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289438 No.7356  
Buying TEXTBOOKS SUCK WHHY
WHY DO YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR BOOKS THAT YOU ONLY READ A COUPLE PAGES FROM SOMETIMES YOU DON'T EVEN USE THEM AND WHY CANT i BACKSPACE AFTER I ENTER ANYWAYS FOR CLASSES THAT DON'T NEED BOOKS THIS IS JUST A WAY TO GET MORE MONEY OR SOMETHIN MAN ALL THE BOOKS ARE SOLD OUT BEFORE SCHOOL EVEN STARTS AND EVEN ON SITES ONLINE THEY'RE EITHER BACKORDERED OR ARRIVE LIKE 5 YEARS AFTER BUYING THEM. I'M TELLIN YOU THAT THERE ARE A BUNCH OF CLASSES THAT COULD AFFORD TO PUT UP SOME PAGES ONLINE FOR US TO READ INSTEAD OF HAVING TO SHELL OUT $150+ JUST TO READ A SENTENCE.
>> No.7358  
lmaozers
I never order textbooks until the prof. says it's required. [spoiler]sometimes I buy the old edition if we're not pulling h/w problems from the text[/spoiler]
desu it drives me up the wall when we pull h/w questions from the text because then my cheap ass can't get away with reading from the 5th edition instead of the 6th.
digital scans are a blessing. professors who assign textbooks which are free online are a godsend.
>>7360
>TOTALLY DIFFERENT SECTIONS
this shit is bonkers too
>> No.7359  
ALL OF THEM SAID TO BUY A TEXTBOOK FML ITS BETTER THAN DIGITAL THEY SAID YADA YADA whatever I'll shut up.
>> No.7360  
>>7359 thats one thing too the textbook manufacturers decided that one edition wasn't enough and had to add a new edition every blue moon with TOTALLY DIFFERENT SECTIONS FROM THE LAST SO YOU HAVE TO BUY IT NEVERTHELESS. Its a
scam D:
>> No.7361  
how do you even backspace on this place too what the heck I don't understand
>> No.7362  
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>>7361
>> No.7363  
>>7362 is this how you comment
>> No.7386  
hahahahahhaha lmao how are textbook prices even a problem just download them like go to libgen.io lmao

I can't believe you basedboys are actually paying for textbooks
i shiggy diggy
>> No.7391  
>>7386 who says "shiggy diggy" anyways
>> No.7395  
My Stats textbook would've cost $150 if I bought it off amazon but I got it for free from libgen
>> No.7396  
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>>7395 NANI
>> No.7398  
books are cheap if you pirate them
I can only justify it because textbook companies are pretty much milking stores for money anyway
>Textbook company produces a book
>Sell to bookstore for $50
>Bookstore marks up to $80
>Sells for $30 profit
The real trick is:
>when the bookstore buys your book back for $10
>Sell for $80
>70$ profit
This is why textbook companies produce 8 or 9 versions of a textbook; the company only makes margin on the first sale; the bookstore really profits from the 2nd, 3rd, 4th sale and so on
So just keep changing the chapters / problems such that you need to make that first sale again and again; if you don't have the current version you'll be behind
>> No.7404  
>That glorious feel of being in lit classes
Textbooks are all novels you can buy off Abebooks for $4. Or just rent them from the library for the whole semester.
>> No.7408  
>>7358 i rent textbooks as often as i can
>> No.7417  
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Use the library; scan a book in the book scanner, read it later on your phone/laptop/tablet at your own pace.


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