lol silly, its just an expression -sweat but yeah.. next summer i tihnk im gonna try to find the e-books and torrent them, this is ridiculous.. <_<
Yea its a common expression that people use to express that its expensive. You can express it more if you said "It cost me my first born"
Yeah high school text books are expensive, they should sell the damn CD so we can print it out. that would save a lot of money.
for me it cost around 1.5k euro for books in 3 years time... my study only takes 3 years :S but when i continue my study it gonna cost even more for books ><
oh gawd >.< i still need to go buy my uni textbooks gahhh Life is going to be HEAVY cause those textbooks are like ...the Campbell Biology textbooks, if anyone knows what i mean
500 is little..........i have to effing buy a chef uniform this sem and its gonna cost like 3 bills.....and then gota buy txtbooks on top of that.....dammnnit
doesn't ur uni have a section on their website that allows students to resell used textbooks? that is VERY useful if they do have it. i stopped buying textbooks after the first year. if i couldn't buy it used then i just photocopied. it's a bitch to stand there and photocopy but i usually end up saving at least a bill on each textbook. majority of the time, u won't even use half of the book. as for class manuals/lab books, i just usually find classmates to split the price. buy one copy, photocopy from it. u will save a TONNE of money that way.
most of my textbooks cost about $100AUD... one $150AUD... :O and that's like the biggest book i've ever seen!! literally 10cm thick... this semester most books same as last.... but next year is gonna be pretty crap... need to buy more textbooks again..:( but at my uni some courses make they're own book ... so it's like $20 each and only has the stuff u need to know, no extra stuff i like those books
Because they always release a newer edition EVERY SINGLE YEAR. And yeah, I have older editions of the first 2 books... I spend next to nothing for most of my textbooks since I just borrow them in the library (instructors SHOULD have a reserved copy in the library, you can ask them to do that if it hasn't been done) And manuals are all photocopied with the entire tutorial/practical section, and those reading/readers? I just ask for the bibliography list and print them off the internet, since most universities ALREADY purchased the copy right to them... No point in paying twice. But that only applies to Ontario, not sure about other provinces... But then again, it's a whole new level of inconvenience if you want to save the big bucks. And I almost forgot, never buy any CS books because they are always the worst reference you can possibly find (CS instructors are VERY talented in finding crappy useless textbooks, or they just sold their soul to the publishers). Just go online and look for a good tutorial/reference book and run with it.
normally text book are getting more and more expensive when newer and newer edition is released, but i see those teaching and exercises there also are about the same also.... Thats why i rather go library and borrow those textbooks or i try ask for second hand text books.
was i ever glad i moved out of montreal... only reason is because i dont HAVE to go to cegep.. haha wind
i understand your pain...at least you only have textbooks...i study arch...520 something - that's like the materials cost for one studio project...:S and i have four term projects usually plus all my textbooks....sigh two terms ago i ate cereal and crappy frozen dinner only for two weeks...
I just spent a total amount of ~$434 on my textbooks for this semester. I bought 2 of my most expensive books through half.com and saved ~$140-$150 total off the bat. Two out of the three literature books I needed were available in the local library, so I saved about ~$15-30 there. The remaining books were either not available in the library or are custom-made from the university, so it couldn't be helped. But overall, I saved about ~$155-$180 this semester by simply checking whether or not each course text was available either online or in the library and then go on from there. If you are to do this from the beginning of freshmen year in college to when you graduate, you can easily save hundreds and thousands of dollars altogether.
out of my 5 classes, I only needed to buy books for 2 of them, so only have spend $122.50 this semester.
wahhh i remember htat cells and molecular biology textbook!! lolz except i got lucky and borrowed it =D tho i've still got most of the textbooks i bought... except other friends end up borrowing them all... but yeah... i prefer new textbooks over old, it feels nicer reading it (or wen u attempt to anyway)
i hate how some profs use different books every year.. now we're forced to buy new books that are hella expensive... if any of you have this book: Calculus : One Variable (Hardcover) by Satunino L. Salas (Author), Garret J. Etgen (Author), Einar Hille (Author) # Publisher: Wiley; 10 edition (Dec 4 2006) # Language: English # ISBN-10: 0470073330 # ISBN-13: 978-0470073339 and youre in canada, wanna sell it to me? -lol
