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01-05-2009, 01:32 PM
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While I'm home over break, I'm doing a lot of cleaning for my parents and I'm pretty much down to a large pile of books in the garage. However, the big problem is that most are obsolete computer books from the days of Office 97 and other old titles of the sort.
Nobody will take the obsolete books, what can I do with them without throwing them out?
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01-05-2009, 01:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Newark, NJ | | | Tech manual bonfire! |
01-05-2009, 01:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: (M)a$$hole. | | | donate them to your local library. Just because they aren't up to date doesn't mean someone isn't still running those systems. At best they get on the racks. At worst, they will recycle them.
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01-05-2009, 01:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Ireland | | | the word obsolete pretty much says it all. Take them to be recycled is about as useful as you can make them.
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01-05-2009, 02:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Toronto, ON | | | prop up a wobbly table. My old, useless TV production textbooks kept my old bed from being just a matress on the floor back in the day...
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Originally Posted by PSPookie  This seems like the type of problem that will take care of itself, given time. | Quote:
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01-05-2009, 02:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Memphis,Tn | | | I've gone through and read some old computer books just as a whatever (very bored) kinda thing, but I actually learned some things about the architecture of the software in question.
It actually helped me learn that software's later releases on a much higher level.
Windows software is funny like that... more than one way to do things... layers upon layers of patches and improvements. |
01-05-2009, 02:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Seattle | | You can always use em out here...  |
01-05-2009, 02:13 PM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | | Yeah. I've got a stack too. I found an old Word Perfect book the other day. Remember that program? |
01-05-2009, 02:13 PM
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01-05-2009, 02:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Anaheim, Ca. | | | I also had a grunch of those obsolete computer text books... City of Anaheim was glad to take them off my hands.. they recycled the paper for profit, which helps keep the overall trash collection fees reasonable. |
01-05-2009, 02:28 PM
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Originally Posted by hover donate them to your local library. Just because they aren't up to date doesn't mean someone isn't still running those systems. At best they get on the racks. At worst, they will recycle them. | good idea,
but you could always just put them w/ the paper recycling. since most of those books are paperbacked should be acceptable. |
01-05-2009, 02:47 PM
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01-05-2009, 02:51 PM
|  | Friends, Romans, Bass Players... | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Spencer, MA, USA | | | Sell them on eBay. It's better than trashing them, even if you only get a couple of bucks for them.
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01-05-2009, 02:55 PM
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01-05-2009, 03:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Muusers fireplace, whipin yer bum, you could also eat it... | But, not in that order please... |
01-05-2009, 03:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Georynn But, not in that order please... | but if you do, put it on youtube  |
01-05-2009, 03:36 PM
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Originally Posted by theshadow2001 the word obsolete pretty much says it all. Take them to be recycled is about as useful as you can make them. | +1 |
01-05-2009, 03:53 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | Drop them in a recycle bin. Good for nothing but the paper value.
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01-05-2009, 03:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Chicago | | | recycle re-shmycle. Throw them in the TRASH. We need to get those land fills a fillin'. |
01-05-2009, 07:15 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Rochelle, Illinois | | They are worth nothing. My neighbors own a used book store and they told me that the most useless books they get are obsolete computer books. Libraries don't want them and they can't even give them away for free at the used book store.
And you can't even burn them as firewood unless you tear out the pages one by one and crumple them up. 
Recycle bin.
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