ways to ditch books, particularly tech books?

[rmd]

I have a bunch of books that are unlikely to be appropriate for goodwill, but might have uses besides holding up uneven table legs or being recycled. Many of them are tech books, some slightly out of date, some historical relics (pdp-11 era, for example).

Anyone have suggestions for disposing of them? If not, I'll probably just tear the covers off the hardcovers and send them off to the great paper recycling bin in the sky on franey road.

Comments

[unclebooboo.livejournal.com]

You haven't given a really complete description of what you've got, but most older technical books have little technical value. The exceptions would be stuff related to the very early (1950's and early 1960's) computers and scholarly books that are out of print and were originally printed in a short print run. Powells will buy stuff that they can resell, it doesn't sound like what you have is of much value.

I'd donate it to your local "Friends of the library" organization. They'll sell what they can and the rest will end up going to paper recycling or (horrors) the landfill.

[lil-brown-bat.livejournal.com]

I'd actually go further than that: if they're not useful to someone, then I wouldn't give them to the library either. Try freecycle, then recycle.