Those books could be donated out in poor communities. Sad.

Curated school library Sad but true Going on in bookstores too My friends

I used to teach in an inner city school. The year I started, the librarian asked me to help her dispose of books in this way (she let me have a couple hundred dollars from her EF money for my trouble). Anything older than ten years had to go. Instead of tossing, I snuck them all out on a couple Saturday mornings. Over a thousand books. A lot really were garbage and outdated, but there were some real treasures, like Mississippi history textbooks from the 1930s. A few I donated to historical collections and others I sold. At least have a community book sale before you toss them in a dumpster.