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Sith_Mauler  4 stars
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Registered: 2002-12-21 13:40:03
$550 for 4 books

but picking up a toshiba thrive tomorrow for a $150 price valid only for current students.


cheapest on google shopping is $365

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older editions are usuaully just as good

 

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Sith_Mauler  4 stars
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mightbe posted:

older editions are usuaully just as good



2 workbooks came to $225

 

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Jezza_Belle  4 stars
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I hate instructors that use workbooks.

I got one book free from torrent, the other three were cheapo books on amazon.

 

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regulator_cracka  4 stars
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odd, I found the toshiba thrive for $225 + 100 gift certificate, no tax and free shipping.

 

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ArchrikerHG  2 stars
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look online for books...a lot of them can be found for free (not necessarily legal) or for reduced prices. Also, there are places you can rent books too...and I found that Amazon or half.com are a lot better than my school bookstores ever were, and you can get a guaranteed buy-back on a lot of the books.

 

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i really hate buying accounting books and workbooks. they are BIG and expensive.

 

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Malrothien  2 stars
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Our books for 8 classes came out to $350. Gotta love renting.

 

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Sith_Mauler  4 stars
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The professor I have who is teaching geology, used to run copies off from his workbook and hand them out for the past years.(I had him for 2 other sciences.)

Then we create a lab journal, apparently the school told him he couldn't, something to do with copy-right issues or something.(really now how many teachers make copies from their books, it happens all the time)

So now instead of buying a $5 tabbed folder/notebook to keep and add stuff too, now its a $120+ for a stupid workbook.

The other one is for the study of personality traits and disorders.

 

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