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The Fall of Print
xShadow:
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--- Quote from: metro. on December 25, 2012, 12:44:51 AM ---The books I use are holyshitexpensive. I'm going to have a fortune of useless textbooks by the time I graduate.
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Why not just sell them off to other people who take the same course later?
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Because once it's been used the price, at least here, reduces greatly. As well as many textbooks get new editions every year, and thus they drop in price from that as well.
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The smart thing to do, if you care to plan ahead, is to shop around somewhere like half.com. The books that you buy there will often sell for the exact same price you bought them for (barring new editions and any abuse you make the book sustain of course). Honestly they just release the new editions just so you won't do that. They don't get money from recycled books.
I just graduated an engineering college, and I've done it all. I've rented, purchased, bought used at school store, bought used online, - ahem- downloaded, etc. Renting (Chegg) is alright if you don't care to plan, but by far the worst deal is buying and selling at your college book store. Their used prices are not absolutely terrible, but they rip you off hard on the selling price. I mean technically if you keep it in good condition, you might make slightly more back selling rather than renting at half price.. But you're still generally better off selling it online.
On a side note one time I got lucky at Chegg and won some Apple video editing program. Sold it on ebay for some $6xx and used it to build this computer.
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vuzedome:
Wait, we had a topic discussing this quite some time ago and there were pretty decent points being raised. Someone go dig up that thread.
bunalz:
--- Quote from: vuzedome on December 28, 2012, 04:35:03 AM ---Wait, we had a topic discussing this quite some time ago and there were pretty decent points being raised. Someone go dig up that thread.
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I just finished browsing the whole technology thread, reading suspicious and ambiguous topics. Found nothing similar, but these are the closest.
iRock707:
I would definitely prefer reading a book if the medium is actually very long. It's really a strain in the eyes to keep on reading something in front of a computer screen. But a good thing about this case is that trees will be saved instead of getting cut and turned into books. And also, I agree that books are so expensive. *sigh*
I wouldn't be surprised if the time will come where books are just antiques. Though I would definitely prefer that not to happen.
Freedom Kira:
--- Quote from: bunalz on December 28, 2012, 11:53:35 AM ---I just finished browsing the whole technology thread...
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Are you serious? You mean the entire board? It's 57 pages long. Must have taken you at least an hour.
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