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What to do with 1,200 CDs I don't need

I am in the process of putting all of my CDs onto hard drives (pain in the rear!) to play though my USB DAC. I will have 2 copies on separate drives, one that will only be turned on to make the backup.

I see no reason to keep the CDs so what now? I can't imagine trying to eBay 1,200 CDs one at a time. Perhaps in lots?

..Auction them here in lots?
..Take them to my local used CD store and sell them?
..Donate them to the library and get a tax deduction? If I value them at $10 each then I would save about $3,000 on my taxes. Three dollars each seems like as much or more than I would clear if I tried to sell them and I wouldn't have the hassles.

Any ideas??
herman
elizabeth
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Agree that the legal situation is that you must continue to OWN the CDs.
If "someday" the RIAA manages to invade every home and inspect the computers.. You will be in a heap of doggy-doo when they find your collection... but no CD's.
You should really just put them in storage.
(You could even throw away the Jewel cases and keep the pamphlet and CD.
I keep two CD-R 100 count spindles for such stuff)
gunbei
2,327 posts
 
Good thread with interesting ideas. The legal issue never occured to me, but it makes a lot of sense. Amazing how growing technology forces us to apapt legally and ethically.

For you guys running HD based systems. What kind of boxes are you running, into what kind of DACs?
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jond
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I'll take any jazz cd's you don't want, and I am serious if it can be worked out.
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kennyt
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Herman,

While the likelyhood of hard drive failures is slim, it can and does happen, and at the worst time... and can and does happen to backups as well.

I will tell you of the time I screwed up restoring from a back up drive and ruined both of them.... unfortunately it was at my fathers store while he was in the hospital so I basically lived there reentering all the data I screwed up.....

Yes, this ws caused by my stupidity, but I am not a dumb man... at least I don't think so, but the moral is you never have enough backup. I have all my and my wifes cd's on a HD, and I have elected to throw out all the jewel cases and store them in large CD books, they only take up a shelf in the closet and are always there should I need them.

Just my 0.02.
rwwear
2,692 posts
 
I would at least make backup Taiyo Yuden CDRs of them. And what about the artwork?
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