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[OC] Academic textbooks being discarded from abandoned university buildings. More photos in post.
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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.
libraries and people throw away books all the time. anytime i move away i typically toss about 100 books.
it's normal. it's just paper that no longer has a use.
so weird that people think like there is some obscure sacred knowledge here and this is sacrilegious.
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.
Ok, but these are acedamic text books. The kinds of books which could teach people new things. With all these books, since they're just getting trashed anyway, you could pretty much set up an academy for poor people who wouldn't normally be able to afford academia.
I get the love of physical books and understand it. But I'd rather poor people get the very latest electronically by pirating it via Annas Archive or the like rather than get a substandard education by reading out of date textbooks. In fact, when I was in college, I pirated textbooks I had paper copies of simply because I was tired of lugging around all that weight.
You are not going to accomplish that using a random selection of textbooks. It doesn't even look like there are that many textbooks in these piles. Realistically, you'd probably have better luck asking students taking intro-level courses to donate their old text books, or just pirating the textbooks you need
Or old things now out of date or wrong.
Noone wants it, and theres noone who wants to take them and set up an academy for poor people.
poor people don't read books, let alone textbooks
Don't worry too much about what poor people do or don't do.
that's not how any of that works. it's cute you think so though.
anyone can read a bunch of books. you can go buy these books on amazon.
getting a degree is a totally different thing. to grant legit degrees you must be an accredited educational institution.
Getting a degree and learning something are two different things.
nobody is learning physics for fun dude.
anyway, you're more than welcome to go rent a truck and take these books home with you if that's your jive.
but being angry about someone throwing out books they don't need/want is a weird-ass flex.
You might not be. But you're also failing to see how such knowledge would work in real life applications, and how the process of learning an advanced topic can generally make you more intelligent.
And beyond that, you might not get a job that absolutely requires a diploma, but it wouldn't stop you from showing competence in jobs that somewhat align with what you've learned.
Are you seriously trying to argue that an employer is going to like promote you because you're reading a physics textbook in your spare time?
I'd like to be on whatever drug you're taking that you think this that's how the world works. This is what is called 'delusional optimism'.
I studied advanced mathematics for fun, it in no way improve my job prospects, performance, or make me 'more intelligent'. It was just a personal fulfillment thing.
It's fine if you want to learn advanced topics in your spare time, I love that myself. But I'm no under no delusion it improves anything about my life. It's just a preference of how you like to spend your time.
anyway, by all means, please go buy 100 old text books and go to a homeless camp and try to educate folks about physics. see how that goes.
That entirely depends on the job, now, doesn't it?
what job offers promotion for reading physics textbooks, praytell?
most employers offer you credit for advanced degrees or professional certifications, bother of which you aren't getting from a book you found in a dumpster. you get those buy paying money and passing tests.
Your school must have a great sports program.