By toothbreaker - 22/08/2019 11:00 - United States - Tucson

Today, I bought my very first college textbook. I received a stack of hole-punched papers. My $195 "book" isn’t even bound together. FML
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TxKitten79 10

Yep. welcome to college. Take some advice... never buy new if you can help it. Google "buy used textbooks." You can save 50% or more on a lot of books by not buying new from the bookstore.

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smartjaguargurl 17

Oh honey just wait. Welcome to college

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mekiswrite 21

One of my classes had that too. It was the only one I bought new because I didn't trust the used version not to be missing pages

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kenken5 16

It’s just a loose leaf book. I would assume it would be specified when you ordered as either soft cover, hard cover, or loose leaf. It’s really not that uncommon. You just buy a $2 binder and you’ll be all set!

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bluhbluhbluh 14

Try to find an older student willing to sell their books for cheaper. Also, Amazon sometimes has much cheaper second hand books.

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Sarah_360767614 8

Yeah? That’s called loose leaf? It’s a thing..?

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tckm1699 7

Always check amazon, just put the ISBN number in the search bar and most will be there. Amazon rental is great. There was one book I had to get last semester that would’ve been $160 to rent because the school store only had it new ($60 to rent used if I remember correctly) and amazon had it to rent for $25. The book came in a few days and the return date was about 2 weeks after the semester ended. My plan was to ship to back before I left the dorm but in the chaos of finals and packing it was easier to send it back once I got home. When you’re ready to return it you just go on amazon and they’ll give you a packing slip to use. You just need to get a box or a packing envelope, tape the packing slip on, and bring it to the post office.

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Celeste Terese Stratos 4

done this before and somehow my rentals were lost between the post office and Amazon. About $300 dollars and a couple months later, the books found their way to Amazon. Still out the money though..

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MitiMiki 16

Higher education has turned into nothing more than a cash grab. I wish I could tell you this was unusual, but it's not. Just wait until you get a professor that makes you buy the book they wrote and see how violated you feel...

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