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Wasting money on school books =( - Page 2
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zZygote
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Thrill
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Buying textbooks is often a waste of time, especially if you are a good student and attend classes regularly. This goes double if the professor is recommending their own textbook for a course, since then they have a vested interest in selling as many copies as you can. For certain standardized courses such as lower-level math or science courses, the material is very generic, and if you can't download the exact textbook online you can certainly download a textbook that covers almost exactly the same material. Obviously you may have difficulties doing exercises from a textbook that you don't own, but this is what friends are for, or if you don't have any, every course should have a reserve copy of the course text available in the library. Ask people who have taken the course previously, or even the professor, if you will be using the textbook a lot; many profs do not set the recommended textbook (I didn't last time I taught!) and may not plan to use it much at all. Most profs will be honest with their students about such things. Obviously sell your old textbooks if you don't plan on using them again, and look up buy/sell sites specific to your university; you often can get better prices than selling back to the bookstore. | ||
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Djzapz
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emperorchampion
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Chairman Ray
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Clicker
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I got at least 60% for them all. Just throw up the course number/section/the book/quality. Even comparing vs the used price from local book stores - people saved money buying from me instead. One guy shares my major and I'm taking 2 classes this fall he won't be taking until the spring or fall next year and I'll likely sell to him again. My biggest pet peeve was having required expensive books that we'd use maybe a week and never touch again. Or have a few readings from that only had 1-3 questions on the test. Such a waste. | ||
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Djzapz
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On June 04 2011 10:10 emperorchampion wrote: What school do you go to? UdM, Laval? UQAM As for the books I sold, I got about 20-40% back. Better than nothing =( | ||
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Nexic
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I will say that if you need to sell any of your books back, Amazon gives much better prices than a bookstore, in one case amazon gave me double what the bookstore listed. | ||
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emperorchampion
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On June 04 2011 13:46 Djzapz wrote: UQAM As for the books I sold, I got about 20-40% back. Better than nothing =( Ah, coolio | ||
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