Poll: Do you sell your textbooks or keep them?

[Jpark]

I have to keep my books for reference.

 

[kyparrish]

I sold them unless they were really good, or I thought I'd use them later in life.

 

[MX2]

I gave mine away to others who were in need

 

[Slammy1]

I had one of those scholarships that paid for everything, which is bad in the sense I had to go back to buy the books I really wanted.

 

[mzkhadir]

depends on the class

 

[timosyy]

I really, really, really want to sell them back (out of state is burning a hole in my wallet)

On the other hand, I'm also really, really, really lazy.

 

[Justin218]

If they give me anything worthwhile, I'll sell it back. A lot of books I buy are int'l edition and are cheap to begin with so I keep them.

 

[imported_Condor]

Sell them while they still have some value. I kept a couple and they got superceded before I used them. Keeping them is a waste of time and space.

 

[The Green Bean]

I give them away...But Ive never had to buy expensive text books ($50 at most).

 

[Juno]

i sell them because i didn't buy them. 🙂

 

[Baked]

Depends on the subject. Most of the time, no.

 

[Ronstang]

I never sold them back because the bookstores would give you a few pawltry dollars per book and then mark them for resale at about 80% of new so I figured I wasn't going to reward the damn theives. This was quite a few years ago though also and I wasn't poor anyway so it wasn't an issue for me at least.

 

[saahmed]

I just finished my first semester. I dont understand why I would need to keep them. I doubt I will ever go back to read them. I guess I will try to sell what I can.

 

[tokamak]

I'm a physics major, so I keep physics and math books. I'll also keep interesting fiction or history books if I didn't get a chance to read them all the way through during the semester. Other than that, I sell them back.

 

[clamum]

I'll sell if the book was for a class I didn't care about or if I feel that the book won't be benefical in the future, otherwise I'll save it for reference.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Originally posted by: tokamak
I'm a physics major, so I keep physics and math books. I'll also keep interesting fiction or history books if I didn't get a chance to read them all the way through during the semester. Other than that, I sell them back.

Good point. I TRY to keep engineering/physics/math books, and I don't really care about my lit/history/philosophy books but those are usually so beatup that I can't really sell them.... loss of money for me =P

 

[Xylitol]

Sell Sell Sell Sell

 

[Jeeper94]

Originally posted by: zainali
sell them. bad memories.

:laugh: I keep most of them, but I always sell my math books *shutters*.

 

[ElFenix]

i keep em because the bookstore doesn't pay crap and i'm too lazy to ebay.

 

[RaDragon]

I sell some and I keep the ones directly related to my field of study... I keep them for posterity! 🙂

 

[Eeezee]

I keep most of my books, they're good for when I need to go back and read simpler concepts in order to better understand the more advanced ones. I also don't have that many other books, so at least it doesn't look like I'm completely uncultured when someone looks at my bookcase...

 

[Xyclone]

Originally posted by: hdeck
sell most of them. very few are worth keeping.

 

[acemcmac]

They have to offer me at least 50% if they want my book. I almost killed the book cart people today when they offered me 10$ and 15$ respectivley for a book that I just got from them for 120 at the begining of the semester :|

 

[Ronstang]

Originally posted by: acemcmac
They have to offer me at least 50% if they want my book. I almost killed the book cart people today when they offered me 10$ and 15$ respectivley for a book that I just got from them for 120 at the begining of the semester :|

That is exactly why I never sold my books back. They give you $10 then mark it up to $100. They are thieves, simple thieves. I sitll have all of my textbooks stored at my lakehouse. They are pretty old now so I am going to stage a book burning next time I am up there in a week or two to have some fun and clear some space.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

i plan on keeping....for future reference

i think ive spent £300 odd maybe more on text books and software for my course. infact it will be more

matlab and solid edge came to £100.

then i have 5-6 books all at least £40 each