I have several academic textbooks that I don't need or want anymore. I know some places will let you trade in books or sell books back but since these are a number of years old, I don't know whether recycling them is the best way to go. Any suggestions?
You should look into putting them on ebay. My daughter's teacher last year got a lot of worksheets from old text books she'd bought on ebay and 1/2 priced books. Just because it's older doesn't mean it isn't useful to someone.
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You can try listing them on half.com - a text book website. Even if the textbook is several years old, the publisher's newer editions really aren't all that different, they make new editions to correct things like spelling and grammatical errors. :-)
You can donate the books to a place in Dallas called Austin Street Centre - this is a homeless shelter that houses men, women and children only if they are clean of alcohol and drugs, plus they have a 'halfway' house for those with jobs getting ready to go back into society on their own. I'm sure textbooks would encourage further learning on their part.
http://www.austinstreet.org/
There are several places online to donate old text books...like http://www.intlbookproject.org/donorBooks.php or http://www.booksforafrica.org/donatebooks.html.
I've always had good luck with half.com. They are a division of ebay so you can just use your same log in if you do ebay.
Also a great place to buy books for your children!
You can try selling them at half-price books. The worst they can say is "No, Thank you." They offered me something like .50 for some of mine that I tried to sell that were a few years old, so you likely won't get much. The other option is to hold on to them for another year and let your daughter have at them when she gets in that destructive phase all toddlers go through. My son spent about a month absolutely adoring tearing up magazines then got over it. He had a ball ripping the pages. You do have to closely supervise to make sure they don't eat the paper, and some people discourage it because they say it encourages destructiveness. In my situation, it worked out nicely.
