Some students are already back at school while others are busy enjoying the last few days of their summer holidays. However, book lovers and people who are serious about education are about to face an annual dilemma: what do you do about the insane price of textbooks?
Knowledge might be power and learning is loads of fun, but when books cost more than your rent or the amount of money you spend on food each week, there’s a big problem, as people on Twitter are finding out after social media user Mr. Higgins started a viral thread on the topic. And the problem gets bigger when you realize that you’ll most likely use a particular book just for one class and that’s it.
To get you in the right mood for the new school year, have a read through people’s complaints about the ridiculous prices of textbooks on Twitter. Upvote your fave tweets and let us know how you solved the textbook issue in school, dear Pandas! To learn about the alternatives to buying new expensive textbooks, Bored Panda reached out to Richard Davies from AbeBooks.com. Scroll down for his insights.
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This is a summary of college only using two pictures; expensive as hell.
That’s my Sociology “book”. In fact what it is is a piece of paper with codes written on it to allow me to access an electronic version of a book. I was told by my professor that I could not buy any other paperback version, or use another code, so I was left with no option other than buying a piece of paper for over $200. Best part about all this is my professor wrote the books; there’s something hilariously sadistic about that. So I pretty much doled out $200 for a current edition of an online textbook that is no different than an older, paperback edition of the same book for $5; yeah, I checked. My mistake for listening to my professor.
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