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[icepixie]

Ugh. $376 for 27 books. Grrr.

Way...too...hot...without...power...for...A/C...

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[stars-like-dust.livejournal.com]

You are lucky. I paid $250 for four.

Yes. Four.

4.

As in, the number after 3.

*glowers at UQ maths department*

[alethialia.livejournal.com]

$177.58 for one.

One.

I feel like my book prices are akin to Congress' Appropriations Bills. Because then the exorbitant prices for no apparent reason would at least make sense.

[fiara.livejournal.com]

I started out at about $150 for my books. But my French book is going to be about $50 and I still have to be a History of Russia. Oh well.

[spleeny.livejournal.com]

Last year I spent something like $340 on five books, I think. And then one of them was stolen. Never replaced.

This year I'm at $272 for 12. But I'm going to get about $45 back when I return the 3 Medieval books.

I suppose I'm just echoing the sentiment that $376 is a great price for 27 books. I'm just glad I'm not an English major so I never have to buy 27 books at once.

[icepixie]

I suppose I'm just echoing the sentiment that $376 is a great price for 27 books.

Still highway robbery, though. These are crappy paperbacks with broken bindings and wrinkled pages. They would be worth about 50 cents in a used bookstore.

I'm just glad I'm not an English major so I never have to buy 27 books at once.

Actually, only half of these are for my two English classes. The others are for my hsitory and Bio in Sci-Fi classes. Scary, huh?

[icepixie]

Ellen spent $162 on her Russian books (a textbook, a workbook, a tape, and a video). Highway robbery, I tell you...

[icepixie]

Oh. Dear. God.

*faints*

[icepixie]

Ah, see, you had to buy actual textbooks. That's where they really screw you.

*is so glad she's a humanities major and has never had to take a math class here* ;)

[spleeny.livejournal.com]

Still highway robbery, though. These are crappy paperbacks with broken bindings and wrinkled pages. They would be worth about 50 cents in a used bookstore.

Quick math. It comes to an average of almost $14 per book. For books in condition that bad, it really is ridiculous. Although if you tried to sell the books back you'd probably get a quarter for each book.

Actually, only half of these are for my two English classes. The others are for my hsitory and Bio in Sci-Fi classes. Scary, huh?

It really is.

[icepixie]

It comes to an average of almost $14 per book. For books in condition that bad, it really is ridiculous.

Yes, it is. And I got some of the nicer ones when I could--the ones without writing all over them.

Although if you tried to sell the books back you'd probably get a quarter for each book.

I think that happened last year. I spent $14 on a book and got 25 cents back, or maybe up to a dollar. I don't really remember. I do remember spending $50 on an anthology of poetry and getting, like, $13 back for it. Uuuuugh.