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So. Many. Books.

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PrinceofWands

Lifer
So I cut the number of classes I usually take basically in half because I'm burning out on such a huge credit load. I go in today to buy books for the 4 classes I have left and end up with 27 books/coursepacks for a total cost of just under $400.

Granted, it's a lot less than my record (41 books/coursepacks @ $735), but still way too much to keep me from going insane this semester.

*sigh*

8-(



How'd you all make out? (those of you who started back to school anyway)
 
In my experience, you can save a ton of money by buying from half.com and the Amazon marketplace.

Except for those profs who write their own spiral bound books and only sell them through the school bookstore, grrr....
 
Originally posted by: Special K
In my experience, you can save a ton of money by buying from half.com and the Amazon marketplace.

Except for those profs who write their own spiral bound books and only sell them through the school bookstore, grrr....
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I could have saved a bit...probably gotten it down to about $300 or so, but I hate having to go all over for books. Easier to do it all in one trip. Not to mention with gas as much as it is, and shipping charges, it might not end up saving me anything in the end.
 
So since your time was so valuable, how much money did you make in that time?

If you're going to buy books from the central book store in school, it's going to be more expensive. That's the tradeoff between cost and convenience.
 
Wait, 27 books for $400 books? That's pretty damn cheap. Are they regular reading books or textbooks?
 
Originally posted by: ChaoZ
Wait, 27 books for $400 books? That's pretty damn cheap. Are they regular reading books or textbooks?
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A mix. History and Poli-Sci mostly. With social science stuff you often end up with cheaper books, but a huge number of them.
 
Originally posted by: dopcombo
So since your time was so valuable, how much money did you make in that time?

If you're going to buy books from the central book store in school, it's going to be more expensive. That's the tradeoff between cost and convenience.
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It's really not so much the money (although that was certainly a lot for me to spend)...it's having 27 books for just 4 classes. Mind you, that doesn't include the 10-30+ books I'll have to read for each class that requires a research paper (but at least I can get most of those from libraries and not have to buy them). The whole point of dropping down to 4 classes was not to have so much to do.
 
or dont buy books at all. just read them at the library. or just pay attention in class.

if you really need a book for a class, get it. if not, dont sweat it.
 
Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
Originally posted by: ChaoZ
Wait, 27 books for $400 books? That's pretty damn cheap. Are they regular reading books or textbooks?
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A mix. History and Poli-Sci mostly. With social science stuff you often end up with cheaper books, but a huge number of them.
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27 books for $400 is still pretty damn cheap and I'm a poli sci major (one of em). I woulda figured that 1-2 books would be 80-90$ ish and the rest cheap (20-40$)
 
Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
So I cut the number of classes I usually take basically in half because I'm burning out on such a huge credit load. I go in today to buy books for the 4 classes I have left and end up with 27 books/coursepacks for a total cost of just under $400.

Granted, it's a lot less than my record (41 books/coursepacks @ $735), but still way too much to keep me from going insane this semester.

*sigh*

8-(



How'd you all make out? (those of you who started back to school anyway)
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hah that's nothing.. i had probably 10-15 books this year, totalled over $800
 
Heh, some of my professors publish their own textbooks (like, REAL textbooks, not that spiral bound bullshit) - they just toss us the manuscript PDF. At MOST, I end up with 2 books/class.
 
Originally posted by: Special K
In my experience, you can save a ton of money by buying from half.com and the Amazon marketplace.

Except for those profs who write their own spiral bound books and only sell them through the school bookstore, grrr....
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I'm really hating the teachers who sell their own thing through a bookstore and only bundle it into a package with other things... Spanish cost me a little over $100...
 
What do you do while you wait for your books to ship to you? professors have been assigning crap already that will be due soon, does the library usually have all the textbooks?
 
I spent ~£40 on books for my first year ($75 or so I think).
But I didn't really need to, and some of those were new, so I could have saved by buying 2nd hand.
I'm hoping to only need 1 or 2 this year.
 
Take a term off and work during that term off. I know my school lets you take a certain number of terms off. They will also let you take less than 12 credits if you want to be a part time student. If it's a money issue, just take your time IMO. Or work hard during the summer and save up.
 
Im going to the bookstore at the University tomorrow to see what it's like. They better not be too much or Im gonna be a sad panda.
 
Originally posted by: RedArmy
Im going to the bookstore at the University tomorrow to see what it's like. They better not be too much or Im gonna be a sad panda.
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DANGER WILL ROBINSON DANGER!

Books at the bookstore are ALWAYS expensive. Usually, a good Uni. will have a bookstore like right across from campus with 10% of prices, at least. I suggest go there.
 
Only spending 300 on books this semester. Last year(junior year) was INSANE on costs. ~2200 bucks for 2 semesters of books. Which was only about 20 books. Yea. Ouch.

EDIT: 2000th post 😛 in a little over a year 😛
 
I worked my arse off over the summer to save up some money for books. I was expecting to drop another 7 or 800 on books like last semester, but it ended up only being $350, for 5 classes. Which is a good thing since now my truck is acting up and needs to hit the shop to make sure that I can keep commuting the fscking 60 miles round trip to my university. And I need new shoes because my current ones all but fell apart today. Whee college.
 
I'm reserving some books as I type. Do you guys actually buy those recomended study aid books? I guess it depends on how smart you are. =\

10 books total for me for 4 courses. Calc I itself was 5 books (3 required, 2 study aids). I don't understand why you need that many books for one course. Can't I just buy one fat book?

Total $872. Damn that's a lot of money.
 
Six books for a total of 350 bones.

Anyhow, today was my first day of school. Between History and English, I have 10 essays assigned, with the first one due Wednesday.

<----- pwned
 
Originally posted by: Cloud Strife
First day and already 10 essays assigned? I'm not looking forward to college now. 😱
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The history essays are eight pages minimum... and it's only a GE class. 🙁

 
Originally posted by: MBentz
Originally posted by: Cloud Strife
First day and already 10 essays assigned? I'm not looking forward to college now. 😱
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The history essays are eight pages minimum... and it's only a GE class. 🙁
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The profesor/TA will only read the first page I believe?
 
i start at OSU on September 20th.. and I have 5 classes (1 is a university survey class, which is 1 credit hour)... another one is for Military Science (Army ROTC), which takes up 2 credit hours.
I have 17 credit hours this quarter, meaning 3 meaning takes up 14 credit hours. My 4 classes total (not counting freshman class) is 16 credit hours. damn thing about quarter system is that forces classes to take more time per week since its only 10 weeks instead of 16.
 
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