I just bought a bunch of text books. Wow, the books end up costing MORE than my classes. I know this is not news to anyone, but there is something wrong with that equation.
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Noodleface
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Yeah, just spent $600 on 3 textbooks, it's great! Last semester though, I won't miss that.
Noodleface
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I usually get them on Amazon for like 80% off the bookstore, but I was on my honeymoon and needed the books ASAP when i got back.
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I had a professor who wrote a text book for his own class and would come out with a new edition every year so you had to buy new.
I honesty wonder how much material was new/more accurate with each new release. I'd imagine not much.
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Noodleface
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I was in a graduate numerical analysis class and the teacher said we had to buy this book on linear algebra or we'd fail (5 students mind you). I saw the book was written by him and decided not to buy it, and actually no one did. He was forced to photocopy relevant information which occurred roughly 3 times in the entire semester. $200 my ass buddy. He retired that year too.
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I took graduate level Stem Cell Biology class the first year it was offered. Our book was different peer reviewed articles printed and bound by our book store.
I didn't buy it since you know being a student I could access article databases and print them for free.
Also on editions, there is really no change between them other than grammatical corrections or diagram/picture updates. It is a scam. Just like every textbook coming with digital material that is useless and never used but drives up the price.
I didn't buy it since you know being a student I could access article databases and print them for free.
Also on editions, there is really no change between them other than grammatical corrections or diagram/picture updates. It is a scam. Just like every textbook coming with digital material that is useless and never used but drives up the price.
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I was going to say, my experience in sciences/math type classes was that they changed all the problems/exercises, so if you wanted to get the 5-10% of your mark that was from handing in assignments you either needed the latest textbook yourself, or you had to borrow someone else's.
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