Re: Most you've overpaid...
lol ya, that's another thing I feel like I've overpaid for. I didn't pay more than they're worth, but I feel like they cost so much when alternatives are cheaper(such as not using a textbook at all,buying a previous version,or finding the textbook for free online).
It's just one pathetic scam. I had a professor who intentionally assigned the class work from the textbook, where the numbers/info in the textbook are different on a year to year basis. So if you bought the prior semesters book, you would have wrong info. That was literally the only difference between textbooks between semesters. And some even forbid you from using the ebook version of it, so if you paid for the ebook which was cheaper than the physical copy at the bookstore, you basically wasted your money cause they wouldn't allow people to use laptops or tablets to read their ebook in class.
I managed to find some textbooks online too which were great. I copied a sentence from someones textbook,pasted it word for word into google,and found some PDFs of the book suddenly show up. Sometimes it was even the google books free preview of the book. So they might have like 80% of the book shown online for FREE. That method alone saved me who knows how many thousands of dollars over those years.
lol ya, that's another thing I feel like I've overpaid for. I didn't pay more than they're worth, but I feel like they cost so much when alternatives are cheaper(such as not using a textbook at all,buying a previous version,or finding the textbook for free online).
It's just one pathetic scam. I had a professor who intentionally assigned the class work from the textbook, where the numbers/info in the textbook are different on a year to year basis. So if you bought the prior semesters book, you would have wrong info. That was literally the only difference between textbooks between semesters. And some even forbid you from using the ebook version of it, so if you paid for the ebook which was cheaper than the physical copy at the bookstore, you basically wasted your money cause they wouldn't allow people to use laptops or tablets to read their ebook in class.
I managed to find some textbooks online too which were great. I copied a sentence from someones textbook,pasted it word for word into google,and found some PDFs of the book suddenly show up. Sometimes it was even the google books free preview of the book. So they might have like 80% of the book shown online for FREE. That method alone saved me who knows how many thousands of dollars over those years.
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