I hate buying school books

[Reaper]

Dang, WTF? I'm certainly not looking forward to college.

 

[DeMoN]

At least you got books. My "books" are just printed, hole-punched papers that you have to put into a binder yourself. And it costs the same as a regular textbook.

 

[SkankyYankee]

Do a buy in with your friends in the class and then locate and abuse the free copier in your college, works.

Or if you have laptops in class use a flatbed scanner and try to return them ASAP.

The more money you save in college, the better.

 

[ryan]

Do a buy in with your friends in the class and then locate and abuse the free copier in your college, works.

Or if you have laptops in class use a flatbed scanner and try to return them ASAP.

The more money you save in college, the better.

I wish I had a free copier here. Everything is hooked up to our ID card with the little chip deal. Money Money Money $$$!

 

[m3rox]

Does your school have a book buy-back program at the end of the term? Mine does, you don't get nearly as much as you put into the books, but you do get some of it back.

 

[ryan]

Does your school have a book buy-back program at the end of the term? Mine does, you don't get nearly as much as you put into the books, but you do get some of it back.

Yes mine does too, but it's not even worth selling your books back to the school. Especially for me because my books are always in almost perfect condition.

 

[MacGnG]

my college has gotten competition with 2 book sellers right up the street... i got lots of $$$ selling books to them instead of the school book store

 

[ryan]

I just found my two history class texts on amazon for way less. Even with "priority" shipping it comes to about 20 dollars less than my school bookstore, haha!

 

[UltraMagnus]

jeees......

just pirate them, I managed to find all my computer engineering textbooks on torrents and such. which would have cost me >£200 if i had not.

If you don't carry a laptop buy a cheap, old second hand laser printer. a second hand printer will cost you about £50 and re manufactured cartridges cost about £20 for one that will last about 10,000 pages, still cheaper than the texbooks....

all this was a waste of effort for me though... I have not needed to read a textbook once yet and I am almost at the end of my first semester. If i want to look something up i just use wikipedia lol

 

[Psyfira]

I never brought all of the recommened textbooks; I used to wait a few weeks to figure out which modules I would find difficult or if the lecture notes were crap and only brought to ones I needed. One of the advantages of taking a computing course is that most of the stuff you need to know can be found on Google.

 

[Anakir]

I just buy it. I keep most of my textbooks incase I need it for reference. I sell the rest that I don't want. I always buy 2nd hand unless no one sells it. But damn. Textbooks are really expensive. I wouldn't pirate books 'cause I can't stand sitting in front of a laptop reading for hours. It causes too much stress on my eyes. I rather read the actual thing.

 

[FAST6191]

I never brought all of the recommened textbooks; I used to wait a few weeks to figure out which modules I would find difficult or if the lecture notes were crap and only brought to ones I needed. One of the advantages of taking a computing course is that most of the stuff you need to know can be found on Google.

Same here (although not computing for me), the library was also good for the two or three books with a few good paragraphs in. My advice is grab a copy of data tables and a really good reference book and go from there.

Also a.b.e-book and the like, even found a bunch of obscure engineering stuff on there. For technical/non fiction (read work based stuff) stuff I find ebooks a better route too.

 

[UltraMagnus]

I wouldn't pirate books 'cause I can't stand sitting in front of a laptop reading for hours. It causes too much stress on my eyes. I rather read the actual thing.

1) I always thought the idea of textbooks was to look things up in, not to read from front to back like a novel.
2) toner is cheap

3) you seem to spend hours reading GBAtemp just fine

 

[Anakir]

lol yeah its true I do spend quite a bit of time on gbatemp, but I just leave the computer on with the tabs opened usually. So quite a bit of the time, I'm actually not in front of the computer.

Plus I study off text books too (Yes, I actually read from front to back. The ENTIRE textbook if needed).. I make notes out of it. I just don't like spending too much time on the computer.

 

[xalphax]

the other day i went to our library someone left the copier with a whopping 90 copies left.

i waited for 1/2 hour then i started to copy ALL the stuff i needed.