f**king books Options

[brooklyneast05]

there's probably 191223423353 topics of people bitching about this...

but i f**king get pissed off buying books. i just bought my italian book and it's like 300 pages total and a little paper work book and it cost f**king 196 dollars. WHAT THE HELL. THIS IS BULLSHIT. i have no clue why this book should cost as much as it does. it's not even a big hard cover book.

f**k this. so uh, have you bought your books? were you surprised by any of the prices? did your smallest most useless class end up costing you more than your actual major classes?

chick in line in front of me, her total cost was like 800+ dollars. i felt worse for her.

[Tung]

I usually save alot of money on textbooks by using my resources. We have interlibrary loans and it links to all of the colleges in California, so I can check it out that way. I also always check if my public library have the book I need, so I don't have to buy it. Another thing I do is, I'll buy the book, and make photo copies of the pages, well my sister does it for me, cuz she works at a copy place. After I make the copies, I return the book. Of course this doesn't work with sealed wrapper books, but those books I usually borrow at the library anyways.

Most of my friends spend about $300-$400 a quarter on books, while I'll sometimes spend $0 or under $50. lol.

Also my college library also has the book on 2 hour reserves, so I don't mine going to the library and checking it out and studying for 2 hours and then returning it. It's better than paying $200 for a book just to have comfort of studying it at home.