Books & School Options

[sixfive]

Do you sell your books back? Do you keep the ones for your major as reference material? Do you sell back to the campus book store / amazon / craigslist / other method?

Traditionally I've gone to the book store (I'm lazy) and taken the highest offers. Sometimes they'll offer like $10 for a $150 book and I tend to keep those because I'd just feel guilty for giving up something like that at a fraction of the price. Still probably will never read it again :(

[libertie]

What sucks about my major is that like.. for theory, piano, and sightsinging, each class uses the same book for four semesters. For me, in every single class, by the time I was done with my fourth semester the book had a new edition so not only could I not sell it back to the bookstore, I couldn't sell it to an underclassman because the teachers would only let the old editions slide for the people who already had the book, not for new students. Ugh. No way to get money back there, so I might as well keep it.

And I've been finished with gen eds for two years now, so I haven't had any luck with buybacks since then.