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 :(

[Joanne]

I've only ever sold my textbooks through the FB groups people have made for books used in my school. That's how I buy most of my books too, unless it's a new edition (HATE THIS!!!). In that case, I get them from the bookstore.

[Gigi]

I don't generally try to keep any textbooks. I try to sell my books back to other students, but sometimes I get lazy and they kind of sit to rot. I've a couple of custom edition textbooks that have been completely changed over the year so I don't even bother trying to sell it.

Oh actually, the one book that I'm planning to keep for the long-term is my astronomy textbook. I give it credit for starting my massive obsession with astronomy that will likely continue for the rest of my life.



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[DoubleJ]

I do online school so no.

[brooklyneast05]

the prices f*cking suck. i only got like 30 dollars total.

i was really pissed because i asked them how much my world lit books were gonna get and the bitch was like 30, 40, 20 (there were 3 volumes). so i'm f*ck yes i'm going to be rich in a few days. i was gonna use it to go buy books i actually wanna read at barnes and noble. i even picked out what books i wanted to buy. then i go to the bookstore after the final with my old books, ready to get paid, and i only got 20 dollars total for them instead of 90 because they were used already and that bitch and given me prices for new ones.

[batman]

i sell on amazon. i sold my chem and stats textbook and got like $75 each, which is pretty good considering i bought them both used for about the same amount.

[Joanne]

When I sell my books to students, I always charge at least 75% of the school bookstore's used price. It sucks if I bought the book new ($150ish) and have to sell it for way cheaper ($80ish), but it's awesome when I bought them used from someone who charged less ($50) and sold them for a tiny bit more ($60)... which is quite often.

[synapse]

I sell them back by whatever means possible, first I'll try the bookstore, if they don't give me back at least half of what I paid, I'll list them on amazon (which usually sells pretty well). I've only kept a couple of books because they'd only sell for pennies, or nothing, if their custom for the semester. I was able to sell all of my books on amazon this semester. Originally bought them all for like 200, got back 125.

[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.

[tokyo-rose]

I rent my textbooks from Chegg. It's about the same as buying from sites like Amazon and Half.com, sometimes cheaper, and I don't have to worry about keeping textbooks I don't want because I can ship them all back for free.

I was going to recommend Chegg to a friend who lives in Alberta because she was complaining about having to buy expensive textbooks, but I checked and they don't ship outside the US. I'm sure Canada has a similar textbook rental service, though.

[AyeVickaye]

Im still taking GE..I tried to sell my books but the fcukin bookstore ppl wouldn't buy it cuz they're lookin for da latest editions...I paid $100 for my mint cond. math book "/ I thought i was gonna get at least $40-50 for that book..ugghs i'll jst use it as a weigh

[tokyo-rose]

I do online school so no.

Do you have to pay for books at all, or is everything provided online after you pay the online school fees?

[Matsumoto]

I don't generally try to keep any textbooks. I try to sell my books back to other students, but sometimes I get lazy and they kind of sit to rot. I've a couple of custom edition textbooks that have been completely changed over the year so I don't even bother trying to sell it.

Oh actually, the one book that I'm planning to keep for the long-term is my astronomy textbook. I give it credit for starting my massive obsession with astronomy that will likely continue for the rest of my life.



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I used this book for my astronomy class too. I loved that class!

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I keep mine since no one wants any math ones lol