What to do with obsolete computer books?

Tech manual bonfire!

 

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.

 

the word obsolete pretty much says it all. Take them to be recycled is about as useful as you can make them.

 

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...

 

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.

 

You can always use em out here...

 

Yeah. I've got a stack too. I found an old Word Perfect book the other day. Remember that program?

 

Fireplace Starters

 

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.

 

good idea,

but you could always just put them w/ the paper recycling. since most of those books are paperbacked should be acceptable.

 

fireplace, whipin yer bum, you could also eat it...

 

Sell them on eBay. It's better than trashing them, even if you only get a couple of bucks for them.

 

But, not in that order please...

 

but if you do, put it on youtube

 

+1

 

Drop them in a recycle bin. Good for nothing but the paper value.

 

recycle re-shmycle. Throw them in the TRASH. We need to get those land fills a fillin'.

 

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.