Old Textbooks

[Sanman]

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I was recently cleaning my old stuff out of my parent's house in preparation for an upcoming move and found the remainder of my old grad school texts. I took the useful ones years ago for my home office. However, what did you guys do with the ones that were of minimal use? Garbage? Stick them on a shelf? Burn them in effigy of every old prof you disliked? Kindling for the fireplace? Trying to decode what to do (sidenote:I have apparently read too many books in my life, I need a bigger house for all these books)

 

[Fan_of_Meehl]

Was recently cleaning my old stuff out of my parent's house in preparation for an upcoming move and found the remainder of my old grad school texts. I took the useful ones years ago for my home office. However, what did you guys do with the ones that were of minimal use? Garbage? Stick them on a shelf? Burn them in effigy of every old prof you disliked? Kindling for the fireplace? Trying to decode what to do (sidenote:I have apparently read too many books in my life, I need a bigger house for all these books)

I think if you wait a few years the contents will cycle back around to become popular again.

 

[clausewitz2]

If you have situations where you have to use a laptop at a regular desk, use a stack of them to elevate the laptop to your sitting eye level. Your back and shoulders will thank you.

 

[summerbabe]

Shred into tiny pieces by hand and create modge podge portraits honoring seminal figures in psychology.

When I eventually have to do this for stuff left behind at my mom's house, I'll probably split between Goodwill and the recycling bin.

 

[calimich]

I leave them out for a few weeks in the student psych lounge area, FREE! Students love free stuff. Left overs I will slowly distribute to little free libraries in the area, with the help of this map. I still get print journals and do the same things with them. I like to imagine kids, and parents, all over the region perusing descriptive statistics, correlation tables, and scatterplots.

 

[Shiori]

I left mine in my old lab to build up the mini library for incoming students. It also meant the students didn't have to buy new books if the professor used the same ones.

 

[Fan_of_Meehl]

I leave them out for a few weeks in the student psych lounge area, FREE! Students love free stuff. Left overs I will slowly distribute to little free libraries in the area, with the help of this map. I still get print journals and do the same things with them. I like to imagine kids, and parents, all over the region perusing descriptive statistics, correlation tables, and scatterplots.

Keeping old books can be useful too and I've noticed that a lot of them printed 'back in the day' were very well constructed. I have a paperback copy of Kanfer & Goldstein's 'Helping People Change' book that, though dated, is still chock full of high quality content and is still in great shape despite being printed in the 1990s and frequently referenced.

Meanwhile, the harback copy of a psychopathology book I just bought is flimsy as hell and printed on 'pulp' paper and probably won't last 10 years. Grumpy old man rant of "they just don't make 'em like they used to."

 

[R. Matey]

Keeping old books can be useful too and I've noticed that a lot of them printed 'back in the day' were very well constructed. I have a paperback copy of Kanfer & Goldstein's 'Helping People Change' book that, though dated, is still chock full of high quality content and is still in great shape despite being printed in the 1990s and frequently referenced.

+1

When I was in grad school, one of my professors retired and gave me all of his old cognitive therapy books that were chock-full of useful content that I still regularly reference.