http://trinitysga.com/cms/lillie-lavado/facts-aside-textbooks-are-too-expensive/2008/01/ Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:44:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://trinitysga.com/cms/lillie-lavado/facts-aside-textbooks-are-too-expensive/2008/01/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Andrea Wise Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:06:39 +0000 http://trinitysga.com/cms/lillie-lavado/facts-aside-textbooks-are-too-expensive/2008/01/23/#comment-20 Textbooks are ridiculously expensive, but unless you need the latest edition that was published in '08 (damn, you Biology) you can find the same book for considerably cheaper on Amazon. I'm sure that there are even cheaper places to get books, but I know that, for example, one of my philosophy books was $20 at the bookstore (not bad already but wait...) and I got it for $0.34 on Amazon. Yeah, 34 cents. I wouldn't mind paying hundreds of dollars for books if the bookstore would buy them back for more. I tried selling back about five books last week and the most they offered me was $1.50 for each. I don't know how to solve the problem, though. Why can't college just have class sets of books that they check out at the beginning of the semester--the way they do it in High School. Then you don't have to pay for your books unless you loose them. Textbooks are ridiculously expensive, but unless you need the latest edition that was published in ’08 (damn, you Biology) you can find the same book for considerably cheaper on Amazon. I’m sure that there are even cheaper places to get books, but I know that, for example, one of my philosophy books was $20 at the bookstore (not bad already but wait…) and I got it for $0.34 on Amazon. Yeah, 34 cents. I wouldn’t mind paying hundreds of dollars for books if the bookstore would buy them back for more. I tried selling back about five books last week and the most they offered me was $1.50 for each. I don’t know how to solve the problem, though. Why can’t college just have class sets of books that they check out at the beginning of the semester–the way they do it in High School. Then you don’t have to pay for your books unless you loose them.

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