College textbooks are a huge rip-off
Posted By nikki on July 26, 2008
I’ve been reading some articles here and there about how some college textbooks are available online for free downloads, but every time I try to find the free downloads I can’t find them. I’ve been looking for them because I want to be able to tell my friends and relatives where they can get these books. College textbooks have always been a curse to me - in order to take the college course you have to buy the textbook. There are very few places that you can buy the textbook, and you end up paying anywhere from $50 on up for the book. Sometimes you can buy it used, but often you have to pay for it new.
At the end of the semester, if you are lucky you can sell it back to the bookstore, but at a small fraction of the original price. At least half of the time, however, I have found that they WON’T buy it back because the professor has decided to use a different textbook the next semester, so I am stuck with a book I will never use again. I don’t want to throw it away, so I have a bookcase full of used college textbooks that I can’t sell, or give away, (even the public libraries don’t want them) and will never use again.
Maybe I should go onto Freecycle and offer them up to people who like to do Altered Book crafting! You know, at least SOMEONE would get some use out of them!
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