Should they stay or should they go

I'm going through my books for my annual donation to a book sale.
I have about 30-ish hardcover "old" books. These are classic literature books.
Bad thing is they are old and musty smelling. I bought a bunch of them several years ago when we re-did our family room and needed stuff to fill the shelves. Have I read then-no mainly cause they are musty smelling!
Would I like to read them sure.

So I've found some recommendations on the internet to remove the smell.
I did put some in the donation pile as well.

So either I try to remove the smell; write down the names and re-purchase in paperback/other format that are not smelly; donate them all. Some I'm not sure if I can find.

What are your recommendations?

Hmmm, I'd probably sell them.

Keep first edition ones. Get rid of the others.

If you know you're going to reread them or if you're not sure you can find them again, keep them. The rest of them....I don't even know if I'd donate them. If you can't read them b/c of the odor, do you think somebody else would want them?

There are things to do to eliminate or reduce odor in books.....remember my cookbook that somebody must have spelled a nasty-smelling perfume in? I used baking soda and it took about a month or so. But the odor is gone.

Well I'm thinking of getting rid of them too. Valuable no, donating them yes.
I thought for the price of replacing them I'm going to buy a Nook. Barnes and Noble have a special going with free classic books for Nook so rather than spend the $$ replacing them thats what I will do.

I'd get rid of all musty-smelling books.

I dont know if I personally could get rid of a book...Well I could but it depends...I guess if they are just for looks then yeah get rid of them but if you are planning on rereading them or atleast want to replace them, do a hunt on Amazon and look for which ones you can replace because more than likely you could find them on there brand new or in good used condition for super cheap. But whichever ones you might not be able to replace, or first editions keep those and try and get rid of the musty smell.

I got about 50+ of my Nora Roberts books off there all used (except her latest Bride book and the one for Nov) and they were all in great condition out of all of them only one had something written in it but I didnt mind because it was a girls name it she had pretty hand writing lol!

If you're going to get a Nook (or Kindle), ditch the books, because they're just catching dust and taking up space. I got rid of several hundred last year (donated to a church for their bazaar) when I got a Kindle. The classics can be obtained as ebooks in various formats free of charge, and you'll be more apt to read them on the Nook, because it's just so convenient having most of your library at your fingertips on one small device.