I've got a box full of computer and electronics books that I've aquired during the course of an electronics degree (completed before I came to sheffield) and I need to shift them as I'm leaving the country and they're too heavy to take on the plane.

Can anyone suggest a secondhand bookshop that might be interested? Do the bookshops at the university take secondhand stock?

Really want to sell them as a job lot if I can, just to save on hassle...

Blackwells on Mappin St and in Sheffield Hallam do a buy back scheme but only for things on the next semesters curriculum. It might also be worth putting a notice up in the student unions and computer depts.

I think there was an Oxfam bookshop on West Street? Haven't been up that way for ages so not sure if it's still there but i'm sure someone else will come along and tell you?
You could try Admag, free-ads too.

There's an Oxfam bookshop on West St. and another in the student's union at the University. Always assuming you want to give them away and then see Oxfam trying to charge about a tenner each for them.

Rare and Racy on Division Street buy and sell second hand books. Their website is http://www.rareandracy.co.uk/ (164/166 Devonshire Street. Sheffield S3 7SG. Tel. 0114 2701916. Tel/fax 0114 2493324. Email shop@rareandracy.fsnet.co.uk) - You could give them a ring and check if they wd be interested in your books, rather than carry them there and find they are not suitable for their clientele. (I seem to remember they are not open until after 10 in the mornings.)

Theres a secondhand bookshop call The Porter Bookshop on Sharrowvale Rd opposite the car garages. Not sure if they buy books but very likely that they do

What's the book titles, by the way?

There's an Oxfam bookshop on West St. and another in the student's union at the University. Always assuming you want to give them away and then see Oxfam trying to charge about a tenner each for them.


Yeah, damn them and their third world helping charity!! Computer books? When I was a nipper they just had packets of Tesco value lentils and were grateful for it!

You can always try ebay as a job-lot. Getting money for it, is quite hard. If you want to get rid of it asap, I'd try Oxfam. There's an Oxfam on West St which *just* sells book. A lot of academic books are there too.

If it's part of an electronic degree's reading list, I'd try and sell it to that particular uni that you studied in. It's more likely to sell there than it will in another uni which doesn't use the same books on their syllabuses.

Students aren't likely to buy books which are not on their list. Unless some postgrads want it as a set of reference books.

bout sale

making up five posts

If they are not the current edition and therefore current curriculum, they are worth zero and therefore of no value to a secondhand bookshop or a charity shop. Technology books go obsolete very quickly for obvious reasons.
Give Rare & Racy a call and follow their advice which may be to find a legal skip and drop them in it.

There is a second hand book shop on Holme Lane in Hillsborough.

Since it was five years ago I'm guessing he's got rid of them one way or the other by now!

:hihi:how time flies

Do a carboot sale!