Question for all you more experienced law students and lawyers: is there any reason to keep your casebooks? Do you ever look at them again?
The buyback rate is pathetic, so what I'm really asking is whether it's worth storing these huge paperweights. I have a fear of clutter and hate keeping things that would be better used by somebody else. At the same time, getting rid of books is painful, so if I might find them useful, I could be persuaded to keep them.
Any thoughts?
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I should add that I never sell my books back and I never get rid of them.
I have actually referred to my casebooks on a couple of occasions. That does not mean that I could not have gotten along without them. However, I knew I could find what I was looking for relatively easily in my casebook and then use that as my starting point for resarch. The books I used were Con Law, Civ Pro, and Property.
I kept all of mine, because I was afraid of being caught without the one I really needed to look up something important.
I have not opened any of them even once since I graduated. I finally threw them away a couple of months ago.
I have never kept a single casebook. I save things that are actually useful for reference, like Gilberts. My casebooks, pristine and unmarked (except for the beaten-up covers), are not. If you book brief, YMMV.
I have consulted my outlines before when I wanted to remind myself of something experienced during 1L, but if I ever need to look up a case I feed the cite straight into Lexis. Soon enough, you will find yourself doing the exact same thing.
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