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Posted on 1/26/16 at 3:16 pm to SurfTide
Have you tried renting your books through Amazon?
Also, if you had to buy your books you always have the option of selling them back. It's riskier than renting, but still gets some of your money back.
Also, if you had to buy your books you always have the option of selling them back. It's riskier than renting, but still gets some of your money back.
Posted on 1/26/16 at 3:16 pm to LNCHBOX
god i hope not.
as they are
go figure
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You're comically irrational when it comes to engineers on here
as they are
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I'm an engineer btw
go figure
Posted on 1/26/16 at 3:17 pm to SurfTide
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I'm currently pursuing an engineering degree after a few years in the Navy
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Not the tuition, just the books. WTF
is the navy paying the tuition?
Posted on 1/26/16 at 3:18 pm to SurfTide
Bigwords.com
Seriously, you'll thank me later. They compare every single book buying or renting site on the market.
Seriously, you'll thank me later. They compare every single book buying or renting site on the market.
Posted on 1/26/16 at 3:19 pm to SurfTide
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we will only be covering 10 chapters out of 22
Yeah but you have a lot of material left to read on the toilet so you'll save money on that end. It all evens out.
Posted on 1/26/16 at 3:24 pm to SurfTide
Just wait until you go to sell them back. Over half of them will be "old" editions and you will be told they are worth a fraction of the original price.
Posted on 1/26/16 at 3:28 pm to SurfTide
quote:are you sure the code wasn't included? Most of the time when I had a book cost that much it at least came with the access code.
My physics textbook costs $280, not including the required $80 web homework access code
Posted on 1/26/16 at 3:42 pm to Deactived
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does every engineering student feel the need to tell everyone they are in engineering?
Yeah, engineering is the crossfit of college majors
Posted on 1/26/16 at 3:46 pm to SurfTide
You'll use a lot of the textbooks for successive classes. The main difference between new and old editions are some numbers in the problems and correcting spelling mistakes. As far as I know, physics and calculus haven't changed much in the past 10 years
Posted on 1/26/16 at 3:52 pm to SurfTide
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Luckily for me, the GI Bill takes care of a lot of it
Government leech.
Posted on 1/26/16 at 3:54 pm to SurfTide
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I cannot believe how big of a scam college textbooks are... it's insane.
It's not a scam. Most academic publishers barely break even.
Posted on 1/26/16 at 4:00 pm to Ed Osteen
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Just wait until you go to sell them back. Over half of them will be "old" editions and you will be told they can't be bought back.
FIFY
Posted on 1/26/16 at 4:05 pm to TN Bhoy
Who makes all of the money then?
Posted on 1/26/16 at 4:08 pm to SurfTide
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That comes to a total of $420
So about what my grandfather paid to go to college for all 4 years total.
Posted on 1/26/16 at 4:08 pm to SurfTide
If you do not need an online portal for homework, Abebooks.com
Same exact book, but the international version. It will come in a poorly wrapped brown paper package from Pakistan...it's scary to open, but worth it to get the same exact book in black and white for $5 vs $180.
I know from a friend.
Same exact book, but the international version. It will come in a poorly wrapped brown paper package from Pakistan...it's scary to open, but worth it to get the same exact book in black and white for $5 vs $180.
I know from a friend.
Posted on 1/26/16 at 4:09 pm to SurfTide
I've always wondered if the professor or department gets kickbacks for using the latest textbook. I had a few level headed professors who understood how expensive text books were and required us to use earlier issue books we could find online for only a few bucks.
Posted on 1/26/16 at 4:20 pm to BabyTac
I wonder if he made money off the sales?
Posted on 1/26/16 at 4:21 pm to TN Bhoy
quote:It is a scam and that is a load. Every controversial product out there seems to have the same excuse.
It's not a scam. Most academic publishers barely break even.
"Well, we barely break even."
College textbooks are a massive racket. The fact that they release the exact same book almost yearly and call it a "new edition" is one bit of proof to the matter.
Posted on 1/26/16 at 4:25 pm to SurfTide
Thanks for all the tips fellas, I knew this board would have some good workarounds.
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