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Roger Wright wrote: I have to be very drunk and thoroughly on a mission to toss one out
Me too. 
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I have to admit that I wasn't able to get drunk enough to do the deed this weekend; the doomed are stacked on the porch, awaiting a colossal bender to meet their final destination... 
Will Rogers never met me.
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It is definitely our age. These days people Google (or google equivalnt) for information.
Who needs books these days? 
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Keep the books with general knowledge in them, for example mathematics (how to do Hamiltonian Quadruple, Laplace transformations whatever...), computer science (architectonial secrets of operating systems now forgotten) and so on.
Thy rule should be: He who forgets the past is bound to repeat it...
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Recycle. I did it with no less than 100 tech books. But there was one I wish I had kept, so be careful!!! Cheers.
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I have a slightly used copy of Stimulating Simulations for the VIC 20, if any one is interested.
I imagine a bidding war starting now...
"I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand."
- Douglas Adams
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They might be serving well as toilet paper. 
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too expensive to ship?
Did you know there is a media rate for books that is downright affordable?
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Easy, put them in the trunk and drive straight to Mexico, then go to any public high school and tell them that you want to donate all the books you have in your car, they may take them gratefully.
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Really? That surprises me, and I would hate to saddle those kids with books about products that no one will ever use again. But, while I never have any reason to drive down to Mexico, I know that there are relief organizations which regularly deliver clothing and medicines and such down there. If I can find one of them in this area, I'll certainly offer them these books, and others more current but not currently needed. Thanks for the idea!
Will Rogers never met me.
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I'm sure many, Many of us have ran into such problems, me certaintly included. Some years back I did a major move from one state to another and I didn't have room in the uhaul for all I had and decided it was finally time to get rid of about 20 books (from NT4 through 2K technologies, as well as the interdev books, to name a few). I tried to pass them off to a used book store but not even they wanted most of them! Oh, and all these books were in like new condidtions without marks (just as you, I can't do any harm to a book without destroying the earth somehow in the process). I ended up putting them all on a cart at the exit door of the book store with a sign saying "free" and walked away.
So .. that's what you must do. Just walk away! You can do it! Run if you have to!
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