Today, I bought my very first college textbook. I received a stack of hole-punched papers. My $195 "book" isn’t even bound together. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I bought a textbook for my college class. Not only is the £150 book only sold by our teacher, it turned out to be a piece of shit that he obviously wrote, printed, and stapled together at home. When I went to the faculty about it, I was told it's all perfectly legal, and to drop it. FML
Today, my first day of college, the textbooks I ordered a month in advance still haven't arrived. My first class of the semester is College Readiness. FML
Today, I started at a new college. I bought my textbooks and went to my first class only to find out that they changed my schedule without telling me. I'd already opened the book. I could not get $200 back. FML
Today, I went to the local used books store to sell all my college textbooks. I spent several hundred dollars on them in total. I ended up walking out of the shop a pathetic $3.50 richer. FML
Today, I received a package that I thought contained a textbook for law school, for which I paid $130 used. Instead, I received a paperback novel titled "The Nosy Neighbor" by Fern Michaels. My semester starts next week. FML
Today, I had to listen to fellow classmates whine about selling one of their many houses, while I can barely afford to pay for a $100 textbook. FML
Today, the first day of school, I went to the book store to purchase my textbooks. Not only did I wait for 30 minutes, but they didn’t even have my books in stock. I was advised to visit another campus 45 minutes away. They didn’t have it either. I have assignments due already. FML
Today, I photocopied several hundred pages of my school's textbook because I didn't want to buy it. My school later says to just buy it and it will be reimbursed. FML
Today, after waiting two weeks for an email with my online textbook access code, it still hadn't arrived in time for my quiz tomorrow, so I ended up spending most of my money on the expensive physical copy. Not long after I got back home, the email finally arrived. FML
Today, I lost a book. I'd used my credit card as a bookmark. FML
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Top comments
TxKitten79 10
Yep. welcome to college. Take some advice... never buy new if you can help it. Google "buy used textbooks." You can save 50% or more on a lot of books by not buying new from the bookstore.
smartjaguargurl 17
Oh honey just wait. Welcome to college
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mekiswrite 21
One of my classes had that too. It was the only one I bought new because I didn't trust the used version not to be missing pages
kenken5 16
It’s just a loose leaf book. I would assume it would be specified when you ordered as either soft cover, hard cover, or loose leaf. It’s really not that uncommon. You just buy a $2 binder and you’ll be all set!
bluhbluhbluh 14
Try to find an older student willing to sell their books for cheaper. Also, Amazon sometimes has much cheaper second hand books.
Sarah_360767614 8
Yeah? That’s called loose leaf? It’s a thing..?
tckm1699 7
Always check amazon, just put the ISBN number in the search bar and most will be there. Amazon rental is great. There was one book I had to get last semester that would’ve been $160 to rent because the school store only had it new ($60 to rent used if I remember correctly) and amazon had it to rent for $25. The book came in a few days and the return date was about 2 weeks after the semester ended. My plan was to ship to back before I left the dorm but in the chaos of finals and packing it was easier to send it back once I got home. When you’re ready to return it you just go on amazon and they’ll give you a packing slip to use. You just need to get a box or a packing envelope, tape the packing slip on, and bring it to the post office.
Celeste Terese Stratos 4
done this before and somehow my rentals were lost between the post office and Amazon. About $300 dollars and a couple months later, the books found their way to Amazon. Still out the money though..
MitiMiki 16
Higher education has turned into nothing more than a cash grab. I wish I could tell you this was unusual, but it's not. Just wait until you get a professor that makes you buy the book they wrote and see how violated you feel...