How much did you spend on textbooks?

<p>$110 for 3 textbooks, 2 optional study guides, almost new condition with barely any markings inside :)</p>

<p>I have to purchase about 30 books for this semester. However, most of them are novels or nonfiction paperbacks, they are not science textbooks. All of my books are new except two, and the two used books have no writing in them or any sign of wear. I still have two books to buy for english and six books for one of my other classes, but thus far I have spent $170. I typically spend about $250 total for a similar number of books. When I was doing my gen eds and had to buy science, math, and foreign language books I spent closer to $400 a semester.</p>

<p>Reading this thread makes me wonder why estimated book expenses on college websites are always like $1000</p>

<p>because they assume we all buy new.</p>

<p>Wow, I have to buy 12 books, and the total comes to around 440… I think I’m spending too much. Most of the books I’m buying are used, but the new ones I am buying are because they cost less than the used books at my book store and also the main reason is that i don’t want to get shorted with the online extras that my classes do require (i checked).</p>

<p>Are people really needing 10+ textbooks a semester? A novel isn’t a textbook…</p>

<p>If you bought even used from the university bookstore you could anticipate spending $400-$500 a semester, depending on the school I suppose. I used to my first two years of college before it occurred to me that that was stupid.</p>

<p>This semester I’m going to rack up at least $400. Can’t find my thermodynamics book for any less than $160.</p>

<p>Last semester cost me about $175. That was nice.</p>

<p>This coming semester I’m spending a grand total of $0. Of the 4 classes I signed up for, 3 I found digital copies of the books, and the other I don’t know what the book(s) are, and am guessing there aren’t any if they haven’t told us what they are yet.</p>

<p>All but one of my classes have’t released the booklist yet. :rolleyes: Less than 3 weeks away from the start of class. You’d think they’d get on that. </p>

<p>I bought from the bookstore freshman year. Biggest mistake ever. Last year, sophomore year, I spent a little over $210 per semester. I have no clue what I’ll be spending this semester, and probably won’t for awhile. Apparently most classes still have nothing listed. Ugh. </p>

<p>I should have around 9 books or so this semester though, since I know people who took the classes in previous semesters with the same professors. And I’ll probably be buying from Amazon, again. :P</p>

<p>Yes, all my classes had their booklist together except for one class too… however, I found out… literally a half hour ago from looking at my school email, that the professor sent an email out.</p>

<p>Two books, each worth over $100 new. Rented the one for about $57 and managed to buy the other one used for $25… so $82 for those two.</p>

<p>Ugh what a curveball though… go figure that last class had by far the most expensive books. Those two alone almost cost as much as all of the books for my four other classes. About $170 in total for 5 classes, 7 books 1 novel.</p>

<p>Next quarter will be my cheapest. All brand new math textbooks $250 for 5 classes Last year one quarter I spent over $1000</p>

<p>What annoys me right now are all of these professors who want the newest edition of the textbooks I need so I can’t really find huge bargains like normal. Looks like I’ll be buying international editions.</p>

<p>Yakyu, I count novels because guess what? that’s what is required of my English courses. Do you not count philosophical books as textbooks? Cause I wouldn’t count those as “novels” by any means.</p>

<p>You should definitely try Chegg.com out, not only did I save hundreds but they bought some books that the bookstore wouldn’t buyback. Also, use this coupon code CC132614 to save 5% off your order or use it for an extra $5 when selling your books through chegg. The code never expires so share it with your friends.</p>

<p>Chegg is full of it. They only let you rent for 60 days, then you have to spend that cost again to extend it. It doesn’t even cover a semester, thats really sad.</p>

<p>I smelled a scam with Chegg to begin with.</p>

<p>Chegg promoters should be more subtle at least haha…</p>

<p>It’s gonna be a bit over $600 for my books…but I have like…15 or so, and most of them will be used for the next 3 semesters…so it’s not bad.</p>

<p>I’m jealous of some of you who spend $150 for 5 books. My biology textbook alone is $150…and that’s the cheapest used price I can find (it’s $200 otherwise). Plus the philosophy class I’m taking has aother $50 of books (5 books I think, some are about $5 used and some are around $20), and the other bio book is $25 on its own. I haven’t finalized my schedule yet, but I’ll probably end up spending at least $400 on books because the math textbooks aren’t exactly cheap either.</p>