College people- Rent books instead of buying them.

[Darus Grey]

Don't rent books! Torrent them!

[_chuchu]

^ I'd like to see more textbooks e-book'd and shit.

[Khamsin]

Just buy the outdated version of the textbook for cheap. It's only got a couple new pictures and a caption.

[Skjie]

Too bad more and more books are going to online code format and profs are using that for graded material.

[Slapper]

Ecce Romani

[Stee]

I just spend a hour sifting through google for free pdf, doc or torrent files of my books. Works for a lot of my books, the ones I don't find I just get a used copy.

Saved myself 400 dollars this semester alone.

[Khamsin]

Ecce Romani

Gaius Cornelius up to his old tricks again?

[Gregorio]

As people have said before...buy used, sell back when you're done. There's the 2/3rds that you're saving through renting the book. Or buy used and keep it if it's a subject you think you'll be continually be interested in. I saved a lot of my text books actually because I enjoyed my major.

[Slapper]

Gaius Cornelius up to his old tricks again?

Sextus molestus es

[Kaisha]

Just buy the outdated version of the textbook for cheap. It's only got a couple new pictures and a caption.

Really annoying when said pictures and caption typically offset every page number compared to the newest one your professor always bloody dictates from. Last time I bought an English based book new (fucking $80 for something we only used 30 pages out of).

Unfortunately for me, the other $500 in books I spent (excluding the $700 some on my own personal spendings) I need to keep for reference material for as long as I want my career path, yay for drawing related courses. >.>

[EDIT] And upon checking the site, everything that was 'required' by my classes are either almost the same price I paid new for them, or are listed 'out of stock'. (which doesn't surprise me on some given a couple of my books have been out of print for years). Guess they expect animation students to fend for themselves.

[Minions]

Personally after this past semester, any classes I take online will use online books. The ability to search for terms etc, makes life so much easier.

[Darus Grey]

Least many of you can buy books.

Remember there's certain majors where there isn't wide-release style textbooks, so any books are written/made by the profs, and there's no 2nd hand market for them(or least book store doesn't buy them back).

Those guys get raaaaaapppppppppeeeeeddd.

If I ever have to write the textbook for my own course, I'm making it PDF only and giving it away, seriously fuck this shit. I don't need an extra 6~ grand a semester bad enough to do that to people.

[Nirokun!]

www3.addall.com

saved me so much money, wish someone showed me sooner ; ;

the worst fucking deal is a required, university-specific abridged book. you have to buy it at full price, you have to sell it back for 30% (if you're lucky) of what you paid because no other campus will use it. i wrote an email to my professor about that book, he had no idea

but seriously, addall. there's another site that does it like addall, but I don't remember what it was.

[Mansin]

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[Vandole]

my books came in today. i got all new ones, which is badass. they even came with online codes O.o