I was lucky I guess. I have always found used/cheaper books. Lisa P
Posted by: Carrie
Date posted: Fri May 2 17:37:03 2008
Message:
My daughter took Community College classes online and had to buy some very expensive books each semester. She finally got good at tracking them down used (online) as long as she could get (or use) the edition required.
They seem to update them so often you sometimes need one year, and all the used ones are a little older.
It's crazy. Someone is making a lot of money on books, that students have to have for the classes.
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Mine seem to be updated a lot! Lisa P
Posted by: Paulsmom
Date posted: Fri May 2 17:25:19 2008
Message:
Ha, I work for a library. $115? A drop in the BUCKET!!!
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Okay, well I just got my book. So, I am not as shocked now. Lisa P
Posted by: Evil Charity
Date posted: Fri May 2 11:42:11 2008
Message:
I've paid over double that for a book. The thing that kills me most is you can pay that much for a book and it will be this flimsy, spiral bound piece of junk that falls apart. The least they could do is hard bind the things!
I also never sold my books back but for one time. It's not worth waiting in line for, IMO (but, I worked all through school and never lived the starving student lifestyle :))
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I can't imagine. I hope it was a good book. Lisa P
Posted by: ML
Date posted: Fri May 2 11:30:16 2008
Message:
The Daughter had to buy an anatomy book last year for $275...
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Boy, that is almost my car payment. Lisa P
Posted by: Kri
Date posted: Fri May 2 11:10:07 2008
Message:
Yeah, that was pretty much the average when I went to grad school. I held onto a bunch of my books because it made no sense to sell them back for pennies. I never looked at any of them again, so I sent them off to Half Price Books a few years ago.
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Most of my main Psychology books, or death & dying books I do look at from time to time, but this particular book will be sold or donated when I am done with it. Lisa P
Posted by: kitty
Date posted: Fri May 2 10:52:06 2008
Message:
Yikes. 
There is no way I could ever go back to school. Too much moola for me. That is crazy.
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School is not cheap. It's so worth it, but the amount of money it costs to go is a joke. Lisa P
Posted by: Sparky
Date posted: Fri May 2 10:31:32 2008
Message:
That's about what I paid for many of my text books when I was working on my doctorate. Yup.
The redhead buys a lot of her text books through the internet. There is something like craigslist, but for used text books.
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I could see if I was working on my doctorate, but a Masters. The books really add up fast. Lisa P
Posted by: Nicki
Date posted: Fri May 2 10:05:56 2008
Message:
Yikes, that is alot..I'd be griping too! ..I remember having to buy books for school, but nothing close to that expensive.
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Yeah, most of mine are about half of that price. Lisa P
Posted by: Kat
Date posted: Fri May 2 9:51:13 2008
Message:
I don't blame you for being upset about that!! My Lord!!! Does it have gold pages??? GEESH!
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No, but it has a fancy looking cover ;-) Lisa P
Posted by: Jennifer
Date posted: Fri May 2 8:23:25 2008
Message:
Yes. I often paid that much for books that were required for the class and then seldom, if ever, used. It's ridiculous.
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That is depressing! Lisa P
Posted by: Ginger G
Date posted: Fri May 2 8:20:35 2008
Message:
Actually when I was getting my master's degree most of my books were in the $100 + range. It's completely ridiculous.
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It just bugs me, because this book I won't keep and when I sell it I will be lucky to get a few bucks. Lisa P
Posted by: Cettie
Date posted: Fri May 2 7:59:42 2008
Message:
My books used to cost me a mint too. Some of the most expensive books were the ones the professor wrote so of course we had to have those for the course. My husband was a science major and his major's books were more expensive than mine, and he went to a hoity-toity school so each book was around $300.
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I would not mind so bad if I was going to keep this book, but it's a book I do not want to keep. Lisa P
Posted by: Tukey
Date posted: Fri May 2 7:32:39 2008
Message:
That's no big surprise to me lol....when I was in classes a couple years ago, the most expensive book I bought was $170 Cdn! Each semester my books would come to around $500....the most expensive semester I had for books was close to $700! It's crazy that they're priced so high because you HAVE to have them...grrr....I better stop lol...I used to get so frustrated about it! :o)
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I guess I have been pretty lucky. Most of my books have always been pretty reasonable. Lisa P
Posted by: Bonk5
Date posted: Fri May 2 2:23:28 2008
Message:
Hubby just spend something like that last fall for 2 books he needed for his classes. I think one was new and over $100.00 and the other used but till around 80.00! Can you believe that? I hope he can return them!
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I was just shocked. My hubby's computer books just 2 years ago were only around $40-$60.00. Lisa P
Posted by: Jenny
Date posted: Fri May 2 1:55:40 2008
Message:
My geography book, last class I ever took for credit, was $99. It was new. It wasn't going to be used the next semester, so it wasn't being bought. Can you imagine? It wasn't just geography, it was social economical political BS, with a lot of pretty maps and graphs. The publisher puts out new ones every semester or year, in small quantities because the "world changes so fast." Bah humbug. I kept it. I knew I wouldn't get $5 from Half Price. There is a textbook seller online, I believe, as well as half.com. It's just unbelievable how much texts cost.
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Half Price in Redmond is where we took our bags of books. We both laughed at what we got for them. Lisa P
I know! It's a great place to buy, but they want pure profit. I once took a box of books and mags and they offered me 87 cents or something as ridiculous. I opted to give them to Goodwill. eom/Jenny
LOL!!!! 87 cents :-)) I hope you didn't go too far with that. Lisa P
