Book publishers send college faculty many, many copies of books that the faculty members did not request and do not want.
That's how book publishers sell books......they get books into the hands of the folks who might be able to use them.
To prevent folks from selling these "free" books to book buyers, the book companies either send outdated copies or mark their free desk copies with special serial numbers and other markings that make them useless for resale.
So, what we wind up with every year is a whole pile of unrequested, un-asked-for, essentially useless textbooks that not even textbook buyers want.
I got these three from a big pile of such books in a campus hallway under a hand-lettered sign that said, "FREE BOOKS. TAKE THEM ALL IF YOU WANT THEM" and found a good use for them.
I shot them all from about seven yards with various firearms.
From left to right, you will see results caused by a 10/22 with a 25 round magazine, a combination of .45 1911 and 9mm Highpower, and finally a single blast of 00 buckshot out of a three-inch magnum 12 gauge shotgun.
First pic is of the Entry holes.
Second pic is of the exit holes.
Very interesting on the shotgun. The blast knocked the book off the log I propped it up on. It knocked the back cover off the book. But the pellets failed to exit the book. The deformed pellets were either stuck inside the book, or littering the ground around where the book flipped.
The combo .45 and 9mm book flipped over, too, on about the third shot, and as such took some rounds to the sides and edges.
The .22 group is not very small, but that's because I sort of got a little happy with the 25 round magazine and just kind of sprayed it good.
That's how book publishers sell books......they get books into the hands of the folks who might be able to use them.
To prevent folks from selling these "free" books to book buyers, the book companies either send outdated copies or mark their free desk copies with special serial numbers and other markings that make them useless for resale.
So, what we wind up with every year is a whole pile of unrequested, un-asked-for, essentially useless textbooks that not even textbook buyers want.
I got these three from a big pile of such books in a campus hallway under a hand-lettered sign that said, "FREE BOOKS. TAKE THEM ALL IF YOU WANT THEM" and found a good use for them.
I shot them all from about seven yards with various firearms.
From left to right, you will see results caused by a 10/22 with a 25 round magazine, a combination of .45 1911 and 9mm Highpower, and finally a single blast of 00 buckshot out of a three-inch magnum 12 gauge shotgun.
First pic is of the Entry holes.
Second pic is of the exit holes.
Very interesting on the shotgun. The blast knocked the book off the log I propped it up on. It knocked the back cover off the book. But the pellets failed to exit the book. The deformed pellets were either stuck inside the book, or littering the ground around where the book flipped.
The combo .45 and 9mm book flipped over, too, on about the third shot, and as such took some rounds to the sides and edges.
The .22 group is not very small, but that's because I sort of got a little happy with the 25 round magazine and just kind of sprayed it good.
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