What do you do with your old uni books?

I've spent hundreds on books and I feel as if I should sell them off to make a quick buck... because they seem to go for pretty decent prices on Amazon Used etc... but I also get ridiculously attached to books (even those ****** diet plan books I've got free from glossy magazines) and hate giving them away! And yeah, I like it when my bookcase makes me look half-intellectual :wink:

So what do you (intend to) do with yours? :p:

Reply 1

Lamptastic

14

I've kept mine and I'll probably read them in a few years time. I look like an intellectual when I have books strewn across the room :smile:

Reply 2

tsrstar

14

elixira

I've spent hundreds on books and I feel as if I should sell them off to make a quick buck... because they seem to go for pretty decent prices on Amazon Used etc... but I also get ridiculously attached to books (even those ****** diet plan books I've got free from glossy magazines) and hate giving them away! And yeah, I like it when my bookcase makes me look half-intellectual :wink:

So what do you (intend to) do with yours? :p:

I have the same problem, i get so attatched to my books, i cant bare the thought of giving them up :o:

I keep thinking i may need them, but i know i dont. They take up alot of much needed space. I might sell them on amazon/ebay, or if that fails, bin them. :frown:

I'd rather sell them, uni books cost alot, i'd feel bad just throwing them away now that i have no use for them.

Reply 3

AP1989

11

Well you'd be selling, not giving away!

I've got quite a few I need to get rid of, just haven't bothered yet.

Reply 4

Xenomorph v2.1

14

I keep all my books, I like to look back at them every now and again to remember how hard I had to work. Plus its cool to read them after a while and laugh about how hard you used to find the easiest stuff.

Reply 5

amelialynch

I'm a big reader so I rotate the contents of my bookshelf quite a bit... so can't really get attached to mine, otherwise I'd never get to read anything new. :biggrin:

I sell mine on Amazon too. I've been doing so for a couple of years; there's always students who will need the same text books. Anontated one's go especially fast.

Reply 6

popple7

15

i want to get rid of them aaaall! no emotional attachment for me. could be to do with the fact linguistics and linguistics books are ridiculously dull :p:

i did keep some of my literature books, when i did lit in first year.

maybe keep the ones you know you will read again? i dont think hoarding books to look 'clever' is a good thing. better to make money and buy much more enjoyable books!

Reply 7

Tom1390

1

I'd do the same except some of my books cost upwards of £50... I'd be far from clever to keep them.

OP would you pay hundreds for them now, if you didn't need them? If not you should sell.

Reply 8

Simplicity

17

Delete them off my computer.

Yeah, I don't know why idiots actually buy the books when you can just download them by typing in name of the book and say rapidshare.

Reply 9

crazygirl4521

14

Simplicity

Delete them off my computer.

Yeah, I don't know why idiots actually buy the books when you can just download them by typing in name of the book and say rapidshare.

I may start doing that, once I get my hands on a HP slate.

Reply 10

Simplicity

17

maze.e

I may start doing that, once I get my hands on a HP slate.

Get the samsung R580. Seems like the best laptop for price.

What ever you do don't get a mac or like iPad(worse name ever for a electronic device).

Reply 11

moregano

18

Simplicity

Delete them off my computer.

Yeah, I don't know why idiots actually buy the books when you can just download them by typing in name of the book and say rapidshare.

Because some of us like reading actual books...

Reply 12

HearTheThunder

17

I keep mine to read. I'm one of those weird uni students that enjoys their subject recreationally.

Reply 13

Angelil

19

I kept some and sold others.

Reply 14

philip67

10

I kept all my uni books, I think it will be nice to see them all in a few years, when I have a house, and a bookshelf I can look back and go "they got me here" or just remember that I once used to be pretty smart!

Reply 15

redorange

I sound some on Amazon at the end of the last academic session. I tend to hang on to them until I run out of space, so then I need to clear out, in order to make room for more books!