Ugh.

[Illbleed]

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[Krusshyk]

Well, to tell the truth...if I had the option to get some books online for 1/3 less money the semester I had to buy 26 books, I very well might have actually bought them. Even though I bought only 12 books and it was my second best semester gradewise, I don't know if I would attempt that again.

Most of my studying I did online anyway, so I don't see the online books as much different. Plus, if you wanted to, you could probably print the screens and give em to your friends if they offered to chip in for the initial license. Mizzou gave every student a free 180 page print limit every semester to use from any one of the public labs.

[Sai'nu]

If they'd let me access it from my home computer via a password like most College's library databases do... I think I'd be a completely internet bread online student. Could even do it while in game then! Hell yeah I'd do books this way! No sell back... but, they rip you off on sell back prices to the bookstore anyway!

[Jabe Adaks]

Let me tell you soemthing. These companies that run the bookstores at colleges are pathetic and its no surprise to me that you're seeing e-Books that continue the tradition of bending over students.

Going to college and bettering yourself as a person should be one of the few processes that should be left alone by corporate opportunists. In college, most of the books required for my classes I never bought or I would wait until I absolutely needed them. I was surprised to find that a good third of the time the teachers never actually called on reading or knowing the books to pass graded material.

Its a fucking scam and sadly the universities and professors are often roped in to having quotas to call for more than one book. When I went to DePaul they sold their bookstores to a corporation that apparently owns college bookstores across the country. The prices went way up. So I collected the ISBN numbers from the books I needed and got them from textbooks.com.

At any rate its a scam. Education is needleslly expensive in some aspects - this is one of them.

Jabe

[Dwilah]

"I think I'd rather just buy the books and have a hard copy," says hardcore Internet addict and student Kelly L. "If I'm paying for a book, why not get it, see it in my hands...donate it to the library later when I get ripped off?"

Next, your local on the 8s.

[Krusshyk]

I agree with Jabe totally...the college textbook stores are the best money making scheme in town. When you have to dump 500 bucks on books (not even buying them all) for one undergraduate semester, there is definitely something not right.

[E-bo Obi]

Then theres me. I was unable to attend a full schedule of classes one semester for health reasons. So I take a pile of these video courses. I didn't rent the video's, didn't buy the books. Somehow still ended up with a B average grossly eclipsing the mark set during my drunken stupor at UK.

I really should finish college.

* sits back in chair and sulks *