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    Quote Originally Posted by cofi View Post
    I'll take any medical ones
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    Quote Originally Posted by RonMexico View Post
    Looking for a free 3rd world PhD?
    Yes. Yes he is.
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    If you are still debating what to do, my Fiancee could probably take them as extra reference material. She's capped out at work until she goes for a degree and was planning accounting and/or biz mgmt.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KestrelBike View Post
    sometimes the public library won't admit to accepting them, so you gotta "baby in a basket" ditch them at their doorstep.
    Our library has a drop box for used / donations.
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    Let me do an inventory, I'll try and get that done tonight.

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    Why not use them as a backstop to an impromptu firing range in your basement!?!?!

    Or, a tad more seriously, put them inside your walls for sound dampening and over-penetration mitigation purposes. books are actually pretty good bullet stoppers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sawin View Post
    Why not use them as a backstop to an impromptu firing range in your basement!?!?!

    Or, a tad more seriously, put them inside your walls for sound dampening and over-penetration mitigation purposes. books are actually pretty good bullet stoppers.
    NOT TRUE!!! At least not in my on-time experience!
    Years ago, the boy was 7 and I bought him a Crickett .22 rifle, mounted a little scope on it for him, it was bad-ass and frankly I was more excited about it than I think he was. I had to zero that baby in the finished basement. Couldn't wait to take it to the range. Stacked a bunch of phone books and a target in front and fired. One and done, all the way through the phone books and into the wall. it was concrete behind the sheetrock but I was amazed it penetrated the phone books and it was LOUD in the basement too.
    Seriously, I hear books are good in that regard, but it may take far more to stoup a round than you realize.

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    What kind of sissy phonebooks were you using?? I took a box that was approximately 8"x8"x16" and stuffed it with phonebooks and cardboard. The first 3 inches was phonebooks, the rest was just a bunch of layers of cardboard. I shot it with a 10/22 from 25 ft away 10 times and none of the 40gr .22LR bullets made it more than 10 inches. Maybe cardboard is more bullet resistant than we give it credit for?

    Either way, if the books still have relevant knowledge or wisdom in them, shooting them is the last thing you should do.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RonMexico View Post
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    YES!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Irving View Post
    Any intro to accounting or finance ones?
    I got rid of majority of acct/fnce books, but I do have lots of intro econ, if you are interested.
    I still have all these old series books from 15yrs ago...

    Quote Originally Posted by HoneyBadger View Post
    Some textbooks never go out of date. Physics 101 and calculus 101 haven't changed in centuries, whereas some medical textbooks have changed significantly in less than a decade. A 10 year old software programming textbook may as well get donated to a museum.
    Quote Originally Posted by cofi View Post
    I'll take any medical ones
    If I get a chance to get a free harrison's , I will post it up. Hope you are not talking about Merck books. lol

    This was before half.com was popular with selling text books.
    I buy a torn up used txt book for $70ish, and it was it's last year for that edition. Hate when they update the same textbook to refresh used text book market.

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