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    Advice needed: Psychological Problem

    Afternoon All,

    I've got a psychological problem, and where better to seek advice in such situations than that hive of knowledge experience, CUK....

    so, what's the problem ?

    Books

    more precisely, technical books

    The last time I purchased a technical book was about 4 years ago.

    However, for the 14 years preceeding that, I built up quite a library, which was utilized well supporting my contracting career.

    I've got a about (original retail price) 10k eur worth of technical books, going back to PHP3, WAP, Java 2, SAP R/3 3.1h and en going forward through Oracle 7, 8, 9, DB2, SQLPlus, Unix, all sorts of SAP subjects etc


    And here's the psychological problem, I should really get rid of the majority shouldn't I, even, shudder, throw them away, as they won't burn, because I won't use them or need them, who uses PHP3 or Oracle 8, or Java 2 or WAP or the old SAP stuff ?

    But, and here's the problem, I have a psychological problem to dispose of the books.


    What to do ?

    What do you do ?

    Milan.

    #2
    Give them to charity shop.

    If they are anything like the books i had for uni they are now so out of date as to be worthless.

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      #3
      I sorted through them and boxed them up, and popped them in the boot of my car.

      Then, after driving around with them for 6 months, I took the box back out of my car and placed it in the spare room.

      Eventually got brutal when we moved house and hired a skip and ditched loads of stuff.

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        #4
        This isn't a psychological problem.

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          #5
          Originally posted by milanbenes View Post
          I've got a about (original retail price) 10k eur worth of technical books, going back to PHP3, WAP, Java 2, SAP R/3 3.1h and en going forward through Oracle 7, 8, 9, DB2, SQLPlus, Unix, all sorts of SAP subjects etc
          No .NET books?

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            #6
            I put mine in the recycling.
            "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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              #7
              Originally posted by original PM View Post
              Give them to charity shop.

              If they are anything like the books i had for uni they are now so out of date as to be worthless.
              I wouldn't even burden charity shops with them, as I doubt any out of date IT book will sell even for pennies, especially as you can download most online free (officially or otherwise).
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                #8
                Originally posted by AtW View Post
                No .NET books?
                You don't need them these days:

                2017-04-05 Announcing a unified .NET reference experience on docs.microsoft.com

                (although I suppose that is a reference site, rather than something like ".NET for Dummies")
                Last edited by OwlHoot; 6 April 2017, 14:25.
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                  #9
                  Originally posted by milanbenes View Post
                  Afternoon All,

                  I've got a psychological problem, and where better to seek advice in such situations than that hive of knowledge experience, CUK....

                  so, what's the problem ?

                  Books

                  more precisely, technical books

                  The last time I purchased a technical book was about 4 years ago.

                  However, for the 14 years preceeding that, I built up quite a library, which was utilized well supporting my contracting career.

                  I've got a about (original retail price) 10k eur worth of technical books, going back to PHP3, WAP, Java 2, SAP R/3 3.1h and en going forward through Oracle 7, 8, 9, DB2, SQLPlus, Unix, all sorts of SAP subjects etc


                  And here's the psychological problem, I should really get rid of the majority shouldn't I, even, shudder, throw them away, as they won't burn, because I won't use them or need them, who uses PHP3 or Oracle 8, or Java 2 or WAP or the old SAP stuff ?

                  But, and here's the problem, I have a psychological problem to dispose of the books.


                  What to do ?

                  What do you do ?

                  Milan.
                  They will if you wrap them in magnetic tape.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by milanbenes View Post
                    Afternoon All,

                    I've got a psychological problem, and where better to seek advice in such situations than that hive of knowledge experience, CUK....

                    so, what's the problem ?

                    Books

                    more precisely, technical books

                    The last time I purchased a technical book was about 4 years ago.

                    However, for the 14 years preceeding that, I built up quite a library, which was utilized well supporting my contracting career.

                    I've got a about (original retail price) 10k eur worth of technical books, going back to PHP3, WAP, Java 2, SAP R/3 3.1h and en going forward through Oracle 7, 8, 9, DB2, SQLPlus, Unix, all sorts of SAP subjects etc


                    And here's the psychological problem, I should really get rid of the majority shouldn't I, even, shudder, throw them away, as they won't burn, because I won't use them or need them, who uses PHP3 or Oracle 8, or Java 2 or WAP or the old SAP stuff ?

                    But, and here's the problem, I have a psychological problem to dispose of the books.


                    What to do ?

                    What do you do ?

                    Milan.
                    I dumped a load of old technical books. Two weeks later I had a call from a hospital that lost its data on an old system that no-one has any clue about; I had thrown the manual out but luckily I had floppies with an electronic copy.
                    "A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George Orwell

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