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- inactive, on 08/19/2008, -1/+33Who puts books in the trash?
- ScottMcIntyre, on 08/19/2008, -0/+24As suggested, it makes good environmental sense to (QFA) "Donate your books to your local library and to take them to your local charity, thrift or goodwill shop.". Not only will other people benefit from being able to read them, it can raise cash to help charity. Everyone wins- and so does the planet.
- Mr.Gone, on 08/20/2008, -6/+29How about stop printing F***ing bibles. That's a good start to saving trees, and minds.
- Bukowsky, on 08/19/2008, -5/+21what happened to the good ole' book burning party?
- Narcism, on 08/20/2008, -0/+9Big books need loving too.
- TEHxINTERWEBS, on 08/20/2008, -5/+12Bon fires... perfect way to end a school year and start a great summer.
- licoricewhip, on 08/20/2008, -0/+6What about college books? They are useless after one, maybe two semesters, then what? Those you either keep for the rest of your life, or dispose of them somehow.
By the way... college books are a friggin racket. - mr0nine2five, on 08/20/2008, -1/+7I know a lady that owns a used book store. You wouldn't believe the amount of good sci-fi and stuff that can be found at those places. I highly recommend checking out a local bookstore. Help keep good places in business.
- BrettFromTibet, on 08/19/2008, -5/+12I think books are kind of wasteful, but it hurts my eyes to read on the screen too much
- socialpyramid, on 08/20/2008, -0/+6ew
- fejwuzhere, on 08/20/2008, -9/+15I'm tired of all of these headlines like this, only 24 books made from a single tree...boo hoo. For every 100 trees that are cut down 110 trees are planted. Paper is made from trees that are specifically grown to become paper. I'm so tired of the environmentalist whack jobs make it sound like there will be no trees tomorrow. Do you really think the paper and lumber companies want to put themselves out of business by cutting down all of the trees and not replanting them?
Trees are planted and replanted to become lumber and paper.
Cows are grown to be eaten. We would have no cows today if man didn't eat them.
Now I'm not for slaughtering all of our forests, old growth is no good for making paper anyway. Trees are a crop just like corn or soybeans or cotton.
Get off of this poor trees and deforestation kick. THEY ARE BEING REPLANTED YOU WHACK JOBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - inactive, on 08/20/2008, -0/+6and all the other religulous mumbo jumbo books as well.
- xero69, on 08/20/2008, -0/+6For those lucky enough to live in the right places Halfprice books is a great place to swap old books for new ones or just unload some used books. I used to resell books people left behind when moving out of my apt complex. Nothing beats recycling a stack of books in exchange for a used cd or dvd.
- IG64, on 08/20/2008, -0/+6Penn and Teller: ***** gave some pretty convincing arguments against most forms of recycling. They came to the conclusion that aluminum is the only form of recycling that actually helps anything. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-144439167 ...
Donating as mentioned is probably the best way to get rid of your books (it's what I do). - NeoCortex, on 08/20/2008, -0/+5You should try READING books instead of BURNING them.
/Dr. Jones - Kenzan, on 08/20/2008, -0/+4"Donate your books to your local library. You can feel great knowing your old books will be read by hundreds more people. "
Generally speaking, most libraries will not take your donations and put them on the shelves for others to loan or read.
They often just sell them at a library used book fair or more often, the staff simply takes the best picks of your donation for themselves.
Book swap party is an awesome idea. - Suzilla, on 08/20/2008, -0/+4Many, if not all correctional facilities will take used books. The library near where I live has a book drop specifically for this.
- Mr.Gone, on 08/20/2008, -0/+4Just say rAmen.
- kylere, on 08/20/2008, -1/+5This is a foolish idea, because the Priests, Ministers, Pastors etc would LOVE it if the bible was less available. It would allow them to twist the "truths" even MORE.
- tvnews, on 08/20/2008, -1/+5I like that bookcrossing idea.
- monocyteLSU, on 08/20/2008, -1/+5Yeah, surprisingly lots of people do. At the end of the last semester, there were tons of books in the trash can next to the "Book Buy Back" kiosk on my campus. I took all the ones that I could. I gave a bunch to professor whom I know gives the books to charity and took the rest with me. I sold a couple of books back to a local bookstore for $70 (apparently the people who threw those books away were too lazy to go to another bookstore to sell back their book) and the rest I've been selling on eBay and half.com for cheap prices. Safe to say, I've made close to $400 this summer by selling the books that no one else wanted and could have made more had I not been so generous with the pricing.
- ilovdigg, on 08/20/2008, -5/+9Just use kindle
- Mr.Gone, on 08/20/2008, -0/+4Hear hear!
- xero69, on 08/20/2008, -0/+3Kindle has the potential to save a LOT of trees, ink, etc
- Engine24, on 08/20/2008, -0/+3Nice, I like that....
- Corinne716, on 08/20/2008, -0/+3Me too! I'm thinking about trying it just to see how far it can go. I doubt tracking it really works that well though.
- inactive, on 08/20/2008, -1/+4There's a similar site for tracking dollar bills. But I guess strippers don't use the site much because I never see my dollar bills on the site after tucking them..
- canvashinder, on 08/20/2008, -0/+3I suggest finding a used book store that will give you good old cash or trade for your books.
- tMANwi, on 08/20/2008, -0/+3Would it be counter productive to your comment of I wrote, AMEN!
I agree with you actually - VigRoco, on 08/20/2008, -1/+4Right on...you beat me to this comment.
- wunksta, on 08/20/2008, -0/+2what about glass?
- breckinshire, on 08/20/2008, -1/+3Some of my best lovin' came from the Funk and Wagnalls encyclopedia.
- Krissam, on 08/20/2008, -1/+3get an amazon dingle or twinkle or twinkie or whatever it's called (dont care much, cant get one in denmark anyway, and i dont really read much either)
- liljay2k, on 08/20/2008, -0/+2No, don't you remember what happened in "Fahrenheit 451"?
- merlin484, on 08/19/2008, -1/+3now THATS an alternative energy source
- DrJG, on 08/21/2008, -0/+2People in the so called richer nations do throw away a lot and waste their wealth away. Books, food, clothes, ...
- protodon, on 08/20/2008, -1/+3Keep them in your car and throw them at ***** drivers. Used batteries are also really great for this.
- erichw1504, on 08/20/2008, -2/+4Books? What are these 'devices' called books?
- DrJG, on 08/21/2008, -0/+2People in the so called richer nations do throw away a lot and waste their wealth away. Books, food, clothes, ...
- stealthc, on 08/20/2008, -0/+2http://www.betterworldbooks.com rescues books too.
/shill - corde5, on 08/20/2008, -0/+2Things are not harder to read on an E Ink screen like Kindle's. But since you admit you don't like reading, why are you even commenting?
- inactive, on 08/20/2008, -1/+3bookmarked for later
- dema, on 08/20/2008, -0/+2> Besides that, things are harder to read on a screen and if I have to read a book (I do not enjoy reading that much) I want an actual book.
Have you ever used a Kindle? I wasn't very interested in them at first for this very reason, but the screen really is amazing. I've read on it for hours with absolutely no problems. - inactive, on 08/20/2008, -2/+4Scan em. Post on the internet.
Use for firewood in winter. - jefu, on 08/20/2008, -0/+2Donating books to library usually ends up with them in library book sales. Library book sales (and cheap thrift stores) get regularly scoured by booksellers looking for good bargains. You'll know them, they're the ones with three or four shopping carts that they dump heaps of books in. Fair enough - but it does mean that instead of the books going to people who can't afford them, they're going to people who will then make people pay through the nose. I once saw a book I'd given to a library (worth maybe $5 from amazon used) get sold for $0.50 and then on the shelf in the local bookstore for $20.
Some library booksales do have a policy of "no booksellers" for the first 12 hours or so - this is a very good idea and allows people to get a chance at the good stuff first.
Better deal? Try bookmooch.com and similar sites (bookins? paperbackswap?...). You can swap books and if you have lots of points, give them away to people or groups you find deserving.
- LtXenodite, on 08/20/2008, -0/+1One man's trash is another man's treasure.
- ProfessorRiffs, on 08/20/2008, -0/+1I dunno I lived in Chicago and the used book business is thriving there, for both buyers and sellers.
- inactive, on 08/20/2008, -0/+1$200 for the book to a class you really don't want to take anyway
- DrJG, on 08/21/2008, -0/+1No wonder the state of education in the richest nation is pathetic, with this sort of drivel about books - even as jokes!
- RedZeppelin, on 08/20/2008, -0/+1You're right about libraries, but even if they just sell the books you donate you're still supporting the library, which is always a good thing.
Since I bought my Kindle I've been donating a lot of my old dead-tree books to the library. More money for them and more space for me = win win. -
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