<p>I haven't so much as cracked my physics book open once this year, and my school made me pay $30 (used) for it. Some unlucky saps were forced to buy it new for ~$150 though, so I suppose I shouldn't complain. My psych book hasn't been opened very often either this past semester, and the book I had to buy for Jesuit Spirituality -- a biography of Ignatius de Loyola -- was lost promptly lost after it arrived (bought on amazon). I've not needed it at all.</p>
<p>I've never opened my physics book either. All of our homework is on worksheets handed out. I like that better, since I can actually document the types of problems I'm doing.</p>
<p>Same as AeroEngineer3141. Also, we have English textbooks, which feature an assortment of short stories and poems from around the world, but we've never used it. I also have an art class book--Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. It's actually a really cool book, but we never use it!</p>
<p>Haven't touched:</p>
<p>-English textbook (all the stories/hw are on handouts/worksheets)
-APUSH textbook of documents (what's the point...all the DBQs have the documents on them and I'm already overwhelmed with the textbook)</p>
<p>The entire textbook industry is nothing more than a manipulative scam. In college, you'll have to spend half a thousand dollars each semester on textbooks, and chances are:</p>
<ol>
<li>You could have obtained the same information from the internet for free, and if not,</li>
<li>You could have obtained the same information from an older, much cheaper textbook, and if not,</li>
<li>You could have shared the expensive textbook with a group of classmates, cutting costs threefold, if not more.</li>
</ol>
<p>Of course, you're not allowed to do any of these. It's not about you learning the information; it's about them taking your money, and giving you over-priced hard-cover-bound paper in return. Some college bookstores "buy back" your books, but for a textbook you paid $200 for, they'll give you about $35. That, along with tuition, is how the college affords to spend money on all those programs that you'll likely never use. -_-</p>
<p>Well we don't have to buy any textbooks..except for AP classes we have AP prep books we are required to have.</p>
<p>However, most of my teachers force us in some way to use our textbook (notes, WS, projects..etc). I use all of mine ALOT. Sometimes I don't WANT to ...but we're forced to take notes from it. But most of the time, they come in handy!
We don't have a textbook for english..just a bunch of random books we use occasionally for reference and such.</p>
<p>We don't have to buy any textbooks either - we just get them loaned out to us and we return them at the end of the year. I have no idea what the inside of my Physics text looks like.</p>
<p>we got loaned all our textbooks from the school, except for the economics kids who had the buy them cause they change every year... and some of the languages had workbooks.. but seriously if I had to buy all my maths textbooks I would have been screwed... i ended up with like 9. But I bought all these extra books with extra work in them... so I ended up with more like 15 textbooks for maths... some of them which I never touched.</p>
<p>Definitely not. I pretty much nevertouch my French book. In chem, our teacher has to assign us one, but we knew from the start than no one would use it.</p>