Originally Posted by MsSewer
There is a place here in Mass. that is "Got Books". They take everything. My son is an avid reader and amasses a lot of books. I know they they have an "800" number. I don't have it right now but if you google it to see if it is anywhere near you. They pick up at the house. You just put them outside. Hope they are near you or if not maybe something similar.
I would bet they recycle a lot of books.
Let's face it, there are a lot of books that NEED to be thrown away or recycled. Your local library or book sale, does NOT want a 1960's HS algebra textbook, old encyclopedias, old RD condensed books, or old harlequin romances. Trust me on this. I have been involved in a lot of library book sales and there is a ton of stuff left over that NO ONE wants. The library has to pay to have it taken to the dump. I have personally filled up a dumpster with old paperbacks after a sale, where the last hour of the sale, everything was FREE.
That being said, there may be a lot of highly technical books if he was a nuclear engineer, they may be worth a LOT of money on Amazon. Look some of them up, I am talking 100's of dollars EACH here.