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If so, how come that isn't illegal yet? a solid gold text book for humanities 100 
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Yes, the total for my books for this past semester was 250 dollars or like 150 to rent them. Instead I found PDFs and paid 0 dollars for them
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Mar 19, 2017 15:35
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Because they can? The whole college/student loans/books thing is a giant scam. Even downloading PDFs doesn't always work because now most books come with a one time use code that you have to put into a website to access some useless garbage online.
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Mar 19, 2017 15:40
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Tiny Lowtax posted:Because they can? I had to do that for a grand total of three classes. PDFs and buying the International Edition for peanuts works 95% of the time.
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Mar 19, 2017 15:42
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An educated poor is a dangerous poor
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Mar 19, 2017 15:44
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I just didn't buy the books or go to class and still got a degree with a unimpressive GPA.
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Mar 19, 2017 15:45
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CJacobs posted:Yes, the total for my books for this past semester was 250 dollars or like 150 to rent them. Instead I found PDFs and paid 0 dollars for them Works right up until the required text is something your professor wrote and is only sold on the campus library. Talk about a racket.
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Mar 19, 2017 15:45
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Kibbles n Shits posted:Works right up until the required text is something your professor wrote and is only sold on the campus library. Talk about a racket. That's why copy machines exist.
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Mar 19, 2017 15:49
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Kibbles n Shits posted:Works right up until the required text is something your professor wrote and is only sold on the campus library. Talk about a racket. That's usually a short academic book for normal book prices though, if it's good and the prof is good it's literally what you're going to school for
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Mar 19, 2017 15:50
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Kibbles n Shits posted:Works right up until the required text is something your professor wrote and is only sold on the campus library. Talk about a racket. That used to be super common when I was going to school. The college would monopolize the textbook game and all of the graded assignments and tests were specific to the most current textbook so you were hosed into paying 3-400 ish bucks for a book when everyone drat well knows how much a book costs.
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Mar 19, 2017 15:51
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emoji posted:That's why copy machines exist. Sure, but it's not nearly as easy as just Googling [textbookname].pdf and saving $300 in 5 minutes.
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Mar 19, 2017 15:53
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I don't need books to work at mcdonald's op
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Mar 19, 2017 15:54
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I am at a local community college studying history and philosophy, so books are completely optional. The only thing that counts towards my final grade is my feelings but God loving dammit I will make my feelings known on every Internet forum known to man.
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Mar 19, 2017 15:54
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shovelbum posted:That's usually a short academic book for normal book prices though, if it's good and the prof is good it's literally what you're going to school for When it happened to me, the book was $80 and was a plastic ring bound hackjob of a book that was all of 30 pages, mostly worksheets. The prof was pretty good though.
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Mar 19, 2017 15:55
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spud posted:I am at a local community college studying history and philosophy. Hahahaha
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Mar 19, 2017 15:57
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Blue Train posted:Hahahaha *proudly wears itt tech alumni hat*
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Mar 19, 2017 15:59
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Kibbles n Shits posted:Works right up until the required text is something your professor wrote and is only sold on the campus library. Talk about a racket. One of my math professors used an open source textbook, so it was only like 20 bucks, and as far as I could tell just as good as 200+ dollar ones Need more of those imo ya know
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Mar 19, 2017 16:02
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CJacobs posted:Yes, the total for my books for this past semester was 250 dollars or like 150 to rent them. Instead I found PDFs and paid 0 dollars for them The true college experience.
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Mar 19, 2017 16:05
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Tiny Lowtax posted:Because they can? My school often streamlines this process by having the professor write the book, and the code that comes with it allows access to the schools own online learning software Fortunately this benefited me because I could just borrow a classmates book, show the IT guys 'Idk man it just didn't have a code in it' and they'd give me access to it One time they accidentally gave me admin access but I didn't do anything neat with it 
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Mar 19, 2017 16:22
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I had a stretch where my professors manually uploaded all the individual articles they wanted us to read, in PDF form, on the class website, organization used by week/topic, and with recommended supplemental reading. Those Professors were heroes.
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Mar 19, 2017 18:01
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It's always good when you get one that says "this is the book for the class, but don't buy it because we're going to go over everything that's in it in class anyway". Which is why I always wait a few days before even going to the effort to look for them.
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Mar 19, 2017 18:03
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No textbooks in the school of hard knocks op.
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Mar 19, 2017 18:04
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Lol if you didn't go to a good enough school, where the professors use the textbooks they wrote and use students as free editors.
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Mar 19, 2017 18:12
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Steal them from the campus book store then sell them back when you're done
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Mar 19, 2017 18:21
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My degree ended up with me buying textbooks that stayed useful for me throughout, and still are kind of. I still spent many hundreds on them all ofc.
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Mar 19, 2017 18:23
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interwhat posted:Steal them from the campus book store then sell them back when you're done Our bookstore makes you check your bags at the door for this reason.
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Mar 19, 2017 18:24
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I just take the grade hit. gently caress textbooks.
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Mar 19, 2017 18:30
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lol if you think they will provide you with a golden book for your money. now a days you dont even get a paper photocopy. they make you pay $200 for the "online code" that "unlocks" an ebook for 4 months. oh whats that you think you can learn from an old book for cheaper? well gently caress you, the homework requires you to submit your work through the same online account as the textbook. i hope you like failing university
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Mar 19, 2017 18:33
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i got a film degree, so my textbook was a $500 copy of Bowfinger
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Mar 19, 2017 18:34
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Rutibex posted:lol if you think they will provide you with a golden book for your money. now a days you dont even get a paper photocopy. they make you pay $200 for the "online code" that "unlocks" an ebook for 4 months. A friend of mine just finished her masters and yup this is exactly how it goes down
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Mar 19, 2017 18:34
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Rutibex posted:lol if you think they will provide you with a golden book for your money. now a days you dont even get a paper photocopy. they make you pay $200 for the "online code" that "unlocks" an ebook for 4 months. Hack the planet!
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Mar 19, 2017 18:34
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There was one class where she had to buy a multiple hundred dollar physical book and a 90 dollar online access code, the sole purpose of which was to allow her to submit her assignments
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Mar 19, 2017 18:35
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Blue Train posted:There was one class where she had to buy a multiple hundred dollar physical book and a 90 dollar online access code, the sole purpose of which was to allow her to submit her assignments Was the publisher of said book, by chance, Pearson Education?
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Mar 19, 2017 18:36
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They really scam the gently caress out of kids today don't they lol
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Mar 19, 2017 18:39
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Blue Train posted:There was one class where she had to buy a multiple hundred dollar physical book and a 90 dollar online access code, the sole purpose of which was to allow her to submit her assignments Is she hot?
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Mar 19, 2017 18:39
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Kibbles n Shits posted:Was the publisher of said book, by chance, Pearson Education? Ding ding Dave_Indeed posted:Is she hot? Her face is ok but she has big rear end titties so those are what I mainly look at
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Mar 19, 2017 18:41
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Blue Train posted:Ding ding You like face and tits, I like rear end and tits. Tits. Titsbook cost 500 dolla. Tits.
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Mar 19, 2017 18:45
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I really enjoyed buying textbooks that the professors wrote and self-published on Amazon. They get to set their own price and the profit goes right into their pockets. Such an obvious conflict of interest and should be banned
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Mar 19, 2017 18:47
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I like when pearson bugs out and doesnt work or is down for maintenance which is frequently. those guys are the biggest loving criminals dude. gently caress them.
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McGraw does this too but nothing comes close to the fuckery of Pearson. You pay poo poo loads of money and half the time the system doesn't even work as it should. It works great for professors and TAs though, since they get to grade literally nothing all year as it's all automated for them. Screws students though.
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