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I cannot imagine paying £86 for any book tbh. That seems crazy high.
by gambiting 2y ago
I cannot imagine paying £86 for any book tbh. That seems crazy high.
- burkaman 2y agoDon't go to college, you'll have to do that 5 times every semester.
- gambiting 2y agoOh I forgot that's a thing in some countries. I did both of my university degrees just borrowing books needed from the library, they have to have enough copies for every student if needed.
- tucnak 2y agoAmerican way of life
- Izkata 2y agoMost of the time we'd end up with a group of friends where we'd each buy a different book then share among each other. Not many were spending the whole amount every semester, especially past the first year when we didn't really know any better.
- exoverito 2y agoLuckily most of my courses did not require textbooks. Though it was easy enough to get PDFs on libgen.
- michaelt 2y agoBut did you get a loan and.... pay for it in instalments?
- JonChesterfield 2y agoConsider that some technical books have a potential target audience of thousand or so people. Then ask how many hours the book needs to save you to be worth $100. Depending on the book that can look very cheap.
- marcus_holmes 2y agoI think I paid similar for Wolfram's A New Kind of Science back in the early 00's. Huge great beast of a hardback tome, promising the secrets of the universe. I don't think I ever finished it, and ended up giving it away to a charity shop after schlepping it around the world with me, unread.