I’ve decided to get rid of a lot of books. Mostly, but probably not exclusively, technical books. Many, but not all, fairly up to date. The fact is that for years I’ve bought them simply out of habit–I browse them, or maybe even actually sit down and read them, and discover that there’s little in them that I didn’t already know. And then they go on the bookshelves, or the floor, and take up space.
Getting a subscription to “Safari”:http://safari.oreilly.com has made them doubly redundant.
If nothing changes, one day there will be a nice layer of humus where this house was from all the books that slowly composted–so here’s your chance to benefit from my compulsive behavior: I’m giving them away. I’m going to be going through the shelves over the next few weeks, and entering all the items in “a Google Spreadsheet”:http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pTyL0Vsb4VwTwPEgPlmD2Zg; if you see something you want (I imagine you could subscribe to the RSS feed for the sheet for best results), email me at mdorman@tendentious.org, and I’ll see about boxing it up and shipping it.
I may look into what’s involved in being able to accept some compensation through my paypal account–I just want to cover the cost of packaging and shipping, but this could be a lot of books, and even at book rate, it can add up.
If you know anyone who might be interested, please point them to the spreadsheet as well.
