Old textbooks

35 years from now they'll come in handy for a good laugh (you would not believe how nursing has changed over the past 35 years and that will only continue) if you have the room to store them somewhere. When you're kids are grown up and have grandchildren they can probably sell them on e-bay for a nice profit.

Seriously, never throw away textbooks. I have purchased some old nursing books from the Goodwill and enjoyed browsing through them and then donated them back to the Goodwill.

Hi,

what I would do first is check the ISBN number on Chambal.com and see if they are selling for anything.

If they are too heavy it may not be worth your while to sell them because it will cost too much to mail them.

Some people post their books on Paperbackswap.com where you can get credit and exchange for other books.

Or donate them to your public library. They sell them for a dollar or two and it helps fund a lot of their extra programs.

I hope this helps.

PurpleMyst

I sure wish I had my 1964 Fundamentals of Nursing textbook. Some of the things it it were classics.

Woody:balloons:

I just got rid of my 20 year old nursing text books. I've got a small house and I'm not sentimental. I hadn't opened them since I graduated. I'll share my experience although it might not be yours:

1. No resale value.

2. My local library was NOT interested.

3. Goodwill was happy to take them and told me that medical and nursing texts are of interest to their customer base. They may get a dollar or 2 for them.

For me, it was just all about clearing bookshelf space for things I actually do use. Good luck!

Quickbeam - I'm with you. I think I've opened my textbooks maybe 3 or 4 times since graduation. I did keep the pathophys. and the maternal child texts. I figure most of what I would need will be available on the internet - and will be more up to date that what I've got.

I thought there was a company or someone who would collect them for nursing schools in poor nations.

Thanks for the responses.

I would probably take them to the library or a donate them to a local charity. At first, I was going to say to keep them, but, this is how people start hoarding; they think of all sorts of reasons not to throw away things that no one will use, even themselves. I just paid a cleaning company to throw away over 30 bags of junk and I will not ever let that happen again. Many posters gave good suggestions. If you are unable to get rid of them in any of the above ways, just throw them away. Old history can be looked up on the internet.

Like the above post stated, take them to the library. I was you can sell list them on Ebay, but I do not think you going to get much for me since they are over 10 years old.

Like the above post stated, take them to the library. I was you can sell list them on Ebay, but I do not think you going to get much for me since they are over 10 years old.

Once they get old enough you will make money off of them on ebay it just depends on whether or not you have the room or inclination to save them that long. I've purchased 25+ year old nursing books from ebay and found them very interesting.

I finally cleared my shelf after 10 years and used them for campfires.

glad to know that i'm not the only one who is struggling with this....likely due to the zillions of dollars we invested in them at the time (and in my case, an injury due to the sheer weight of them)

i'm wondering if those books were shipped to a charity for redistribution, would that not be tax deductible? good question for the accountant i guess.

no way in heck i am going to hold on to those suckers until they become valuable...i've already moved them 5 times in 10 years.....enough already!!!!!

never thought about throwing them in the ol fireplace...that would be more use of them than i've gotten out of them in 10 years!!!!