Holy !@#! Textbooks Are Expensive

Discussion in 'The Rant Section' started by fearless_fx, Aug 27, 2007.

  1. bchanana

    bchanana Well-Known Member

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    totally, it sucks. i'm gonna suffer through buying books next week. but yeah when you go online to buy them, they're usually a lot cheaper!!
     
  2. there's always option of renting them..
     
  3. Phil

    Phil 香港 PA 社團 揸Fap 人

    lol text book costs heaps i spent like 300-400 sigh but u could try selling them back to teh second hand section, so when ur finished with it u could get like 50% back or something, ^^
     
  4. Phil

    Phil 香港 PA 社團 揸Fap 人

    lol @ renting , if u had to use a Book like all year and paid $10 a week , Hmmm u would prob spend more money renting then buy ing hte book, Im lucking a average text book cost like up to 60 here , how much is an average text book there? $ 100?
     
  5. its sent price per semester
     
  6. why yes they are.
     
  7. dim8sum

    dim8sum ♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪....

    I was just forced to buy a text book with the lecturer being the author -rolleyes
     
  8. Phil

    Phil 香港 PA 社團 揸Fap 人

    lol or u could try Borrowing then Photo copying every single page haha,
     
  9. hiake

    hiake Vardøgr of da E.Twin

    I am cheap enough to make good use of the libraries, public and university alike :D

    Probably saved me a few grands by now.
     
  10. and you're planning to spend those few grands saved up to buy PA member airline tickets right?? :D
     
  11. hiake

    hiake Vardøgr of da E.Twin

    For myself? Of course, and it's already used this past Christmas :( Now I have to save another few grand...

    I WANT VACATION!!!!
     
  12. aww wha hiake.. stop being so greedy now... we can all go to vacation with you.. :D
     
  13. hiake

    hiake Vardøgr of da E.Twin

    I am just a poor backpacker, with a book from the library... :D

    I hate to think that I wasted my taxdollars and tuitions on libraries... That's why I need to use it, A LOT.
     
  14. reno

    reno Well-Known Member

    nahhh ebooks ftw!!! =D
    lol

    i found one for my computing subjects and had my friend print it all out :p
    then it got binded together, and it was bigger than the book itself >.<
    but i saved 100+ =)
    lol
     
  15. hahah wha.. you asked your friend to print all those pages?? musta cost them hella money..
     
  16. watch.. imma invent a digital book scanner that scans and stores all texts from the book and Imma make Trillions of dollars!!!
     
  17. reno

    reno Well-Known Member

    oh they printed 2 copies :p
    its cheap to print, cos its at a place called "work" that they're at... :D

    so long as no1 knows... all good =D
    hahahaha
    the binding was nice... so i got like 3 separate binded sections
    the real book is like smaller than 1 lol
     
  18. reno

    reno Well-Known Member

    ohoh...
    u do know google's doing that alrady... lol
    except sometimes they accidentally leave the scanning marks of the persons hands and fingers in there lol
     
  19. -shock you liar!!!

    damn... hella stealing from the company as they say.. hahaha.. under the table benefits.. -lol
     
  20. kdotc

    kdotc 안녕하세요빅뱅K-Dragon입니다

    im on sem 4 and i didn't buy txtbook for this sem..see if i can get by..i mite need the wine book tho....my moneyyyyyyy need snowboard