What do you have to buy? How much is it costing you? Where are you buying them?

Well I'm taking Chem, Pre-Calc, English, and Intro to Engineering.

Chem - Chem textbook, solutions manual, lab notebook, lab manual, online homework access code, lab goggles 220$

Pre-Calc - Textbook, solutions manual, online homework thing again 150$

English - Longman handbook, some book called "I say, they say" 100$

Intro to Engineering - None

With tax it came out to almost an even 500$. I could've found most of the books used and the solutions manuals weren't really necessary but I figure they'll help farther into the semester or next semester for Chem if I get lost. I got all the books by the way at my school store because I had classes that required the books by the second class and I didn't want to bother with ordering online and waiting.

I'm hitting up amazon for most of my textbooks because the jews run the bookstore on my campus (ie the cost is double that of amazon).

I've bought three books that I needed immediately, and they came out to $535. The good thing is that 2 of them I will be using next semester. I'll have to buy another book, but I'm probably gonna get it on half.com, which seems to have pretty good deals.

I just checked amazon for a price comparison. It would only save me $20, as compared to the college bookstore. Also, the college bookstore provides a course package that I can't avoid picking up. I'll, of course, check out the campus's used bookstore.

It's sounding as if I'm going to just go through the school to pick up my books. They only come to just under $300, so it's not as bad of a hit to the wallet as in the past.

One of my books would've cost me $110 (plus tax) at the university bookstore but I found it on Amazon for under $5. However, they didn't ship that book internationally. Later on I found it on craigslist for $40.

I'll be buying the rest of my books from people selling them on Facebook and from a discount textbook store.

My goal is not to buy a single book this semester. I'll get them from libraries (and interlibrary loan) or from bookstores and take advantage of their return policy. I may very well buy a book several times over the course of the semester.

My goal is not to buy a single book this semester. I'll get them from libraries (and interlibrary loan) or from bookstores and take advantage of their return policy. I may very well buy a book several times over the course of the semester.

This, honestly.

My schedule is in the schedule thread.

My school has an amazing course reserve system where you can check out textbooks for short periods of time ranging from 1 hour to 2 days. I'm not going to need a book longer than 2 hours a day, and even if I did I'd return it and check it out again. There's no point in dragging a book home or even highlighting shit because I take notes well and am in the top .1% for my age in long-term memory. I am spending absolutely nothing this semester on books, but because I wasn't as aware of what I needed to do to get these textbooks (like ILL) I may end up buying one or maybe 2, but it won't be more than $50 total.

I've managed to find every textbook on piratebay.org so I'm not buying any books.

I spent about 300 on texts this semester. I found an old edition of my 200 dollar biochem book on torrents though, so that was nice.

Only had to get textbooks for my Calculus and Linear Algebra, I got them at a discount shop for $240 and they both (2) came with their Solution manuals. All my other classes just work through stuff they give us in class or stuff that we can either choose to get ourselves our not.

My books so far were just under $100. This is an exceptionally cheap semester.

I always wait until a week or two in to buy the books. A few I buy right away, but I usually find that in at least a class or two each semester, I don't really need the book.

here at my uni, we have regular text books, which are the ones you would normally expect (hardcover), and course packs, which are A4 pages stapled together, written by the professors of that university, so it ensures we get what we need. generally, we have to buy the course pack since there are solutions and past exams there, and dont really need the real textbooks, though some people still buy them

so far, i havent bought a single hardcover textbook in the past year, but i have bought:
2 x $55 maths coursepacks, (one for each semester)
1x $20 chemistry coursepack + lab manual
1 x $35 physics lab book

so a grand total of $AUD 110

Organic Chemistry textbook, solutions manual, nomenclature handbook and molecular model kit - around $400

Chemical Engineering analysis-$8 (my teacher is awesome and let us use a book before its been published so its cheap)

Thermal Physics and Lab handbook- $75

Quantum Physics and Lab handbook- around $60

Mathematical Analysis and Topology- $50

So the total is $593 with around 2/3 of that just from Organic chem, and I even got them books used.

is that for one semester, or the whole year?

is that for one semester, or the whole year?

One semester. Luckily all the organic chemistry stuff is used again for organic chem II which I take next semester, but then my chemical engineering thermodynamics will probably cost me about $200.