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JonnyStarks

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I've just finished my first term and I have some textbooks that I'm not going to need this term. I have a couple different places I could offload them but I'm kind of apprehensive about doing it as I guess I could reference them later on in my school career.

For all of you who have had textbooks you no longer need, did you sell them or keep them? And if you kept them, did you ever use them after the term you needed them?

Thanks!
 
I kept all the ones for my major or that I thought would be useful (basically all the math and physics ones). All the gen. ed. books I sold back.
 
Keep ones you find useful *within* your major (if you're SURE about that major)

Otherwise find a public bulletin board at your school and post all your books for sale there, price them a bit lower ($10-15) than the bookstore carries them. Selling them back to the bookstore will always amount in absolute crap money for them, and often then won't buy them back anyways because professors are obligated to change books/editions every couple of semesters.
 
I kept most of my psych books, but that was before the Internet became so popular. Although i've used them for reference more than a few times, i could find the same thing with Google.
 
Originally posted by: loki8481
depends.

I kept all the ones that had to do with my majors, and a couple others that were interesting.
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Same here...Really depends on the particular book though and I thought the reference was worth more than the money I'd get from selling it
 
i just got 300 before coming home for break. its nice cause when i buy em i always put em on my dads amex, when i sell i got cold cash 🙂
 
I kept all of the text books I used in any of my core curriculum courses. I'm a chemical engineer, so I kept most of my texts. I did sell a few, and some that I sold I wish I would have kept.

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If you go to grad school you can use them to fill up space on your office bookshelf. Facing an empty 8' high shelf is much more intimidating than looking at one that's already half-full of things you've read.

On a more practical level, they do come in handy for reference purposes--especially since you generally know where what you're looking for is located in that book.
 
I sell my books cause I need the cash and space(I haven't got the space for all those textbooks). I only keep books that I either really like or need as reference.
 
Sadly, I'm the kind of nerd that buys most of the required textbooks for my major, then about + 10-15 a year that arent even on the syllabus.

I need to post a pic of my book collection lol.
 
I sold, threw or gave away all my undergraduate textbooks. But I have kept all my graduate text books and they are in my bookcase at work. I actually use them from time to time.
 
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