I can't believe I just paid $310 for 2 lousy books

[DS1]

Fucking College course book vultures.

They'll be the first in line :nuke:

[MemphisTiger]

1. Try to find them online used

that save me tons of money in grad school

[radwriter0555]

2. Yep you can buy stuff used on amazon for 1/10th the price, unless the

flipping professer WRITES his own flipping book that isn't available ANYWHERE ELSE.

[matcom]

3. don' t worry. when your done you can sell them back

for about $10 a piece :nuke:

[DS1]

6. Fat chance, by the time I'd be ready to do that (4 weeks)

there'll be a new edition with crucial enhancements like highlighted words.

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. What sucks is buying books for my daughter's high school classes.

That's about $450. That's what sucks. And then they change the books they use by the minute so you can't trade them in on the next year's books. :nuke: :hi:

[DS1]

8. Wow, I only had to pay for the HS books that were lost/stolen

Typically stolen, by the rich kids.

[babylonsister]

9. You have to pay for h.s. books? I never heard

of such a thing. Thank Gawd that wasn't the case when I was growing up; my folks had 5 kids-we'd have all been illiterate!

[devinsgram]

5. All I can say is two words- Amazon and Ebay.

Someone from the Financial Aide office at the school I am attending told me to go to these sites to get my books instead of the college bookstore. She said they were way to expensive there and she couldn't afford them either when she went to school. Just got a 100.00 book on Ebay for 20.00, and it is just like new.

And when you are finished and you no longer want them, put them back on for someone else. Just make sure they are in good shape if you do not want to keep them.

[DS1]

7. Don't have the time

I need them today, and they didn't release list until yesterday.

[Omphaloskepsis]

10. My school library has all of them to check-out..

About 20 feet from the photocopy machines.

[izzie]

11. Art books were always very high but never in the $100

In the cost of living stuff have they gone up even higher? I have a lot of trouble with all that. If you are working more hours to buy that book than your dad did than you are going back wards.It is usually bread and shoes that is used as the base to see if you are going forward or backward. Cars are a real problem. Used to take 5 years to drive a car 100,000 miles and it was then junk even if it had cost you a forth of your yearly income. Now you can drive the thing over 200,000 and it still cost you a forth of your yearly income but it also is now used up in 2 years. You figure it out.