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elcapitan:
Does anyone else hate these damn things?

Beginning of every semester, I find myself back at the Co-op, handing over thick wads of cash in return for a bunch of badly-bound, badly-written books that I probably won't open more than about five times in the semester. I have no alternative - as a computer science student, there's generally no choice of assignments, and hence all the textbooks in the library vanish just when you need them for something due the next day.

After three semesters, here's my collection:

FruitKat:
*agrees whole-heartidly*
I have to spend $450 this semester alone on books, I tried to find second hand ones, I went early, but there were none...
One of the books its absolutely tiny and its $70....
This just drives me crazy.
One of my classes we had to buy 7 books.... SEVEN.
I find English is worst with this, they want you to buy so many books, only to study one chapter or something and then move onto the next one...
Argh... As if being a student isn't hard enough, what with student loans and all that crap.
Almost makes me wanna go back to school where you borrow the books at the beginning of the year and return them when you're done, at no cost... ALMOST.
Also, Have you thought about reselling them? I'm going to do that with mine, I hope they want them...

normz:
aggggh I know .... and being a law student/public policy student i think they just assume you have $500 to blow on text books each semester seriously i would be able to fill 3/4 of your bookshelf and ive only done 1 semester so far *sigh* i wanna know how they justify the crazy insanely over-inflated prices .... it's like what the hell $60 for this tiny piece of shit and i blame textbooks for my worsening eyesight and possible future backpains *shakes fist*

elcapitan:

--- Quote from: StarlightRecycler ---Also, Have you thought about reselling them? I'm going to do that with mine, I hope they want them...
--- End quote ---


They've wised up to that. Pretty much every year or two they'll bring out "new" editions of most of my books, where they've shuffled a paragraph or two and put on a fancy new cover. As a result, no-one wants the old edition.

normz:
Same prob here ..... also they change the curriculm so much that its not often you have the same books as last year or even last semester. Plus I guess it's the nature of my degree (being law and public policy) to need cutting edge information because laws are enacted and repealed at such a rate that you need a new version every year ..... same sort of thing with alot of other rapidly growing and changing industries (like IT) i guess maybe it wouldnt be as bad for other degrees as alot of my mates can do the whole buy second hand book thing and get on just fine

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