What did you do with your old college textbooks?

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Visiting used-book sales was a great hobby at one time, so I was keeping more in store than just most of the ones I used while in college. I have since donated some back to a couple of local libraries on some very few occasions.

 

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Sadly, used bookstores won't even take old textbooks for free. So, unless it's some really famous text that has some special significance, once you don't want it any more you likely are going to dump them or such. Digital is taking over. Fewer and fewer people want paper bound books any more. And textbooks get revised and updated specifically to force peopel to buy new ones and not be able to resell the old ones.

The few exceptions are likely going to be glimmering at you. For example: If you have the original Feynman and Hibbs on path integrals, you can probably get some cash for it. Especially in good condition. It's listed "used" on Amazon for about $200. It was much more before the revised and corrected edition came out.

So just scan your books to see if there is anything in there like that. Big name author(s) on some specialty subject might be collectibles.