I just paid $436.59 for textbooks for only two classes...

psychkub

psychkub

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... what sucks is that I still have to buy two more textbooks for one of the classes, which will give me an approximate grand total of around $556.59

Oh yeah, the classes are Calculus I and Organic Chemistry.

What's the highest you've paid for textbooks?
 
That WAS off of amazon.com hahahhaa

Had I purchased them from the school bookstore I would have slashed my wrists.
 
dude find that shit online if you can!? what you can do while you wait for them is use a book at the library if it's there!
 
I assume you went to the bookstore? Bad idea, man. Going to the bookstore is like walking into Harlem with two grand in cash and looking for hookers. You're gonna get ripped off. And I don't mean ripped off as in "Oh shit, I got a bad deal". I mean ripped off as in "Oh shit, someone clubbed me in the back of the skull with a tire iron, stripped me of my anal virginity and took all of my cash and credit cards".

Here's my advice. Return your books immediately. Search for them on Amazon, and for each one click on the "Buy New and Used from $..." button. My books were $410 at the bookstore (almost entirely Used too), they were $180 online.
 


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"Calculus: Early Transcendentals (Stewart's Calculus Series)"

James Stewart; Hardcover; $137.17

Sold by: Amazon.com, LLC



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"Student Solutions Manual for Single Variable Calculus: Early Transcendentals and Calculus: Early Transcendental"

Daniel Anderson; Paperback; $37.75

Sold by: Amazon.com, LLC



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"Organic Chemistry"

William H. Brown; Hardcover; $175.96

Sold by: Amazon.com, LLC



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"Student Study Guide and Solutions Manual for Brown/Foote/Iverson's Organic Chemistry, 4th"

BROWN/FOOTE; Paperback; $51.14

Sold by: Amazon.com, LLC

Subtotal of Items:

$402.02

Shipping & Handling:

$6.96

Super Saver Discount

-$6.96

Prime Offer

-$0.00

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Total before tax:

$402.02

Estimated Tax:

$34.57

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Total for this Order:





$436.59



 
At least I got free shipping. Hahahha!

That's not even including tutition. I'm gonna have to set up a payment plan to be able to pay that shit off.

I might have to put a hold on getting a season pass this winter :-(
 
That Calc book is for Calc I, II, and III so it will save you money down the road assuming you take all three calc classes
 
Ditto.... actually the organic book is for three quarters worth of organic chemistry so in essence you're right and have devalued my rant post.

:-D
 
Dude. Sell your anal virginity. Honestly, it sounds like the worst thing ever, and it pretty much is... but holding off on buying a season's pass is the one thing that could be worse. Or you could find something less painful and degrading to sell. Your call dude, I'm just saying.
 
Brand new math books are very very expensive but the catch is most of the time you barely use them...i.e. my last years cal 1 book
 
I don't sell books that relate to my major. I add them to my library so that I can access them later in case I need to review concepts.
 
Oh wow that's pretty ridiculous. I paid around 450 for 5 books this semester, still the most I've spend so far on books in college.
 
i worked at the bookstore at school last year and there were some custom books written by the professor for a certain class that ran around almost 400 dollars. Just paperbound stuff...crazy shit.
 
Probably because the books had a bunch of figures they had to pay for, if profs just do it the legalish way and put them on their website the books are much much cheaper~
 
YEah I spend over $1000 per year on textbooks for uni..

I feel so strongly about the topic as well, i'm convinced the lecturers are recieving some form of kick-back from the publishers which is why they change the required edition every semester (essentially leaving the book unchanged, but having new case-studies or something)

This means it is impossible to buy a 2nd hand book, impossible to sell my old books, plus it means i'm out of pocket $1000.

FUCKING annoying.
 
i spent 800 dollars on my books and only one of them is new because it is customized for my school
 
Bah, I'm not in college but my sister is going to college and living at home. She got all her college books from craigslist, book stores that sell older, used books (which are exactly the same as most of the new ones, just different covers and stuff). So many of the classes don't even use books.
 
I traded a cheap book my friend needed for an expensive book I needed haha, but yeah I havent bought textbooks yet. Only need two and I doubt ill pay more than 150, thank god~
 
mine were about 250 for all my books but thats because i have to spend money on other stuff
 
I don't understand...is the new textbook seriously "required" or is that just BS. If they just change the cover and a few pictures in a book every semester...whats the sense of buying it when you already have that book. Is it seriously mandatory? Damn universities...
 
i paid $500 for 5 books at the bookstore. but im returning one for like 200 and getting another one for 100. so i paid $400 for 5 books haha
 
Holy fucking monkey balls. I am going to pay $117.35, maybe $165 for books this semester (that is new at bookstore btw). I only need them for 2 courses. I have never used a book for any math course yet. I need physics and oceanography this term.

Also my tuition is $1335 for 5 courses, woot.
 
Im majoring in pharmacy and i am required to have 3 different chem books and 2 bio books, as well as all my other classes i am taking...
 
Damn that sucks I'm taking six classes but I only needed three books and I ended up paying $135 for all of them.
 
they call it required, but no - the content, not really.

The think you must have though is the case studies which change, as they are often used for assessment..

And they never put the case studies online because of copyright bullshit.

They are just money hungry fucks. They charge ~$1000 per subject and then expect students to come up with another $100-150 per book.
 
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