[CALUG] books to donate

[Scott Kitterman]

You might also consider The Book Thing in Baltimore.  Their website seems to 
be down at the moment (bookthing.org), but https://foursquare.com/v/the-book-thing/4ae29e9ff964a520378f21e3 will give you the idea.

Scott K

On Friday, February 07, 2014 10:23:53 Walt Smith wrote:
> I posted your note on UAS maillist...
> Book are generally more welcome
> than magazines.
> 
> I tried a couple local community colleges
> to try to donate a rather complete set of Byte magazines
> I have.  They didn't want them because they
> have them on microfiche...   YUK !!!    Microfiche
> is black and white film, often reversed b&W...
> And a very significant amount of Byte's content
> involves color on color... specially code- as Byte didn't want
> people "xeroxing" their issues....  hence imagine color on color
> translated to grayscale.   Pretty much unreadable.
> 
> There are several electronics museums in the region
> as well as private collectors - computer museum in
> Cockeysville ....  what we need is a comprehensive list.
> Maybe someone is interested in compiling...
> 
> 
> Walt..........
> 
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 11:06:18 -0500
> From: "Sean Wilkerson" <sean at seanandheather.com>
> Subject: [CALUG] local place to donate tech books etc.
> To: calug at unknownlamer.org
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> Hey,
> 
> I have a box or two of not-new (but not that old) tech books and 5+
> years of printed Linux Journal that I need to move elsewhere.
> 
> It seems so wasteful to recycle if someone else can re-use.
> 
> Is there a good place (school/library/individual/etc.) that takes
> donations like this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Sean
> 
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