Showing posts with label reference. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reference. Show all posts

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Dumping Old Documentation

I'm one of those people who hasn't been able to completely give up paper. Particularly when I'm dealing with reference material, I like having a book I can flip through, shove bookmarks in, or hold over my head while I lie back on the couch and read. It's hard to do any of those things with a laptop and a PDF. As a result, I've got a shelf behind me that's a veritable rainbow of O'Reilly titles and other technical references. But here's my problem... what to do with outdated editions?

I think I've got three or four copies of DNS & Bind, of varying editions, multiple versions of the bat book and some extras of C and Perl references. I'd like to try to find a way to reuse these before just dumping them in the weekly recycling. Surely someone out there might find these older editions useful for something..