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 Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 10:37 am
are ******** expensive!
i spent $300 on them this semester. last semester, when i had one more class, i had to spend $450. and yes, i buy used books (when they're available). and the worst part? those are the two cheapest semesters i've had so far! what the ********! scream scream scream
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Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 11:23 am
I feel your pain.
I spent about 200-250€ on books the first half year (I guess that's a semester) and about 200€ the next. Last autumn it was cheaper, about 150€ and so far I've only bought an English book and two Spanish books = 90€. I might need some more later on this spring when more courses start.
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Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 2:00 pm
seriously, what is up with textbooks companies? college students are poor... their main market is college students... shouldnt they get with the program?
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Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:24 pm
MegaTherion777 seriously, what is up with textbooks companies? college students are poor... their main market is college students... shouldnt they get with the program? They know that the students need them and will have to buy them either way, so they price them whatever way they want.
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Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:39 pm
Intertubes, man. There's half.com and Amazon, those are great if you want/need to OWN a book. Then there's Chegg if you're cool with renting. Me, I rented a book that cost 150 bucks at my college bookstore there for 52 plus shipping. Just go to your bookstore, copy down the ISBNs, and then look 'em up online. 3nodding Intertubes. cool
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Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:42 pm
ashlander_alpha Intertubes, man. There's half.com and Amazon, those are great if you want/need to OWN a book. Then there's Chegg if you're cool with renting. Me, I rented a book that cost 150 bucks at my college bookstore there for 52 plus shipping. Just go to your bookstore, copy down the ISBNs, and then look 'em up online. 3nodding Intertubes. cool you apparently missed out on the whole "mike accidentally left his computer in maine and just got it back yesterday, but needed books on tuesday" thing
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Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:54 pm
Hmn, I suppose I did miss out on that. sweatdrop Even so, nothing of great import happens in the first week. Coulda had the orders rush-delivered. That'd STILL be cheaper than getting raped by your friendly campus bookstore.
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Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 6:42 pm
ashlander_alpha Hmn, I suppose I did miss out on that. sweatdrop Even so, nothing of great import happens in the first week. Coulda had the orders rush-delivered. That'd STILL be cheaper than getting raped by your friendly campus bookstore. nothing important? how about italian class every day, with at least an hour's worth of homework each night?
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Digital Malevolence Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 7:41 pm
I don't need to rent/buy books, instead I'm going to spend $300 on a MicroKorg, once I get my taxes back.
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Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 8:16 pm
MegaTherion777 nothing important? how about italian class every day, with at least an hour's worth of homework each night?
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Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:23 am
I can't get stuff off of Amazon, you know how long the shipping takes? Our teachers usually want us to have our books ready for the next lesson that is less than a week away. And I doubt if they have the books I need here in FINLAND. It's great that you listed all the sites that can be used in the US, they help me... not at all.
Anyway, there's this gigantic bookstore that sells these books for expensive prices, then we have our school bookstore that has a limited amount of books/used books for cheaper prices. We usually go check that out. And then there's bookplus.fi/com whatever, where you can order books in a group and get them for cheaper prices. It takes ages to deliver though, so not that good. Or then you can try to find the book in our school library and copy all the pages for 6-10€. Time consuming, but it works if it's not the whole book you need to copy. Like last autumn we copied our Swedish book, because it was only 80 pages out of like 300 pages of that specific book.
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Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 5:45 am
You know... studying computer engineering is soooo much cheaper. No need to buy any books. Everything you need is up for grabs on the internet. Or is too new to even be in textbooks.
But then... you MUST have a computer...
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Warrior of Metal Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 3:34 pm
www.cheapbooks.com
You can get stuff hella cheap here.
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Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 8:50 pm
My suggestions were directed at Mega, of course. And Kas brings up a good point--more subjects other than IT need to start freeing themselves of textbooks.
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