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re: Time to bitch about book prices
Posted on 1/15/16 at 3:12 pm to Cosmo
Posted on 1/15/16 at 3:12 pm to Cosmo
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I usually could find the older edition with the same shite in it for like $20 online
The site with all the online books has 2 editions available for each textbook of mine loaded on there. My first class I assumed we were using the latest edition and used that. Realized last week of the class I was supposed to be using the second to latest one. Didn't make a difference
As for old books, only one I kept from nursing school was my Taber's
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Posted on 1/15/16 at 3:20 pm to Lionnation1993
I can't do online book reading or test taking. Just doesn't work for me. When I had classes with computerized tests, I'd ADA it and make them let me take it on paper
Posted on 1/15/16 at 3:22 pm to Hammertime
You can't put a price on a good education
Posted on 1/15/16 at 3:24 pm to Scooba
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Don't worry, you can sell them back at the end of the semester for $60.
Yeah but I remember how nice it was to head for the bar with a cool couple hundred bucks from selling back books, totally ignoring I'd paid 1000 for them
Posted on 1/15/16 at 3:25 pm to Hammertime
I'm the opposite. Love how everything in grad school is online
Posted on 1/15/16 at 3:27 pm to Hammertime
There's a bio professor at LSU that makes you buy HIS edition of the bio 1201 book. Which spoiler alert, is nearly impossible to find used. Costed me about $200 if I remember correctly.
Posted on 1/15/16 at 3:27 pm to Hammertime
It really is an immoral racket. Especially when the professor you have wrote the book.
Posted on 1/15/16 at 3:28 pm to Hammertime
Which CFD book is that?
Posted on 1/15/16 at 3:32 pm to Swoopin
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It really is an immoral racket. Especially when the professor you have wrote the book.
Do you remember having to go to the copy store to get the printed out copy of a professor's book for like 100 dollars? That shite happened at both AU and UGA and was pure profit
Posted on 1/15/16 at 3:33 pm to CFDoc
Posted on 1/15/16 at 3:38 pm to The Pirate King
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Costed
The flagship school of Louisiana will take anyone.
Posted on 1/15/16 at 3:38 pm to Pettifogger
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Do you remember having to go to the copy store to get the printed out copy of a professor's book for like 100 dollars? That shite happened at both AU and UGA and was pure profit
I had a Biology 101 professor back in the day who made a 300 page bound book for his class. It was literally copies of the power point slides he used in lecture with strategically placed blanks. He changed a couple random pages each semester to make you buy a new one. $400 for a fricking fill in the blank book.
Now the newest spin on taking all your book money is a fricking online access key for "interactive" books and assignments. That's worth a cool $150+.
This post was edited on 1/15/16 at 3:40 pm
Posted on 1/15/16 at 3:40 pm to Hammertime
You guys are silly paying for textbooks. I get every single one of mine for free although they are e-books. Saved thousands so far 
Posted on 1/15/16 at 3:42 pm to HamzooReb
I'd gladly torrent the shite out of an eBook, but most of my classes now are the book plus access to assignments or tests included.
Posted on 1/15/16 at 3:43 pm to BluegrassBelle
Just to do homework for one class this semester, I have to pay $75 to Mcgraw-Hill for a dog shite homework website. That's just to turn in my homework
Posted on 1/15/16 at 3:46 pm to Hammertime
One of my psych courses is using Pearson and the site is set up where it has to show that you viewed it in order to get credit. Then, like you said, there's the assignments on the site as well (i.e. Quizzes, essays, etc) that you can't complete elsewhere. It's their shitty way of getting around books rentals.
Posted on 1/15/16 at 3:47 pm to BluegrassBelle
Yea the access codes have been the only thing I have had to buy but they aren't but like $60 per class that I need them in.
Posted on 1/15/16 at 3:48 pm to Hammertime
That one isn't bad.
Depending on your teacher, shouldn't be a time killer. The Hoffman book is the one to fear.
Depending on your teacher, shouldn't be a time killer. The Hoffman book is the one to fear.
Posted on 1/15/16 at 3:49 pm to Hammertime
Abebooks.com international editions FTW
Posted on 1/15/16 at 3:54 pm to Bottom9
I had a meeting with 2 Apple reps a few months back. Sales guy told me Southern has been pushing instructors to create their own "book" and publish it on iTunesU for the students to access free of charge.
Most institutions have the ability to create e-material themselves but too many kickbacks are given to instructors by publishers for there to be any real change.
Most institutions have the ability to create e-material themselves but too many kickbacks are given to instructors by publishers for there to be any real change.
This post was edited on 1/15/16 at 3:58 pm
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