It’s horrible giving students the option for returning their books at the end of a semester for some monetary return less of course, being a student you are perpetually in need of money but by the time the semester ends you fall in love with your books! Their your friends, they hold in their pages so many things that in some way or another have become special to you, and yet you know you could very much use the money to help pay for the next semester. Then you spend weeks beating yourself up over it but can never actually bring yourself to return the books. It’s like some kind of evil plot, a cruel torture devised by the book store. The damnable bastards they do it on purpose posting their bright yellow signs on ever corner, post, wall and tree, that you can’t miss them even if you tried “return your books” “return your books we know college is expensive we can help.” god damn them god damn them to hell :mad:

You can download books or get them from the library.

The thing that pisses ME off is how little they pay.

The bookstores do tend to rip people off. But I have no aversion to returning books I no longer need. Like my art history book, for a fine-arts class I had to take. I'd rather sell my books off-campus, because I can get more money for them. But when it comes to an art history book, or my Unix book that I used only twice for the first week of class, I wouldn't consider them "my friends" and I wouldn't mind parting with them for monetary compensation.

Edit: But hey, I know the feeling of not being able to part with a book. I have a few books that I am keeping for a long time.

The thing that pisses ME off is how little they pay.

The campus bookstore at the University of Texas pays back 50 percent of the original price for books that teachers will use again in the next semester. I think that is pretty good, especially considering the amount of effort that is required to sell my books to them when the semester is over. I could probably make 60 percent or a little more on eBay, but I would rather spend ten minutes at the bookstore and be done with it.

lol, our book store at Oregon State, gives you only about 30% usualy, and they claim that they are a non profit organization, haha, selling the used books at a slightly reduced cost(maby 10%). I love my books and totaly agree with you dont want to sell them. I do no think that I will sell them back, because i will use them if I indede decide to take the Mcats (and they are very informational and interesting :) )

lol, our book store at Oregon State, gives you only about 30% usualy, and they claim that they are a non profit organization, haha, selling the used books at a slightly reduced cost(maby 10%). I love my books and totaly agree with you dont want to sell them. I do no think that I will sell them back, because i will use them if I indede decide to take the Mcats (and they are very informational and interesting :) )

I have a pretty good habit of keeping the interesting books from any classes that I take in my official undergraduate fields of study (i.e., psychology and sociology) and personal interests (i.e., philosophy, politics, and pop culture). However, I have no problem selling back the books for differential calculus, astronomy, English, and other required classes if I am not going to open them again.