Books

[APKingBlue19]

How much did your books cost?

Mine cost me over $500

 

[DailyBlessings]

Oy...


My books cost $420 this semester- I only make 300 or so a month, so it's a pretty big bite.

 

[ZACTAK]

$533. It is funny my dad complains about it, and yet he works for a medical textbook publishing company

 

[HolyFire X]

This was a really good semester for me money-wise.

$320. Only needed four books.

 

[PuppyforChrist]

Gee, my books were only about $300. But I guess it was because most of them were used.

 

[DailyBlessings]

Ah, used books....

They get harder to find, the more advanced in your field you get.

 

[okiemommy26]

Mine mostly were used but I still spent about 600 dollars for mine. I still need a few more I can not get at my school store.

 

[~BelovedDaughter~]

I think mine ended up costing somewhere around $300...I'll have to double check. Thank goodness for deferred payment plans!

 

[Boss_BlueAngels]

I've been extremely lucky never having to pay more than $300 on books for the three years I've been in college. They're such a rip-off... well, some of them anyways. Every book I buy for my flight classes I keep for myself later on. Those are never more than $50 though.

Spring quarter last year I finally got smart and didn't buy a single book. Oddly, I did better last quarter than I ever have! haha. So now I learned, do not buy the books untill at least the first week of school is through, by then you'll know if the teacher even uses it.

So, wanna chance it??? haha

 

[Manda_24]

Mine cost a little over $350 this time but I'm not going to complain too much, it was a whole lot worse the last two semesters. But the prices, even on used books, are ridiculous.

 

[fishstix]

First year was about $1000, and steadily decreased after that because as my classes became more specialized either the textbooks were so expensive that the profs didn't require them or there just weren't any textbooks on the topic.

 

[MetalBlade]

Mine were like 200 this semester, which isn't bad. I have had 300-400 semesters though.

 

[Lil Miss]

I got lucky this semester. I am taking three english classes, which in turn means buying about 25 books in total...BUT most of them are small paperbacks that go for about 7 bucks a piece. I thought it was going to be a lot worse. But all in all, those books combined with a few others only come to just over 300 bucks

 

[Matt.9:22]

I did really good this semester. I only need books in 2 of 5 classes. All the teachers say buy them but I've had some of these teachers before and know that they don't use the books. My books cost me $106. Both were brand new or it would have been cheaper. I was supposed to buy a TI caculator for my math class but I refuse on the grounds that it's the only math class I have to take for graduation and therefore does not warrant a $106 caculator. The higher I get into my courses the cheaper my books seem to be. Maybe that's just so far. *shrugs*

 

[Hookem_Horns]

One of my books was like $160 I think.

 

[Shannonkish]

My first semester, the semester I had the least amount of hours/classes (14 hours- 4 classes), I spent over $500.00.

After that, I wised up and purchased my books at half.com and ebay.com and spent less that $200.00 every semester. Fall of 2004, I had 19 hours- 7 classes, I spent $170.00 on books.

www.bestbookbuys.com

 

[DailyBlessings]

Fall of 2004, I had 19 hours- 7 classes,

Wow...

 

[Shannonkish]

I had 2 semesters like that. I normally took around 18 hours.

 

[SOLDOUT4HIM]

Amen, HisPureGirl. If it wasn't for deferrments i don't know what i'd do.

 

[SOLDOUT4HIM]

my organic book alone was like 200 (but i get to reuse it). i'm not sure how much they were total, b/c my student loans basically took care of them.