I'm clearing out to prepare for a move, and I have a big stack of about 50 or so college textbooks from all genres. Do places like Adams or Hillsborough St. take books that are around 4-5 years old? If not, where could I get rid of these? Honestly it's either somewhere for 50 cents or a dumpster.

2/17/2007 5:22:49 PM

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2/17/2007 5:24:18 PM

You are God... if you don't know, what hope is there for us?

http://www.amazon.com

You will get a lot more than from any physical bookstore.

2/17/2007 5:30:07 PM

http://www.half.com

2/17/2007 5:55:50 PM

college bookstores won't give you shit I would use an online textbook buyer

ive used: http://cash4books.net/?gclid=CMDnipbBtooCFRuxgAodwDkBQA
http://www.booksintocash.com/
http://buyback.collegebooksdirect.com/default.jsp

Also I took several boxes of old books that even those links wouldn't take to Readers Corner and got like another sixty bucks.

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2/17/2007 6:01:53 PM

Yes, HBST will take old books. I dropped off ten or so a couple of weeks ago - didn't get any $, but IMO it was better than the trash. You can try to sell them, but if they have no value and you leave them HBST distributes them to charities for literacy programs I think.

2/17/2007 11:01:53 PM

The chinchillas really like to chew on textbooks, I might take some as chew toys.

2/17/2007 11:04:38 PM

I know on my campus there is a dropoff to donate Better World Books. There might be somewhere on state's campus to donate them.


http://www.betterworldbooks.com/

2/17/2007 11:10:10 PM

i have some older editions of college textbooks, and i think i'm gonna take them to Readers Corner. if they won't buy em back, i can at least leave them on their outside shelves (25/50 cents/1 dollar books, the money goes to a charity).

2/18/2007 1:56:31 AM

try Readers Corner.

might give you a few bucks.

might not.

or maybe Goodwill.

2/18/2007 2:10:20 AM

Donate them to goodwill and claim what they were/are worth when you bought them. $150 tax credit per engineering book

2/18/2007 11:06:02 AM

if you don't sell them on either half.com or amazon you are a fool

2/18/2007 12:24:05 PM

Amazon.com always worked for me

2/18/2007 12:27:54 PM

I have sold several old editions of law books on half.com.

2/18/2007 12:32:21 PM

bonfire

2/18/2007 1:27:30 PM

If you are just looking to get rid of them, do a Google search of "sell textbooks". I think I got $20 for getting rid of 15 books that would have otherwise gone in the trash. Shipping is paid for by them as well.

2/18/2007 2:08:47 PM

I apparently sold my last batch for too cheap, because after shipping and buying packaging to ship it in, I ended up either just breaking even or losing money. so it might not even be worth it to sell them if you're only going to get a couple bucks.

2/18/2007 6:48:04 PM

I finally threw away most of mine...all of them were in the bottom of my old room at my parents, and while I was home for xmas I decided one day to toss most of them. My dad did keep a couple though.

I had notebooks all the way back to HS in that closet. I had a bunch of HW etc, I think I just threw the stuff in there when I got home from school back in the day. I did keep all the reports I did so I can show people at one time I could write pretty good!(some reason I kept all the reports I did from HS through college)



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2/18/2007 9:22:26 PM

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"because after shipping and buying packaging to ship it in"

???. I nabbed a 20lb paper box and threw them in there. Shipping label is printed by them (can't for the life of me remember who I did mine through ... will look later and post...). I think I paid for the Packing Tape and Gas to get to the post office.

2/19/2007 6:50:13 AM

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" at one time I could write pretty good!"

I hope to God the grammar was a joke.

2/19/2007 3:19:23 PM