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Catculus:
I like textbooks. I keep all my math textbooks and some other ones. I sell back most of the stupid ones--unless they're not taking them, of course. I intend to keep all of the ones I am using this summer; one because it's math and the others because I feel they might be useful to me at some point. I know I am going to have to spend a lot of money on textbooks in the fall because none of my classes are continuations of other classes--the last two semesters I've not had to purchase many books because the classes were continuations.

clasicks:
yay for still being in high school, this (senior) year is going to be so much fun.

JP:
I've kept my history books, since I was (well, still am for a few more weeks) a history major and most of them are pretty interesting anyway. But for classes I took as GenEds or other electives and decided I didn't want the books, I found the best way to get your money back was to wait until the same course is offered again - might be the next semester, or the semester after the next. But in either case, I used to just find what building and room the class would be in and go tape a piece of paper to the door listing the books required for the course and the books I want to sell, along with the price at the bookstore and my price. This never failed to sell a book, and I even sold a calculus book that was three editions older than the current one for the class, because math text books don't change that much and I was selling it for under the price you could get it anywhere else.

You won't get all your money back, but you'll get way, way more than selling it back to the store or going through some student-run book exchange program.

FruitKat:
That is really good advice JP... I might just do that, though it seems like a whole lot of effort...Heh.
Also, I'm taking history aswell and I find it hard to part with those books, I think I'll keep them and a few of my English ones I wouldn't mind keeping. Though my history book for this semester was the most expensive one and it's TINY.

And thanks Abattur... Nothing better than doing the Brent Dance...Woo!

deborah:
i'm one of those who keeps textbooks after the class is done, but that's because i'm an english major.  the only thing i find excessively annoying about the english textbooks is when you're taking classes from warring professors, and they each have their favorite different canonical anthology.  i am now the proud owner of an assortment of longmans, nortons, riverside, and heath, not to mention two different translations of augustine's confessions, three different printings of paradise lost, and couple of candides.

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