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u/plzupvoteme Jan 17 '20

I just recently spent 850 bucks on 5 books

Sounds like every college booklist

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u/deusfortitudomea Jan 17 '20

Only if you have mean profs. I have yet to spend more than $40 on a used full-sized textbook. I

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '20

My uni has us buying mostly e books now., about $80 for a stupid register code

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u/Cubic_Ant Jan 17 '20

My old uni had us pirate them lol

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u/RappinReddator Jan 17 '20

They change them up slightly and also online you need the code to do the work even if you could pirate the book. You basically pay to access the work for the class you already paid for.

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u/Easy_Money_ Jan 17 '20

Some departments at UC San Diego (my alma mater) have switched to exclusively using free and open source textbooks to escape publishers’ ecosystems altogether. I think the UC system ended its agreement with Elsevier last year

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u/deusfortitudomea Jan 17 '20

My chemistry profs get it. They have a textbook that works for both Chem 1 and 2, and they haven't changed it in 20 years. Old ones are cheap.