Anyone buying books for school yet?

[RyanbabZ71]

Well i thought i would start the school year off early and buy books wed afternoon.  3 darn books (2 of my classes luckily dont have any books) and they cost $375  :0 1 was for heat transfer, another for kinematics, and lastly for machine design.

 

Only 2 semesters left I keep telling myself  

 

What are you all paying?

[TheScaryGuy]

I think my sis spent about 700-1000 on books, Calc 3 and a buncha phorensics(Sp?) books.  How anyone could want to work in a lab looking at dirt n stuff is beyond me.

[Jen]

yikes! I dont even want to begin to think about what my books are going to cost me....I'm broke rightnow as it is!

 

Gig'em Ags!!

[Firetiger(MN)]

Aren't engineering books great?  

 

Too bad I wasn't a history major or something along those lines.  I doubt they even need books.  lol.

[D-Max]

When I was in school (2years ago) I was spending close to that too... 400-600 For Computer science books... In the end they make great weight for the back of the truck in the winter as I told my profs...  

[AU Chevy]

My classes dont start till the 19th...I probably won't buy the books till the first test.  Seems like I don't ever use the books anyway, just notes.

 

Of course its not like I am taking any hard classes right now, those start next semester.

[chevy4x4trucks]

I don't even want to think about the books right now.  I just paid for my 12 credits of classes and right now I've got about 200 bucks left in my checking account, and I see that my car payment just came in the mail.  I'm definetly going to be needing this paycheck today.

[MarkD]

College Books have always been bad.

 

One instance that still chaps me is a Calculus book.  4 classes used it Calc. 201,202,301,302.  So people buying it would think,"OK it's $200, but I can use it for 2 full years".  Well every semester, the book company had a new revision, so the book store wouldn't buy it back (even at the customary 50%).  My second year, the professor even required the new version(it had different examples and appendicies), so I ended up buying this $200 book twice.  

 

Been there dude.  I feel your pain

[SilveradoWV]

My school wont even let you buy books until a week before classes or something???ANd that new version kills, I have a stack of new books here that are no longer used! They offer like $4 for them and since they have some useful info I just keep them! My computer science books usually cost about $120 a book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[NeXuS1]

good thing my latest cisco books cover semester 3 and 4 so i'm set for that. but i still have to buy books for 3 other classes. but that waits till mid august.

[ekonk]

Glad I'm out, that's one of those things I don't miss at all.  I once had to pay $72 for a paperback.  But my favorite was a $100+ book that the prof didn't have us open all semester.  Not ONCE.   :angry: We were all VERY happy about that... :angry:

 

Good luck to those still going through that stuff.

[Elwood]

Aren't engineering books great?  

 

Too bad I wasn't a history major or something along those lines.  I doubt they even need books.  lol.

I wish that were true.  I've been lucky I've always gotten used History books, but they still cost $50-$80 each used.

 

I've got another week and a half to two weeks before I get screwed by the lovely book stored.  Oh well.

 

Becky and I spent around $550 last semester for six or seven books, and they were all used except one.  

[maestro1]

Hey, I know what you guys mean!!  It seem like some things never change.  I went through the same thing years ago at K-State.  I tried to buy used books whenever possible, especially in the classes that were not directly related to my major.  Believe it or not, I still use several of my music related texts as reference.  

 

I got really steamed a couple of years ago when I was taking a graduate level class to renew my teaching certificate.  The instructor was using a new text ($85), so obviously I had to buy it.  At the end of the semester, the college decided to use a different text the next semester.  The wonderful book store offered to buy our "new" texts back for $5!!!  I told them I would throw the  #@*&$$  thing away before I would let them have it for a measly $5!  Sure can't understand why they were offended by that,LOL!!    Bob