Ancient tech books, what are they good for.
Propping up wonky tables? You'd had to have had mighty hungry woodworm to have chewed off that much that any one of these would be of use. A load of Netware books, critical server issues, PC hardware, and the most nostalgia filled one of all MSDOS 3.2 User Guide.
A right old cortical mess of sociology and psychology textbooks from years gone by. Some of them classics - Education and the Working Class, Housewife (Ann Oakley), How Children Fail, The Social Psychology of Industry amongst others.
Read some of them, glanced through others, and some haven't had a page turn since they were inherited.
Is there any purpose to be served by keeping the ones that aren't ever going to be opened.
Not going to read The Cathedral & The Bazaar again, the Douglas Couplands belong to another age I'll never recoup, and is it likely that Thomas S. Szasz and his Myth of Mental Illness will ever have it's argument on questioning the legitimacy of psychiatry revealed to anyone in this house?
Can't say that any of that is going to happen. So these things just become a burden that get lugged around when in actuality they ought to be passed on elsewhere, either to be pulped or to be used/appreciated.
But getting rid of books is just so bloody difficult, it's just not in the blood.
Better leave that pile there for a while until it becomes clear which ones to release into the wild.
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