![[OC] Academic textbooks being discarded from abandoned university buildings. More photos in post.](https://media.piefed.social/posts/3P/lr/3PlrLZZPYodyspS.jpg){kind=link}
Aberystwyth University closed one of its campuses a few years ago. The place has been left to rot, but recently they’ve started clearing the place out, and removing all the old scientific textbooks. Most of them look untouched. Wonder how much this lot would have set students back if buying new.
It’s not necessary about books being sacred. It’s about throwing out things that can serve more people for much longer. This paper still absolutely has a use, contrary to what you say.
Don’t you have a store for second-hand books around? Or a library that would accept book donations? People will gladly make use of your old book stock. They won’t have to overpay, you will help the environment if nothing else, and some book nerd will finally find the specific edition of a specific book you have.
you are conflating potential use with actual use.
and telling me you know nothing about books. second hand book stores want books they can sell. not worthless crap that nobody wants. libraries also, wnat books people will use.
nobody wants these books. just like when my company tosses 200 20" monitors for 2005, nobody wants them. We can’t give them or donate them or anything, because they are ancient pieces of shit. so into the trash they go.
You guys seriously seem to live in some world in your head where every book is precious, and every 20 year old monitor is wonderful. I mean, sure you can do that, but 99.9% of people don’t. it’s trash to them.
For books of no particular interest, my local second-hand bookstore has a shelf which sells books at 10 cents each. And it gets refilled quite often!
You may really underestimate the demand here.
Also, yes, we want to live in a world where things are not made disposable. The longer we can maintain what we have, the less waste we produce and the less overproduction we need to rely on. It’s sustainability 101.
those books don’t get sold dude. they get thrown out. i worked at a bookstore for awhile.
again, you can go rescue these books. go right ahead. nobody is stopping you. i’m going to throw trash in the trash.