Chade on 11/5/2010 at 23:27
I saved some of my textbooks from later courses, but chucked out all the introductory stuff. The later textbooks are generally much smaller, anyway.
Fafhrd on 11/5/2010 at 23:33
Saved my big C++ textbook and my astronomy lab book and a couple of my English textbooks. I really wish I'd saved my Astronomy lecture text book, but I sold it back after that semester ended.
gunsmoke on 12/5/2010 at 00:19
Quote Posted by Fafhrd
Saved my big C++ textbook.
HA, same here! I still occasionally use my English texts for reference, and love picking up my math/algebra/geometry/calculus/trig books for periodic refreshenings (tm).
Enchantermon on 12/5/2010 at 01:23
Quote Posted by gunsmoke
Did you guys save your text books? I did and people think I am weird.
Every last one of them. Except for my most recent English one, because for some reason, even though textbook costs are included in tuition, someone thought it would be a great idea for us to just borrow the book from the school library and return it at the end of the term, rather than us all getting our own copies. :mad:
37637598 on 12/5/2010 at 01:37
Shenanigans University.
Enchantermon on 12/5/2010 at 01:48
To say the least. I went into the new bookstore (note: bookstore) the other day to pick up my cap and gown, and found out that they're doing something similar with some of the technical courses, too. "Here's a new book...but you have to bring it back after the term is over." My IIS course used an e-book available through the campus' online library. I prefer paper books, but whatever, right? Except, oh wait, we can't access the book after we no longer attend school there. :mad: Had to go buy the darn thing off of Amazon myself.
Nameless Voice on 12/5/2010 at 07:07
Wait, what? You buy the book and then they want it back?
Even more reason to skip buying it from the university and getting it yourself on Amazon. It's usually cheaper that way, too.
june gloom on 12/5/2010 at 17:09
BVR pays for my books. I haven't spent a cent on them in years.
I occasionally sell them back for quick cash, though. I may have to do that because of some money issues we've run into thanks to dad and a spectacular bureaucratic fuckup.
Rug Burn Junky on 12/5/2010 at 17:31
Any book I could get more than $20 for I sold back when I was in law school, but the rest I kept. Will I ever read them again? Nope, but law books look spectacular.
(My outlines - all done in micro-sized handwriting on steno-pads - are still within easy reach of my desk in my home office. In the past two years I've referred to my banking law outline many times).
Thief13x on 13/5/2010 at 02:00
heh, I threw my Aviation Law book as far as I could when I walked out of the final;) That stuff was brutal
