$625 for 4 college textbooks

[kaymin]

it's such a scam, i remember during my later years, a lot of times i had to wait until a week before the first test (or after in some cases) before i bought the book. a lot of hte classes don't even use them and they're still 'required'.

 

[jaybert]

Originally posted by: jhmoore
I easily spent $250-300 a semester last year (my freshman year). I did a semester abroad in New Zealand last semester, and not only do the profs say up front that buying the books are optional, but instead of asking you to buy six $40 books for one class to read an average of two chapters out of said book, they have this system whereby the school copies all those chapters, binds them together and sells a "course reader" for an average of $20 USD.

This semester, though, I'm going to try a new tactic--see how good the lectures are, then decide whether or not to buy the book. So far, I've spent less than $180.

yea...one of my classes has that, except the coursepack is $100 and cant be sold back at the end of the year. each year they print out a new one (same material...different cover page, etc)

we even got a speech at the beginning of the semester that it is illegal to copy the coursepack

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

will be spending roughly $500 once I buy my last book...

 

[SparkyJJO]

4 books = $300
Amazon marketplace FTW