Sell Books Back or Keep Them?  |
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|  I've been presented with a reasonable dilemma when it comes to my grad school courses. When I was an undergrad, I usually sold my books back to the bookstore or to another student or even online. That wasn't a problem, I doubt I'll ever need 75% of the knowledge in those books (communications/journalism major). I kept a few history books cause I'm a history nerd... but none of the others.
Now that I am in grad school, all the books have relevance to what I am studying. It's getting to be space consuming to keep all these books. I want to scan them into PDFs and save them on an external hard drive or something to save space.
Do you keep your books or try to sell them back? Sometimes, the bookstore won't even offer 50% of the original price back, or the book becomes replaced by a new edition so it can't be bought back. What do you do with the books then?
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1. kickerofjunk (46)
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5 years ago
| |  I'd suggest selling them. There are other routes that you could take to have access to the information you need while limiting your clutter. Do any of the books have C.D.s? Are they available at the library? Could you borrow them from somewhere else? Could the information come from another source?
I'd look at it book by book, you might not want to get rid of them all, but you might be able to sell a few and save yourself some space.
Good luck!
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2.  AmbiePam (20758)
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5 years ago
| |  I usually went to www.half.com because I got more for my books there than I would have if the bookstore had bought them back.
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3.  surajpkn (578)
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5 years ago
| |  I like to sell books that i think will not be useful for me anytime in the future. Computer related books are always better to safe but other subject books do not interest me and so i sell them out or give to to someone who needs it.
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| 4. sweetgirl_k1 (3429)
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5 years ago
| |  I used to sell my books back when I was in college. I didn't really have extra space to keep them and I didn't need them cause they were all the time coming out with new ones. I usually sold them back at the end of my semester and I never had a problem with them not wanting to take them back. And no new editions had come out before I took it back to sell it.
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| 5. cherylal (6383)
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5 years ago
| |  After reading the books that I bought from the bookstore, I always keep it with me and when someone have an interest on my book I let the visitors/friends take it home with them..........
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6.  kming52 (260)
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5 years ago
| |  we have to sell it to the trash-purchasing men,and they just pay back in 10% of the original price.we have no other choices.I have just graduated from college.I don't keep many books except three main books relevant to my work.
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