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Do You Keep The Textbooks From Classes In Your Major?


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goldenchild17

I sell all mine on ebay when I'm done with them. None of the texts I use in class are worth the ink they're printed on, much less worth keeping them around.

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alicemary

Most text books are outdated by time by have been printed. Some things like literature may never change, but anything with facts etc are fairly useless in a year or so. Keep them for sentimental value, or because you enjoyed it. I would sell anything I could. I kept my books from nursing school and after carting them around for several decades tossed them a couple years back, they were antiques!! Valueless antiques!! The last couple semesters at school I stopped buying text books and did my work from online sources.

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icelandic_iceskater

[quote name='goldenchild17' post='1522995' date='May 9 2008, 02:08 AM']None of the texts I use in class are worth the ink they're printed on[/quote]
your textbooks are printed on ink? :huh:

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premed_jakey

I kept most books that I had for my major. I sold back ones that I could not stand, and the bookstore would actually give me money for.

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VeniteAdoremus

I keep them all. They're extremely sexy, and they scare people, which is pretty cool. (And my friends from lower years keep stealing them so I won't have any problems with cleaning up if I ever want to...)

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Cure of Ars

I kept mine. Didn't seem right selling a book back for 5$ when I bought it for $50. I basically use them as a decoration in my office at work.

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goldenchild17

[quote name='icelandic_iceskater' post='1523082' date='May 9 2008, 07:37 AM']your textbooks are printed on ink? :huh:[/quote]

old school I am :smokey:

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I always keep all my books because I always feel cheated with the amount they want to give you back. The one time I did try to sell it back they wouldn't take it. It was a math book that they had actually just photocopied and put in a binder and charged me like it was a real book. I tried to sell it back and they said they wouldn't take it. I never tried to sell anything back again.

Although when I first started I always bought new books and towards the end of my undergrad and now in grad school I buy used ones whenever possible.

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I save my Journalism stuff--particularly the Associated Press Stylebook that has pretty much everything I'll need to know for formatting journalistic writing.

I also kept my layout & design book, because it's spiralbound and has lots of pretty pictures. :mellow:

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