<p>I'm not sure if I should sell my textbooks or not. Of course I want the money back, but what if for some bizarre reason I might need to look back at my Calculus textbook? Has anyone who has kept his or her textbooks used any of them after the class is over?</p>
<p>I kept math and spanish books until I finished the requirements and was sure I wouldn’t need them anymore. I keep major related books if they are interesting. I sell everything else.</p>
<p>I kept a Child Psych book to use as a reference. Very useful.</p>
<p>I keep all of my major’s books as well as the ones tangentially related. I’m in engineering, and I’ve had to hit up my calc, physics, and chem books a number of times either for data tables or an easier way to find a complicated formula than hunting it down online.</p>
<p>I used to work at the college bookstore- my job was buying back textbooks. Occasionally, I would have a customer who had graduated a while before who wanted to sell their textbooks and were shocked to hear their books were worthless. Many textbooks are revised often and become worthless pretty quickly. They would say, “I don’t know why I kept them, I never looked at them again”. </p>
<p>If you want the money, then sell them quickly.</p>
<p>You have to becareful when you resell your text books. You will most likely get ripped off by selling your physics 1a $180 book to the campus book store, I think there are sites where you can sell textbooks and get a decent amount for them. But yeah do it, if you need the money.</p>
<p>I make a profit off my books on amazon.</p>
<p>I recommend trying to sell your textbooks back to your school bookstore or on an online site like half.com. According to this article, you should keep any books you feel you might need in the future.
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That’s sound advice. They also recommend renting your books, citing it as the cheaper option, so you might want to consider that in the future.</p>
<p>I’m a book-whore, so I’ll most likely be keeping all of mine.</p>
<p>With things like calculus, chances are your class notes will be just as valuable as your textbook.</p>
<p>I’d sell it back. Also, calculus is so common that pretty much anything you could want to know you can find online.</p>
<p>I only really keep books for my major. I’m pretty glad I did, actually- I just found out today that the same book I used for the intro class (barely used it) is also the required text for a class I’m taking this semester.</p>