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I've got a bunch of textbooks from my undergrad days(20+ years ago) and some from my grad days(~10 years ago) that I want to get rid of. I don't care about getting any money for them, although that would be nice, but I also can't bring myself to toss them in the trash.

Can you throw out some ideas about where they can be donated, etc? These are most Aerospace-related texts -- Roskam, Peery, and a bunch of other names that might ring bells with one or two of you.

I've got a bunch of textbooks from my undergrad days(20+ years ago) and some from my grad days(~10 years ago) that I want to get rid of. I don't care about getting any money for them, although that would be nice, but I also can't bring myself to toss them in the trash.

Can you throw out some ideas about where they can be donated, etc? These are most Aerospace-related texts -- Roskam, Peery, and a bunch of other names that might ring bells with one or two of you.
Don't know about in America, but I've just finished uni in England and I've sold my textbooks to the second hand bookshop on campus. You could find out whether any local universities have such a shop.

Don't know about in America, but I've just finished uni in England and I've sold my textbooks to the second hand bookshop on campus. You could find out whether any local universities have such a shop.

Ten years later, they wouldn't buy them. Aerospace texts would be out of date.

What about donating them to your local library? You wouldn't make any cash, but you'd get a tax break...

I think the library idea is a good possibilty. If they cant use them, they'll likely know the best way to get rid of them too.

Maybe do a google search for used text books and contact whomever is selling them, see if they could use yours.

Ten years later, they wouldn't buy them. Aerospace texts would be out of date.

What about donating them to your local library? You wouldn't make any cash, but you'd get a tax break...

That's what I did with the texts I didn't want to keep. Didn't bother with the tax thing, though. Not really worth the extra paperwork.

Don't know about in America, but I've just finished uni in England and I've sold my textbooks to the second hand bookshop on campus. You could find out whether any local universities have such a shop.
I don't know about England, but the shops won't buy them back here if there is a new edition in use - and a new edition can easily come out within a year of buying a brand new book so you can't sell it back. It's happened to me twice.

Donate them to the library yeah, they don't have enough useless shit books I bet.

I've got a bunch of textbooks from my undergrad days(20+ years ago) and some from my grad days(~10 years ago) that I want to get rid of. I don't care about getting any money for them, although that would be nice, but I also can't bring myself to toss them in the trash.

Can you throw out some ideas about where they can be donated, etc? These are most Aerospace-related texts -- Roskam, Peery, and a bunch of other names that might ring bells with one or two of you.
www.freecycle.org find a group in your area, and post it. The whole idea is to get rid of stuff for free and give it to someone who wants it, so that it doesn't end up in the landfills. I freecycle daily, you can get neat stuff and help people out. I bet a homeschooler would love your books (I would take them, but I am not anywhere near you) ;)

www.freecycle.com find a group in your area, and post it. The whole idea is to get rid of stuff for free and give it to someone who wants it, so that it doesn't end up in the landfills. I freecycle daily, you can get neat stuff and help people out. I bet a homeschooler would love your books (I would take them, but I am not anywhere near you) ;)
I think your kids are dangerous enough without teaching them from out of date Aerospace textbooks :p. Though they could probably get a job at NASA with all that out-of-date knowledge.

When I left uni, my gf and I sold back what books we could to Blackwells and then exchanged the rest with John Rylands library in return for them killing a large fine on my gfs' account.

This is of no use to the OP but the money from Blackwells paid for a good night out with a load of friends before we all split up and went back home and getting rid of the fine meant she could graduate. It was probably the best day I had at uni and it makes me smile to remember it. :)

I think your kids are dangerous enough without teaching them from out of date Aerospace textbooks :p. Though they could probably get a job at NASA with all that out-of-date knowledge.
I bet you are right on all accounts. :D

I think your kids are dangerous enough without teaching them from out of date Aerospace textbooks :p. Though they could probably get a job at NASA with all that out-of-date knowledge.
There is nothing out of date with respect to the subject matter. Equations of motion, coordinate transforms, vector analysis, and the like hasn't changed since Newton. It's the yellow pages that put off potential buyers. I tried for a couple years to replace my copy of Kane's "Spacecraft Dynamics" before I gave up. Best book ever on coordinate systems and how to transform between them.

Donating to a library, and probably my alma mater library, is probably the easiest thing to do. Georgia Tech has plenty of old dusty books. They could probably find room for a few more.

NS General, thanks for pointing out what should have been obvious.

There is nothing out of date with respect to the subject matter. Equations of motion, coordinate transforms, vector analysis, and the like hasn't changed since Newton.

I was thinking they were more to do with the then-current technology than the Physics involved. I know that some of my Chemistry books are outdated even though I only graduated in 1997 because there have been several discoveries in both OChem and PChem that explain points which were considered only hypothetical when my texts were published...