well if u got friends that are already working get them to print out and bind the printouts for u =) saves u buying a book! and best of all... its FREEEEEE lol
Buy old editions of the book at the discount price...then sell it at the end of the year for the same price!! Old editions are 99% similar to the new editions...so you may lose 1-2% in the course for being poor/cheap...no big deal
sell them after you're finished with them. or buy it cheap online if you really need the book. sometimes if you're very familiar with the subject, then the txtbk's just used for referring. sometimes you can use the book at library for reference?
textbooks are such a ripped off. often times, not the whole entire book is need but cost so god damn much. not to mention they try to make new edition almost every year making it so expensive. i do not how much clothes i coulda gotten if it weren't for the texts....>.<
helll yeahhh its not only just the textbooks that are bad, i was required to buy the TI 89 calculator for my calculus class...just about 200 bucks after tax...so much for the ti83 plus getting u through all of high school and college...
^yeh its just a real big con..... the few i bought in my first year, i believed i opened them 5 times max..... just go to the library before anyone else gets there!
I did buy any textbooks ^^ I go to people's house to study -_- So I could get a Wii and be able to achieve my academic goals. w00t
American textbooks cost a bomb. Luckily there are 'special editions' for students in some countries which are legal, cheap reprints of the original. I'm fortunate to be living in one of these 'poorer' countries.
I personally have a way of saving... hehe I get my friends and their siblings to hold teh book I need on the school library. therefore the books I need are always with me (loaned by a different person) but then sometimes it gets confusing.... But I've gotten accustomed to this system... haha... Asians are cheap!!?? @.@
Buy the international edition of the textbook. Cost half and resell it online for more than you pay for.
I'm lucky I choosen the same thing (economic) as my big sis. Only brought books for about $200 in two years
Textbooks is the open secret of how poorly paid professors are able to feed themselves. They routinely change a few words, add a colored diagram (replacing a black and white one) and then call it a new "edition" making all the previous ones obsolete. Thankfully, there's the internet. Just about any book can be found in PDF form if you look hard enough. And I'm not talking about some cheesy photo copied pages either, but rather the entire brand new edition in PDF form that you can then load onto your laptop. Makes carrying much easier. Troll around the newsgroup <alt.binaries.e-book.technical> and you'll get a general idea. Read this guide an educational source and look at what it says about what NOT to do: http://media.libsyn.com/media/financialaidpodcast/cheapcollegetextbooks.pdf Also, despite the recent closure of Textbook Torrents, it was received by students like its Napster kin; people hungered for it, and it grew from a tiny little site to claim over 70,000 members before being taken down by threat of law suits. Eventually, another host presumably foreign and in a country where US laws can't touch, would take over. Frankly, I don't see why North Korea doesn't try to do this.
