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[Bellsprout]

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[bigbob]

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I love Aldis.. and if you're ever looking for a job where you want to do almost nothing but sit on your *** all day for like $13 an hour, apply there as a cashier.

[BurghFan]

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**** loose leaf textbooks, especially when your binder's rings have any gap at all between them.

Do you mean a 3-ring binder? If there is a gap between the 2 halves of the rings when the binder is closed then the spine of the binder is broken causing it to be misaligned. Either that or you have it too full.

I never had any true leaf textbooks. Closest I had were booklets of figures that were bound with those plastic bindings that have the prongs that go through a series of slit-like holes along the entire length of the page.

If there's anything I've learned from this thread, it's respect the gap.

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Full disclosure: I'm old, I don't even know what "gap" means when these guys talk about it

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[l3ulvl]

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Do you mean a 3-ring binder? If there is a gap between the 2 halves of the rings when the binder is closed then the spine of the binder is broken causing it to be misaligned. Either that or you have it too full.

I never had any true leaf textbooks. Closest I had were booklets of figures that were bound with those plastic bindings that have the prongs that go through a series of slit-like holes along the entire length of the page.



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Something tells me that's not the gap they reference

[TCM]

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Do you mean a 3-ring binder? If there is a gap between the 2 halves of the rings when the binder is closed then the spine of the binder is broken causing it to be misaligned. Either that or you have it too full.

I never had any true leaf textbooks. Closest I had were booklets of figures that were bound with those plastic bindings that have the prongs that go through a series of slit-like holes along the entire length of the page.

Yeah it's probably too full, but the book itself is like 800 pages and I already have a jumbo binder so it's kind of hard to avoid.

[bigbob]

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Ugh. I wanted to get Grand Theft Auto and it took everything I could not to go buy it yesterday. I'm going to head to a job fair at the campus Thursday and hopefully find something, and than I want to give my mom $500.

[BurghFan]

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Yeah it's probably too full, but the book itself is like 800 pages and I already have a jumbo binder so it's kind of hard to avoid.

Wow! 800 pages is just a bit ridiculous when it comes to unbound books.

[TCM]

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Wow! 800 pages is just a bit ridiculous when it comes to unbound books.

It's a freaking nightmare, there's literally nothing good about it.

[JazzMan]

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Deja vu... I have it relatively often. Probably 3 or so times a month. And as it's happening, I'm like this happened before and no matter how I try to change it, the moment is gone and I can't do something different. In fact, sometimes trying to do something different is exactly what happened.

I swear, I go through Deja Vu at least once a week. Somehow, in some random situation, I'll feel as though the exact thing that's happening has already happened. Whether it was in a dream or what. It's trippy ****, man. Makes you wonder.

[Redacted01]

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Loose leaf textbooks let you know your professor is at least somewhat of an *******. Can't sell them back, they tear, easy to lose pages. Everything about them is awful.

Not necessarily. I had to get a looseleaf textbook for Animal Phys years ago. The hardback they had before was $200 something new and a decent used copy cost around $100. The looseleaf was $75. Guess what? You could sell it to someone taking the class the next year so it's not like it is not able to be resold, and your friend would pay more than the book store because they can't buy one cheaper than the bookstore to begin with. If you were to sell back the hardback version, you might make a few bucks, but I'd bet you'd still be out upwards of $75... the same it cost you for a book you now get to keep if you want. If you have high priced looseleafs, I can understand but ours were also pretty low compared to hardback.

[TCM]

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Not necessarily. I had to get a looseleaf textbook for Animal Phys years ago. The hardback they had before was $200 something new and a decent used copy cost around $100. The looseleaf was $75. Guess what? You could sell it to someone taking the class the next year so it's not like it is not able to be resold, and your friend would pay more than the book store because they can't buy one cheaper than the bookstore to begin with. If you were to sell back the hardback version, you might make a few bucks, but I'd bet you'd still be out upwards of $75... the same it cost you for a book you now get to keep if you want. If you have high priced looseleafs, I can understand but ours were also pretty low compared to hardback.

Mine was $150 and I would gladly pay more money for a hardback, they're way less hassle.

[Watson]

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I still haven't ordered any textbooks. And I even have scholarship money leftover to pay for them all. YOLO.

[Bmore Irish]

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I used to buy as few textbooks as possible every semester. I think there were a couple where I bought exactly zero. Only got them if they were necessary, like needing to quote and reference the material in a paper.

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[slickdtc]

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Books are the college hustle

[Husker_OS]

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Just set up my 2nd interview for the job in Beaverton, OR. Odds of me getting this job are better than 50% now.

Holy ****.