I'm about to throw a bunch out that I kept around for years as reference, but their usefulness is long gone thanks to the vast expanse of the interweb. When the time comes that it crashes, I won't need them anyway. I will keep a couple of favorites (My old boss Dr. M-I-l-f-o-r-d's soils book and another one or two where I had the authors for class), and a few of my plant books, but the rest goes to a book store for recycle soon.

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I'm about to throw a bunch out that I kept around for years as reference, but their usefulness is long gone thanks to the vast expanse of the interweb. When the time comes that it crashes, I won't need them anyway. I will keep a couple of favorites (My old boss Dr. M-I-l-f-o-r-d's soils book and another one or two where I had the authors for class), and a few of my plant books, but the rest goes to a book store for recycle soon.

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My wife has threatened to do that with mine. I see retirement on my horizon and will probably do that when the time comes.

I kept all of my law books, but never touched them, so I donated them to the local library, so maybe some current law students can avoid buying books.

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I'm about to throw a bunch out that I kept around for years as reference, but their usefulness is long gone thanks to the vast expanse of the interweb. When the time comes that it crashes, I won't need them anyway. I will keep a couple of favorites (My old boss Dr. M-I-l-f-o-r-d's soils book and another one or two where I had the authors for class), and a few of my plant books, but the rest goes to a book store for recycle soon.

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Yes I do. Mid 90s. I never throw away anything.

yes.

every single one of them

need to dispose of them finally.

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Not since I just took the last of them to the burn pile. Thanks for the reminder. I hate to get rid of unread books, especially so many first editions.

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Is Fahrenheit 451 your favorite book?

Not only do I still have my steam tables, I still use them!

It's shimming up one of the legs on my patio table.

I still have my AP Bio book. DNA was hot stuff back in 1992. I kept Latin and some leadership texts from grad school, that's it.

Never bought one. If i needed one i checked it out of the library.

From College? No. From my dual credit construction courses on plumbing, electrical, and carpentry in high school? Abso-****ing-lutely. Code may have changed, but the diagram in most of those are awesome for any time I'm completing a quick project.

Only a couple of books but I have ALL OF MY LECTURE NOTES. Wtf do I do with those?!

I still have my first year Econ book by Dr. Allen (who i went to campus to meet and chat with when my daughter had him for the same class I had had him for) and the book with all of Shakespear's works from an English elective on him.

Those probably burn cleaner than the textbooks.

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Only a couple of books but I have ALL OF MY LECTURE NOTES. Wtf do I do with those?!

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Give them to your grandkids so they have something handwritten by their grandfather.

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713nervy said:

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Only a couple of books but I have ALL OF MY LECTURE NOTES. Wtf do I do with those?!

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Give them to your grandkids so they have something handwritten by their grandfather.

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maroon barchetta said:

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Maybe I have a copy of Lance Lowy's book on Handball somewhere.

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Did you play for Lance?

Shes a lady, bro.

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713nervy said:

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Only a couple of books but I have ALL OF MY LECTURE NOTES. Wtf do I do with those?!

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Give them to your grandkids so they have something handwritten by their grandfather.

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Should I have said handwroten?


Sorry, I don't keep a gender spreadsheet

I had a 8 or 10 of them, mostly accounting textbooks. I am bad about hanging onto things, I do not recall ever referring back to any of them. When I retired and cleaned out my office to put it up for sale, I tossed them along with all the volumes of Tax Court cases that I used to get with my tax research service, back in the days before the internet. Must have been 60 or 70 volumes.

Got rid of most of my law books a couple of moves ago. Didn't have the space for them and never opened them. I may have my blue book somewhere, but that's probably about it.

I kept my basic CE book for reference from time to time. Along with a couple of Wildlife Ecology and Fisheries books. I still have my Keying out Fisheries book that I still identify fish with. Seems like the longer I live the more I forget!
I'm going to worry when I can't tell a largemouth bass anymore without keying it out!

Several.

I have 2 of them still that I use for reference.

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I'm about to throw a bunch out that I kept around for years as reference, but their usefulness is long gone thanks to the vast expanse of the interweb. When the time comes that it crashes, I won't need them anyway. I will keep a couple of favorites (My old boss Dr. M-I-l-f-o-r-d's soils book and another one or two where I had the authors for class), and a few of my plant books, but the rest goes to a book store for recycle soon.

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Yes I do. Mid 90s. I never throw away anything.

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You're the reason storage units were created

I'm an aerospace engineer, and yes I have most of them and use them often.

I kept a few interesting history books that were class reading, and I have one textbook on Texas plants and grasses that my wife had from Ag Ec that is useful to ID plants on my place.

I have 3.

I still have a couple of my programming textbooks. I finally did a purge this past spring and threw out most of them, though

I still have a few that I couldn't get enough back for when I went to sell them. Never opened.

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Only a couple of books but I have ALL OF MY LECTURE NOTES. Wtf do I do with those?!

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Give them to your grandkids so they have something handwritten by their grandfather.

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That's actually a really sweet idea. I'd LOVE to have handwritten class notes from my beloved family members. Maybe not their business stats notes but the philosophy ones.

I have kept a few specific to areas I actively work on all the time, such as Physical and Chemical Hydrogeology by Domenico and Schwartz (still remember playing pool with Domenico at our house during Geology dept parties), Applied Hydrogeology by Fetter, and Aquatic Geochemistry by Stumm and Morgan. I don't really use them as much as I used to, but I don't really have anything else I want to put on the shelf space they take up. The rest I got rid of a long time ago.

Finally through mine away maybe 15 years after graduating. Ironically, I have several of my grandad's college books from the early 40s. And some of his and my grandmother's college yearbooks. I won't get rid of those.

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Only a couple of books but I have ALL OF MY LECTURE NOTES. Wtf do I do with those?!

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Give them to your grandkids so they have something handwritten by their grandfather.

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That's actually a really sweet idea. I'd LOVE to have handwritten class notes from my beloved family members. Maybe not their business stats notes but the philosophy ones.

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Sorry I pegged your for a male. Like I said, I don't pay too close attention and tend to assume incorrectly that most posters are guys.

My dad farmed and kept his ledger by hand. When he died, we found an old ledger (about 30+ years old) that was covered in dust and smelled like cigarettes. My mom and brother were going to throw it out, but I grabbed it because it was important to my dad, and he had put all those entries in himself.