with?
 
Sold as many of the large textbooks as I could. Threw away the rest. Wasn't practical to try to ship them back when they werent worth very much anyways
 
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