What to do with old textbooks? College

[duragezic]

Only sell them online or through the campus paper. Never sell back to the on campus vampires at the end of the semester. Many used book stores will take used text books. I kept a number of textbooks. I believe the format of information in books is vastly superior to online forms because the online info is rarely a direct copy or PDF of the book. But, I am a hopeless bookworm.

Haha yeah I learned that. After my first semester of university, I went to sell back my Differential Equations to the on campus vampires. They scan it and say "$5".... . Of course I was a jones so I still took it and I didn't ever need it again. I had bought it online for maybe $60 but still it was one of the biggest losses I took.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I wish I had sold my engineering books when they were worth something. Now theyre probably two editions old and worthless. Maybe I'll donate them to a library or something.

Donate them to a library, or just toss them out. As said as it is, I ended up just throwing tons of barely used textbooks out because I could not find a single person/place to take them. Such is the textbook industry; put out a new edition each year so that the previous year's edition is worth half as much, and any year prior is essentially a paperweight.

Donate them to a local library. Monetarily, non-current edition textbooks are worthless.

Do NONE of you frequent used book stores? Every city I've ever lived in had multiple used book stores that would take used textbooks if only for store credit.

 

[blinblue]

Donate to Goodwill/Salvation Army if a library won't take them.
And when you say they are worthless on Amazon, do you mean there are 20 listings at $.01 each? Or something like $3-$5. Because once you get over a couple bucks you can make a small profit by selling them (you can ship books dirt cheap using the postal service's Media Mail).

Also, check the item on camelcamelcamel.com to see its price history. Depending on the item the value might change drastically depending on time of year. So it may be worthless now, but come August, they might go up to $10-$15 (or whatever). Then again, it might truly be worthless as well

Honestly, if you have no immediate use for any of them, just get rid of them. No sense filling up your house with useless and worthless crap. If you need them later you can always buy them for $.01 on amazon