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 Many of them are tech books, some slightly out of date, some historical relics (pdp-11 era, for example).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.

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[flabosib.livejournal.com]

Our church has a big metal bin in the parking lot. For every pound of books put in the bin, the church gets a nickel. There are no limitations as to what condition the books need to be in or if they need to be current. I can email you the church address privately if you like.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

just books or all paper? (and if it's all paper, do hardcovers count or do they have to have the covers stripped off since they're cardboard?)

if it's all paper and the bin is general access, let me know, since one of my gripes with the franey road DPW yard is that the random-paper bin is only available during their business hours.