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I spent around $500 the first semester for 17 books. I used textbooks.com as well. Some of my classmates spent over $1,000 on brand new books from the campus bookstore!!!
But I do have one exciting piece of news! I'm going into my final semester in Jan. and they just told us this will be the first semester that we DON"T have to buy any books!!!
YAY!!!!! :biggringi
I managed to get a copy of the book list and am working on tracking them down as cheaply as possible...
22 books on my list for 36 credit hours. Total cost new without figuring taxes is roughly $725.00. I have been ebaying and web surfing like crazy to save$$
On a side note, I use fetch book and it is awesome. If you put the ISBN number in it will come back with a list of all the places that have it for sale
srose
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so i bit the bullet today and bought my textbooks for my first quarter in nursing school!!! to be honest, although it was expensive, i spent about $150 less than i had expected, based on what i'd heard from orientation and our college bookstore. even after purchasing many of the 'optional' books, my total was only $375, for nine books.
i highly recommend ecampus.com and barnes and noble (bn.com) for discount textbooks, i even managed to find some used (in new condition) books that were just published last quarter.
out of curiosity, if anyone wants to share, is this about average for books for first quarter (or semester) in nursing school? (we're told we'll use these same books for several quarters). good luck to everyone starting in january!
~rose