How much for your college textbooks?

[bhanson]

I took a look at my list tonight, $700 baby!

Going to be ordering them online soon.

How much are yours?

 

[JasonE4]

You can't get them used? International versions? I haven't paid more than $200 for the past two years.

 

[TanisHalfElven]

i was wondering i'll be going to start college soon (in spring) can the library supply these books or is buying them a must.

 

[bhanson]

Originally posted by: JasonE4
You can't get them used? International versions? I haven't paid more than $200 for the past two years.

That is the used price for my books, it would be more if I bought them new. (from the bookstore)

Originally posted by: tanishalfelven
i was wondering i'll be going to start college soon (in spring) can the library supply these books or is buying them a must.

You may be able to do this with a few books, but I'm sure you'll still have to buy some. Even then, what if someone checks it out?

 

[Kirby]

My first semester I was stupid enough to buy them from the college bookstore. They had already sold out of the used books, so I had to buy all new. My math book alone was $160. I think I spent about $500 or $600.

 

[nageov3t]

my first semester, when I bought everything brand new at the school bookstore, it was about $600.

after that, I learned a few tricks... don't buy a book until the professor actually starts using it (sucks to spend $200 on a book that the professor never quite gets around to using), check and see if the campus library has a few copies of the book (usually the case if you're taking any lit courses, and you can always photocopy a section or two at a time as needed... a lot cheaper than buying a whole text book that a prof only teaches a handful of sections from), find people on campus that took the course already and buy their book from them before they sell it to the bookstore, and when all else fails, shop on ebay for the book.

 

[HombrePequeno]

It would be over $400 with the current schedule and about $380 with the schedule I might be taking next quarter. I'll probably be spending half of that though.

 

[FleshLight]

I'd say $40. Spent $120 on "Vector Mechancs: Statics and Dynamics" this quarter. I love having .pdf versions for math and ochem =P and pdfs of the solutions manuals =)