How much are your textbook expenses this semester?

[ChaoZ]

Total: $360

Good thing I can reuse my Accounting book from last semester or it would be another $200. And I still have to pay another $50 for some bs online service.

 

[Spikesoldier]

mine is nearly 300 (one used and one new) for the first eight week semester. second eight weeks' expense should be smaller since one of the books i bought covers both halves of the class.

 

[Ryan]

I know this won't shock most of you, but I was shocked that my accounting book cost 160 bucks. Most expensive POS book I've ever had to buy :thumbsdown:

 

[Ricemarine]

$145.11.

I'm too lazy to resell . Might as well get 50% back selling it to the bookstore.

 

[Scouzer]

I'm not in school, but most people I know books cost them $400-600 per semester

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

$416.82

ONLY because I had to flippin buy the calc book again because the new edition came out. Since I need it for this semester I had to buy again and couldnt even sell my old one back. Lame.

Then again work will reimburse all of it so I shouldnt complain right?

 

[Farang]

$90.. really $240, but I had credit left on a refund from a year ago that I forgot about.. like free money to me.

 

[legoman666]

$0! I'm co-oping.

 

[BoomerD]

4 classes:
Bookkeeping 1
Business Math
Business Law
Environmental Science

Book total: $568.

The good part is that unless they change textbooks in the next year, I can use the bookkeeping text for several other classes.

 

[novasatori]

~$250 - only $180 for 4 books I got online, the other ones I HAD to buy in the book store which cost me $70

buying used books online is where its at... $160 in book store?... $17 used online

can check other book stores near the campus too, they have steals sometimes

 

[TallBill]

Paid about $300, for all used books. Taking 5 classes, and two classes required 2 bokos.

 

[Brainonska511]

~$270. 2 textbooks for sciences - 2nd volume of a physics textbook and a new textbook for bio as it is now "genetics", 2 lab manuals, and a bunch of books for my social science class.

It'll probably be another $100 or more for next quarter (Spring) as I'll be finishing my core social science class and taking intro to biochemistry.

 

[Shawn]

Probably $200 or so.

 

[FleshLight]

~$10. Won't be buying textbooks for classes since I have many friends that already did. I have to buy handouts from the store though. Engineering btw =)

 

[bobert]

~$450, 5 classes, two of which required 2 books each. Bought all online with the exception of one at the bookstore

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

~$150, not that bad. Just had to buy books for 3 classes. Bought all at used bookstore.

 

[Oil]

$300

 

[Skunkwourk]

you guys got off lucky $700

 

[eakers]

$13.65
My teachers believe that "Why use text books when everything you need to know is pretty much on the internet anyways?"

 

[Juno]

$100. bought used textbooks from amazon.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Made $2000
tuition (7 hours): $350
books: $200

 

[Jeff7]

$170 plus some $90 proprietary software. Two textbooks were the $170 expense, used, from Amazon. Two courses don't have textbooks - they deal with ANSYS (we use the extensive help menus as a textbook) and the other is a CAD systems course, mainly Pro/ENGINEER. The fifth course, Heat Transfer, uses the Thermodynamics textbook from last semester.
The $90 software is some project simulation thing for a project management course. It can't be purchased used - the licenses are one-time-use dealies.

 

[PrinceofWands]

Very cheap semester actually, I got lucky. 26 books new would have been $565ish. I got them all for $340ish. Now I just have to see how many extras I pick up for research and such.

 

[I Saw OJ]

About 300ish. Other equipment is going to cost a little bit more.

 

[wiredspider]

don't start for another 2 weeks, but from ratemyprofessor i apparently don't need to buy any (one class needs it, but I have it from last semester).

ChaoZ is your accounting book the shiny blue one (I think Kelso?)