I just found out my school RENTS textbooks.

[studytime45]

Why oh why would anyone buy them?! I'm just figuring this out for the first time.

Textbook 1 - Buy: $144.50 Rent (semester): $55

Textbook 2 - Buy: $133.95 Rent (semester): $50

etc...

This is even cheaper than buying them and selling them back to the school. Woot! :Y:

[speckledfrog]

My college did the same thing. Book rental was $100 a semester when I started. Woo!

[onomatopoeia]

I just did this yesterday through Chegg. A $195 text book cost me $70 with shipping. I can even read it on-line while I wait for it to be shipped to me (which is supposed to take 2 days...we'll see). Takes a bit of the pain out of paying for books I'll never read again!

[hubes]

My school did that too- the books were included in the cost of tuition.

[MWOS]

LOL @ people who read the book!

[papie]

I never sold textbooks because I write so much in them while studying. I wouldn't have been able to rent them. And now that I teach, I also need my own copy because I have notes all over my textbooks.

[papie]

Sept 5, 2012 9:41:15 GMT -5 MWOS said:

LOL @ people who read the book!

:-( :-( :-(

They read it, right? Please tell me they do. Or maybe that would explain some test results. READ THE DAMN BOOK PEOPLE!

[mrssavy42112]

Chegg.com is a great place to rent textbooks too. They may be cheaper than your school & returning it was super easy. If I was able to find the book on eBay/Amazon for about the same price, I usually just bought it. That way I can resell it & recoup some of the cost. But if not, then I just rented it.

[MWOS]

Sept 5, 2012 9:43:57 GMT -5 papie said:

Sept 5, 2012 9:41:15 GMT -5 MWOS said:

LOL @ people who read the book!

They read it, right? Please tell me they do. Or maybe that would explain some test results. READ THE DAMN BOOK PEOPLE!

lolol, I haven't bought/read a textbook since 2005

[hubes]

Our motto was to never go get your books until you had your first assignment from them. By then you knew who used the book and who didn't.

[studytime45]

Sept 5, 2012 9:47:44 GMT -5 MWOS said:

Sept 5, 2012 9:43:57 GMT -5 papie said:

They read it, right? Please tell me they do. Or maybe that would explain some test results. READ THE DAMN BOOK PEOPLE!

lolol, I haven't bought/read a textbook since 2005

For one of my classes, the prof that teaches it actually wrote a book for the course. The whole thing is required reading and he tests from each chapter. Siiiigh

[MWOS]

Yes, my professors have sometimes written the book. I remain unswayed by this argument.

[papie]

You are all crushing me.

[smock]

At most universities, professors aren't legally allowed to profit off of assigning books they wrote. You can still assign them, but you have to turn over all the profits or donate them or something. (I don't know, because I haven't written any textbooks.)

[papie]

Sept 5, 2012 10:04:59 GMT -5 smock said:

At most universities, professors aren't legally allowed to profit off of assigning books they wrote. You can still assign them, but you have to turn over all the profits or donate them or something. (I don't know, because I haven't written any textbooks.)

Maybe that's an american thing, because I never heard about it. But I also have never written any textbooks.

One of my colleagues had his powerpoints printed, binded and sells them to the students as a textbook. I'm pretty sure he does it for profits. Jerk.

[MWOS]

Pssst, Papie...
I took that class last semester and I will sell you my copy of the notes for 80% of what he sells them for new. Meet me in the alley after class.

I've been playing this game for way too long people

[amberlyrose]

I wish this was around when I was a freshman-junior. I kept a few books senior year because they were actually interesting. The first three years I wasted so much money on books I never even cracked open :/

Graduate school books I plan on keeping forevah. They are great for looking back on in other classes and I assume in future jobs.