For those of you in school, what are your textbook costs going to be this semester?
Textbooks for this Semester
#1
Posted 14 August 2010 - 03:41 PM
For those of you in school, what are your textbook costs going to be this semester?
#2
Posted 14 August 2010 - 03:45 PM
Mine ranges about 200-300 dollars per quarter, so roughly 600 at most in a school year.
#3
Posted 14 August 2010 - 03:50 PM
#4
Posted 14 August 2010 - 03:50 PM
If I buy them from the bookstore - about $500-700 per semester. If I buy International Editions off eBay and torrent whatever ones I can, maybe about $200.Oi, college. I ran up costs for my textbooks for this semester, and they're going to run me around $700. Sucks. =/ It's a new record for me.
For those of you in school, what are your textbook costs going to be this semester?
#5
Posted 14 August 2010 - 03:56 PM
I think I will have to pay $250 for textbook, even though I only take 4 classes.
#6
Posted 14 August 2010 - 03:58 PM
#7
Posted 14 August 2010 - 04:03 PM
Book 1: $137.75
Book 2: $159.75
Book 3: $114.75
Book 4: $45.00
Total: $457.25
My grant will cover all of that, but I'm debating on seeing if I can get the books elsewhere before the 1st
I would have to pay up front if I get them elsewhere, but I would get the leftover money from my grant refunded at the end of the term.
#8
Posted 14 August 2010 - 04:16 PM
I usually borrow a textbook from friends if it is not worth buying (required class that you won't see it again).
The only annoying thing is that the textbook tends to come with new edition every year or two.
They are smart enough to rearrange the problems so that we "have" to buy the newest edition.
If you are college student in the US, there is free one year amazon prime feature. (Just in case someone miss it.)
#9
Posted 15 August 2010 - 09:17 AM
#10
Posted 15 August 2010 - 07:29 PM
#11
Posted 15 August 2010 - 07:48 PM
Last semester, I managed to buy most of my textbooks used through eBay and Amazon, but I had to buy a couple in the school bookstore and the prices were insane. My school does buy books back at the end of each semester, but they give you nothing close to the original price and some books are already outdated by the time you're done with them.
#12
Posted 16 August 2010 - 02:59 AM
#13
Posted 16 August 2010 - 03:03 AM
#14
Posted 16 August 2010 - 08:49 AM
In china you need to buy your textbooks in all grades. But they are really small, and cheap
#15
Posted 16 August 2010 - 08:59 AM
#16
Posted 16 August 2010 - 10:32 AM
#17
Posted 16 August 2010 - 10:39 AM
#18
Posted 16 August 2010 - 01:44 PM
Extortionate amounts on violin strings though.
#19
Posted 16 August 2010 - 02:42 PM
Japanese I requires a book that is 150 USD and includes CDs and such, but then also needs two other books.
Math has, naturally, an expensive textbook.
And then my three history classes.
#20
Posted 16 August 2010 - 09:08 PM
The textbook market is the most crooked thing I have ever seen. No book should cost 200 dollars unless it is printed on gold-sheet paper with unicorn blood ink with a diamond cover.
The WORST is when a teacher makes a big deal about getting the textbook because you will "definitely need it for the class", then they never reference it after the first two weeks, and you wasted 150 bucks for a paperweight. It happens to me at least once a semester, and always pisses me off.
#21
Posted 16 August 2010 - 10:23 PM
Engineering is like the worst for textbooks. They update editions and throw new information at us each year, effectively destroying the used book market ever 16 months. My books for this Fall came to around $350 or so, but that is because I am borrowing a Differential Equations book and a Physics book from friends for the semester. Borrowing saved me like 100 plus dollars.
The textbook market is the most crooked thing I have ever seen. No book should cost 200 dollars unless it is printed on gold-sheet paper with unicorn blood ink with a diamond cover.
The WORST is when a teacher makes a big deal about getting the textbook because you will "definitely need it for the class", then they never reference it after the first two weeks, and you wasted 150 bucks for a paperweight. It happens to me at least once a semester, and always pisses me off.
Well, Engineering is constantly changing and new technologies are always emerging, but yeah, that sucks.
I mean, I understand where the prices come from, because oddly enough book companies aren't getting rich off of textbook sales. The companies that buy and resell them are, though.
However, yeah, it sucks when you buy a book and don't use it, or only use it very lightly.
#22
Posted 17 August 2010 - 12:44 AM
Last semester was six courses and I think I broke the 700 mark.
Of course I'll be buying as many as possible through Amazon and related sites. But not every textbook is available through retailers.
#23
Posted 18 August 2010 - 08:53 PM
just borrow from friends and photocopy.
#24
Posted 19 August 2010 - 03:24 PM
Works if you know someone in the class with you, but I don't always. Plus if they took the class last year or the year before, the books might have been updated. Or a different professor is teaching the course and now I've photocopied a book that I don't need.so ex.
just borrow from friends and photocopy.
I like your method when I can get away with it. It's just I can't always.
#25
Posted 20 August 2010 - 05:44 AM
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