alt Hacker NewsAs the author of several comprehensively obsolete books on programming, I'd be honored to have the spine cut off and to have them digitized, as if there were still some value in the words and code my co-authors and I created those years ago. Otherwise they'd be pulped or used as kindling anyway.
> I'd be honored to have the spine cut off and to have them digitized
It's probably already been done. But if it hasn't, do it and upload it to a shadow library.
You can also check if Internet Archive has scanned it or has a copy in the scan queue.