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Originally Posted by S2020,May 24 2010, 01:29 PM
Maybe I came across too harsh. Text books are expensive.
However, education is important.
I still believe that if you can spend $20K on a car, you can spend $4K on text books.
However, education is important.
I still believe that if you can spend $20K on a car, you can spend $4K on text books.
Text books are a ripoff that are expensive and contain information that is easy to get for free elsewhere. Why spend $4k on textbooks if you don't have to?
It's like when my friends give me shit for being cheap when I have a good job. So what if I don't HAVE to use grocery coupons? If I have a $5 off coupon I'd might as well use it
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Originally Posted by S2020,May 24 2010, 01:32 PM
I find that the OP drive a relatively nice car and complaining about price of books to be incongruous.
you know what people say about priorities.
you know what people say about priorities.
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And to those talking about priorities and bitching about books etc.
I dont think hes saying he cant afford the txt books, but if i can buy all these mods that ive done for my s2k for about 6k put tons of miles on them, which all parts will have much more wear and tear than any book ever will and then sell them all back and get atleast 3-4k for them, i dont see why I should pay 4k for books, and then sell them back and get $500-$1k for them all throughout total college carreer (just an estimate)
I dont think hes saying he cant afford the txt books, but if i can buy all these mods that ive done for my s2k for about 6k put tons of miles on them, which all parts will have much more wear and tear than any book ever will and then sell them all back and get atleast 3-4k for them, i dont see why I should pay 4k for books, and then sell them back and get $500-$1k for them all throughout total college carreer (just an estimate)
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One prof last term assigned us journal articles that were ALL available online. 
There were definitely some people who printed out every article (we did have discussions each week about the assigned article), but it wasn't necessary. Too bad the rest of my prof's didn't do something similar.
There were definitely some people who printed out every article (we did have discussions each week about the assigned article), but it wasn't necessary. Too bad the rest of my prof's didn't do something similar.
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Originally Posted by shareall,May 25 2010, 08:43 AM
One prof last term assigned us journal articles that were ALL available online. There were definitely some people who printed out every article (we did have discussions each week about the assigned article), but it wasn't necessary. Too bad the rest of my prof's didn't do something similar.
There were definitely some people who printed out every article (we did have discussions each week about the assigned article), but it wasn't necessary. Too bad the rest of my prof's didn't do something similar.
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Originally Posted by S2020,May 24 2010, 01:29 PM
Maybe I came across too harsh. Text books are expensive.
However, education is important.
I still believe that if you can spend $20K on a car, you can spend $4K on text books.
However, education is important.
I still believe that if you can spend $20K on a car, you can spend $4K on text books.
Cars are good for 10+ years.
You cannot drive your texbooks to work.
Education is important, maximizing profit over education isn't. College textbooks( and how they are distributed) are one of the biggest rip-offs in this country.
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I usually go to the campus bookstore to find out exactly which books I will need. Then, I write down to ISBN and get them off Amazon for half the cost.
The bookstore must be getting wise to this, because now they don't let you go to the textbook section until a few days before classes start because they are "stocking the shelves."
OP - Your math book wouldn't happen to be Rogawski's Calculus would it? I had to buy an access code for my online math homework, but the only useful part of that was the student solutions manual in .pdf form.
The bookstore must be getting wise to this, because now they don't let you go to the textbook section until a few days before classes start because they are "stocking the shelves."
OP - Your math book wouldn't happen to be Rogawski's Calculus would it? I had to buy an access code for my online math homework, but the only useful part of that was the student solutions manual in .pdf form.