just bought college textbooks

[phflack]

both require textbook :(

one of the questions I always ask on the first day is "how required is the textbook"
because if it's just for reading, then it's mostly pointless (for CS at least)
if it's for problems in the book, then it's just obnoxious (should give the problems on the website/whatever, not the numbers of which problems to do)

either way can probably find the textbooks online/in a library

[Ad Bot]

[Nonnel]

Textbooks are a major loving scam. Bet you it costs under a dollar to produce one.

[Trogtor]

Textbooks are a major loving scam. Bet you it costs under a dollar to produce one.

i understand this way an exaggeration but you have to remember how god dang expensive ink is

[Daswiruch]

Bet you it costs under a dollar to produce one.

paper costs, color ink costs, binding costs, manufacturing costs, marketing costs, work costs, shipping costs, tax???

[|Orange|]

i understand this way an exaggeration but you have to remember how god dang expensive ink is

yeah squid farming is incredibly dangerous, that's why ink is so expensive

[The Resonte!]

yeah squid farming is incredibly dangerous, that's why ink is so expensive

milking those squids is a tough job

[Verification]

yeah squid farming is incredibly dangerous, that's why ink is so expensive

splatoon is only a slight exageration

[Nonnel]

i understand this way an exaggeration but you have to remember how god dang expensive ink is

retail cost of ink is also way inflated. think of those plastic pens which you can get 20 of for a dollar. maybe not under a dollar but pretty goddamn cheap compared to how much they sell for.

[|Orange|]

retail cost of ink is also way inflated. think of those plastic pens which you can get 20 of for a dollar. maybe not under a dollar but pretty goddamn cheap compared to how much they sell for.

I think there's a difference in types of ink, but then you have to add the cost of how it's packaged.

[Nonnel]

Looked into it and yeah they're different types of ink
Important part, though, is retail vs wholesale price.

[Mr Queeba]

yeah squid farming is incredibly dangerous, that's why ink is so expensive

milking those squids is a tough job

O_O

[Alkatjo]

We're this far in to the internet's history that there are bound to be copies of your books online in some form somewhere, and if not, it's not hard to borrow a book and scan all the pages and make your own "book" online.

[Mr.Noßody]

.PDFs

[Blockomaniac]

my textbook has an ebook version online but its like $100

y tho

[Zloff]

gotta love shelling out hundreds for outdated information