Text Wrong

Wednesday the 19th of August 2009

I now know why I don’t buy textbooks. It’s got nothing to do with low utility, high cost, my learning style, or the internet. Last night I threw out my remaining university—electrical engineering and computer science—text books. I couldn’t look at them. I couldn’t count them. I tried not to think about it as they went in the recycle bin. No one wants them. They have been superseded by new editions with superficial changes. But it just feels wrong to throw books in the bin.

2 Responses to “Text Wrong”

  1. By Aaron, 5 hours, 25 minutes after the fact

    I feel you pain,

    I did the same thing a few months back. I had to hold on to a few of them programing books but relished tossing the maths text books.

    I all up 2 sets of first year maths text books plus a few other things that i never want to look at again went in the bin.

    it felt wrong but good.

  2. By Bowie, 6 hours, 57 minutes after the fact

    I have a pile of books-I-no-longer-need in the corner of my study that I can’t look at. They’re useless, but I can’t do anything with them. Throwing them out seems wrong but I just can’t imagine anyone wanting them so giving them to an op-shop seems like wasting everyone’s time.

    So they sit in the pile taking up space.