Keep or sell textbooks?

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What textbooks, if any, did you keep or wish that you kept after passing NCLEX? I still have almost all of my books and desperately need to clear some space in my house. Right now I'm planning on selling most of them...considering keeping my MedSurg book and a couple specialty books that I find interesting as references though.

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Sell them all. They become obsolete almost as soon as they are printed, so sell them while they are still worth more than a penny.

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Specializes in school nursing, ortho, trauma.

i kept all mine - but honestly after about 6 months or so into nursing i don't think i ever looked at them again. I still have them some where, but i've been a nurse for so long that no one would want them if i did try to sell them. It's up to you - if you think you'll refer back to them, then by all means, keep them, refer back to them. If not - then sell them off and take your meager little windfall and buy something neat-o.

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Specializes in LTC and Pediatrics.

I agree, sell them.

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Specializes in critical care, ER,ICU, CVSURG, CCU.
What textbooks, if any, did you keep or wish that you kept after passing NCLEX? I still have almost all of my books and desperately need to clear some space in my house. Right now I'm planning on selling most of them...considering keeping my MedSurg book and a couple specialty books that I find interesting as references though.

I sorts am am with you, on what you want to. Keep.....but most are Dated, by he time we graduate....when I went back to school and for my RRT, I bought I would keep a few "main ones"... For the same as you.....but they have not been opened...they are not how I keep updated...

but it I love reading 1940-60s med surge books for the "history of it...." We have evolved...

best wishes

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Sell them, they will be out of date soon. I kept one book for nostalgia's sake, a 1979 Spence and Mason Human Anatomy and Physiology, but basic anatomy doesn't change so I do use it for that.

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