Guess my university was just better at giving options for accessing the material. A good ~30% of the classes didn't even require books (lectures and chapters w

Guess my university was just better at giving options for accessing the material. A good ~30% of the classes didn't even require books (lectures and chapters were available online), and the other 60% you could easy get used books for half the cost. The last 10% were classes where you had to buy a "workbook", which were only available new, but they didn't come anywhere close to $300, maybe 80-100.