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College textbooks...

doomsknight62doomsknight62 Member Posts: 239 ✭✭✭
edited September 2002 in General Discussion
I spent over $400 on textbooks a couple weeks ago, and that's considered getting off easy around here.
Anyway, I opened my criminology text to the second chapter today, and someone had gone through and written their notes for the course, in black ink, all over the pages. You can hardly read the book! I paid $90 for this book alone, and some lazy individual had the gall to WRITE IN IT.
If I ever see anyone doing this in class there's going to be a fight.

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  • pikeal1pikeal1 Member Posts: 2,707
    edited November -1
    not the students fault Doomsknight...the fault of the moron at the bookstore that bought it back from him.

    sometimes its easier to scribble notes on the margins of the books...sometimes it ruins the whole thing. the folks that inspect the books when they are bought back should note the difference.
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  • bhayes420bhayes420 Member Posts: 1,314 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Aren't college text books a rip-off! I am currently taking classes toward my D.Min. Spend about as much for text books and "requried reading" books as I do for tuition. But I am with Saxon. I always buy new. Cannot stand writing in my texts! But then again, I usually end up keeping mine for reference material.
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  • hillbillyhippiechichillbillyhippiechic Member Posts: 97 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I buy mine on Ebay for a very small fraction of the price. For example my books for the class I'm taking this semester were going to cost $83 used from the college and I paid $27 for shipping and everything on Ebay!

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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    My texts were all medical, including anatomy... (still love disecting).. total cost for a year including lab fees.. 2500.00.. you got off easy....new is the only way to go...


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  • gruntledgruntled Member Posts: 8,218 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I found that someone that had done a GOOD job of high-lighting & note taking made the books more valuable. I would go through the used books looking for that kind.
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  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    The thing I hate the most is you buy a new book for $90 cause they ran out of used one's they usually sell for $80, really. And then when your done with it they buy it back from you for $20 and resell it for $80. A whole $60 profit, I'm in the wrong business.

    If I'm wrong please correct me, I won't be offended.

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  • treedawgtreedawg Member Posts: 321 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    i always liked the notes in used books. i found them to be most helpful, but that's just me.
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