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Jan 31, 2006 12:55

I finally got all my books needed for this semester.

27 books for a grand total of... $325.

I don't really know how that rates on the book scale. How'd everyone else make out?

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yelenavb January 31 2006, 21:11:20 UTC

27 books????????

cathy006 January 31 2006, 22:35:55 UTC

That's absolutely incredible. How many were hardcover textbooks?

as_a_vagabond February 1 2006, 00:31:22 UTC

Here's my take on the situation. Based on what she tells us, we get the following equation:

$325/27 = approx. $12/book

If she had bought even one hardcover text book (which averages, last time I checked, somewhere around $80), it becomes:

$245/26 = approx. $9.50/book

Unless she's buying every other book used, chances are she's not spending an average of less than $10 a book.

My money's on lots of little paperbacks that her professors will probably make her read, like, two sentences out of before saying, "Now, moving on..."

colluctatio February 1 2006, 00:32:45 UTC

BINGO.

Though they're all really good, so I don't want to return them, haha.

as_a_vagabond February 1 2006, 00:47:33 UTC

Yeah, that was the game I always played. Which, I suppose, is why I ended up with over 200lbs. of text books about which I could barely remember the subject matter.

Have fun! :-P

deesweetee February 1 2006, 00:16:07 UTC

from these reactions, i'd say you fared pretty well. and from what i have heard about the horrors of textbooks...well, 27 for under $400. i'd say you did excellent! (then again, i am still in high school...haha)

ikenator February 1 2006, 21:00:40 UTC

I know a guy who dropped some 200+ dollars on a book that he had an old edition of because he planned on taking the class last semester, but couldnt... or something like that. I know of a few people who have spent over $500 on books this semester alone. I, myself, am spending a grand total of $0 this semester, having, shrewdly not registered for many new classes, and I am going to share books for my new class with my roommate and the several other people in my hall who are taking/have taken the class. I hate spending money on books I am not even going to read.

books dotcom__05 February 1 2006, 23:15:33 UTC

Fall term I spent $400 on three classes. My math was like $70, my writing was $35 and the rest was my Anatomy & Physiology text for a three term sequence that I only took one term of. That was $300 down the crapper. This term I was lucky and only spent $250 for three classes. I wish I didn't have new classes every term so I could use the same books.