{"id":5620,"date":"2018-05-15T13:13:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=5620"},"modified":"2018-10-09T18:28:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T22:28:35","slug":"365170-obsolete-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/365170-obsolete-books\/","title":{"rendered":"365+#170: Obsolete books"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Our daughter was home for Mother\u2019s Day. Yay! Now that she lives back in the States, I encourage her to take her stuff that\u2019s been stored at our home to her home \u2013 a \u00a0much delayed goal. In the process Heidi identified 6 books that she said were obsolete and should be pitched.<\/p>\n

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  1. The Best Colleges<\/em>, the Princeton Review,\u00a9 1992. OK this is fair. A lot has changed in colleges in the last 26 years.<\/li>\n
  2. Cracking the GRE<\/em>, the Princeton Review \u00a9 2000. Also fair. Anything you needed to know about this graduate school test has probably changed over 18 years.<\/li>\n
  3. Real SAT<\/em>, by The College Board \u00a9 1995. Comments on #1 & #2 apply.<\/li>\n
  4. The Internet for Dummies<\/em> \u00a9 1994. Since I\u2019m still pretty dumb about the internet, I thought this might be worth keeping for reference but she said it\u2019s obsolete<\/li>\n
  5. More Unix for Dummies<\/em> \u00a9 1995. What is Unix anyway? Same answer as #4.<\/li>\n
  6. International Thesaurus of Quotations<\/em> \u00a9 1970. I thought this would be worth saving but she pointed out I could find any quote quicker on the internet. OK.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In order to redeem myself I added one obsolete book of my own, Workbook for Lectors<\/em> \u00a9 2015. Although this is the most current of all the books, since the Catholic lectionary repeats every 3 years, there\u2019s no need to keep anything longer than 3 years.<\/p>\n

    Normally I take used books like this to Friends of the Library or Half Price Books<\/a><\/span>, but since these are all paperbacks and truly obsolete, I suppose just recycling them as paper is easiest.<\/p>\n

    Why not take this prompt to do a quick scan of your home for obsolete books. Free your books and some space.<\/p>\n

    I\u2019d love to know what “no longer needed by anyone” books you discover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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