Seriously. I have spent hundreds of dollars on books for my pre-req classes, 90% of which were never even used by the professor.
You can never sell them back to the school because they are going with a new edition every semester.
Now they have started this thing where they are selling the most expensive books unbound. So you have to put them in a binder. They say it saves you money ($10) but you cant sell them back and the papers tear out so easily in the binder no one wants to buy them used.
It's really starting to irritate me, I wouldn't care if the books were actually used to fork over the money, but I will spend $200/book and then the professor wants us to print us hundreds of dollars of ink/paper printing out their notes/power points because they don't like the book. Um, what?!
Well, at least one thing about college hasn't changed in the last 40 years. Granted, while my books didn't cost nearly what they do now, back in 1975, half my books for pre-req courses sat in my bookcase gathering dust, and my Nursing texts even then averaged around $100 apiece.
Since you will use that $1,000 book throughout, at least you can divide it by semesters to get the per semester cost.
Really, I would look into other places to get that one. Any of the places quoted. I don't think renting it through Amazon would work since it is a multi-semester book.
There wasn't any book that I purchased through the school's bookstore. I could usually find them for less elsewhere.
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Who uses Mountain Dew to clean a g-tube?!
You'd be surprised, generally it's good old Coca~Cola which by the way will clean the crude off of your car's battery and connecting cables. I like a cold coke every once in a while but just think about that for a minute...
If I bought all my texts through the college book store, they would have been over $1,500. I got them all on Amazon and spent less than $900. I could have gotten them cheaper used, but for nursing school, I wanted the new books. I was able to sell the majority of them to students in the cohorts behind me once I was done with school. Ended up getting more per book that way than trying to sell back books to the college book store. The other students got books in nearly new condition for a fraction of the cost and I made back a decent chunk of my money. Win-win
Our 2nd year of our ADN program the 4 sections were divided. Groups A and B flipped sections halfway through the fall semester as did groups C & D. Then in the spring groups c and d took the classes a and b took in the fall. We worked it out where us in group A switched our books with group B in the fall and the in the spring we traded with group C or D, whoever had the text we needed. Talk about royally pissing the campus bookstore off! They were out money and none too happy!
I am in my last trimester of my BSN program and I have kept every book from every class. Partly because each one is valuable to me and having them helps me remember. And largely because I have this fantasy of stacking them in two piles, standing between them, and having my portrait taken. I will post this photo to my Facebook with the words, "This is everything you need to know to be a Bachelor's Nurse."
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Jensmom7, BSN, RN
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Well, at least one thing about college hasn't changed in the last 40 years. Granted, while my books didn't cost nearly what they do now, back in 1975, half my books for pre-req courses sat in my bookcase gathering dust, and my Nursing texts even then averaged around $100 apiece.