<p>do you save your books? i save all of my books. i have my own personal library. it is awesome.</p>
<p>Yes, unless it's a general ed/humanities class. Also have all my notes/hw/etc files in a cabinet. I've used them a few times, but not as often as I would have thought.</p>
<p>I save my math books and EE books, because in higher division class I will need to read these books to refresh my memory. For example, for my integrated circuits class, I need to look back to my circuit book from previous class for op-amp. And for my signal processing book, I need to look my old math book for fourier series.</p>
<p>No not really. I am not sentimental about these books.</p>
<p>Yes, I recommend you save them for future classes and for your career. They can come in handy.</p>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p>Usually the money gained from selling the book isn't enough and I find myself often looking at past books to brush up on proofs or looking for specific data.</p>
<p>I think im going to ditch my first year chem book, and geology. But I fully plan on keeping my Java/C++/calc/EE books, and maybe even my physics. My dad still has all of his college books form the 70s on EE and says he uses them quite frequently</p>
<p>I've kept all my books, and it's coming in very handy right now when I'm studying for my FE exam. Lots of stuff I learned freshman and sophomore year I had forgotten, so it does help to have my old books around.</p>
<p>I plan on keeping mine and having a cool EE/math/physics bookshelf. You hardly get anything for selling them back, so why not?</p>
<p>ehh I dont save any of my books. Nowadays everything's on wikipedia, and books run obsolete really soon anyways.</p>
<p>Wikipedia is not the same. Not even remotely.</p>
<p>haha true, you need to save some to re-learn how to solve problems. Save the major-related ones like math physics engineering. Throw away the humanitiies ones or sell them :D</p>
<p>Yeah and physics changes so much that in 10 years my book will be "obsolete". I think the only obsolete books will be the fluffy, non-technical engineering books. Everything else, well, magnetism and gravity and integrals will still be around in 30 years. I hope.</p>
<p>It is also nice to have books on specific technical properties, such as the ASM handbook of Ashby charts. Usually these are found in the college library or require access to expensive databases.</p>
<p>If it's a good book, I'll keep it. If I opened it two times the whole semester, then I'll sell it.</p>
<p>I save most of my books, but it's not as bad or expensive as it sounds. If you bought it used or discounted you're not going to get as much money back selling it anyways. </p>
<p>Plus, not all courses use textbooks. Of the 4 courses I'm taking this semester, two require textbooks (costing $70 and $120 respectively) and the other two don't. One of the other two has a course reader of several hundred pages of notes ($12) while the other is a set of paperbacks (total $45 or so)</p>