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[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Ypsi,

Wherever you land next, you can just get the current edition and tell the bookstore to keep them and just use the same one for the next twenty years.  So long as your class enrollment doesn't go up, you could do it indefinately (or until all of the answers have been written in).

[Mr. Ypsi]

Ypsi,

Wherever you land next, you can just get the current edition and tell the bookstore to keep them and just use the same one for the next twenty years.  So long as your class enrollment doesn't go up, you could do it indefinately (or until all of the answers have been written in).

Not quite that simple - SOME students do keep their books.  Finding used copies of a book only one edition out is easy - it gets tougher if it is 'obsolete' by two or three editions.

[diehardfan]

 So long as your class enrollment doesn't go up, you could do it indefinately

SOME students do keep their books

Am I really that unusual for keeping my books? 

[Mr. Ypsi]

So long as your class enrollment doesn't go up, you could do it indefinately

SOME students do keep their books

Am I really that unusual for keeping my books? 

I've never really monitored how common it is, but I always advise at least students planning on grad school to keep all books in their major and, regardless of major, to hang on to their statistics and research methods books.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I kept most any book I thought would be useful at some point in life.  So all of those from my major and the occassional one from electives.  Frankly a lot of textbooks that I was assigned were awful.

[diehardfan]

Frankly a lot of textbooks that I was assigned were awful.

Ah yes, but that was more true of the books in my major than the ones outside of it. 

[Pat Coleman]

Am I really that unusual for keeping my books? 

I kept some of mine until I had to move two or three times within the first couple years after graduation. I didn't sell most of mine back because it was too much of a PITA.

[diehardfan]

on a more board related topic, congrats to david on his 100th karma point! I wonder how he got it!

[Gregory Sager]

 So long as your class enrollment doesn't go up, you could do it indefinately

SOME students do keep their books

Am I really that unusual for keeping my books? 

I've kept all of mine, both undergrad and grad -- and my friends have hated me for it every time that they've helped me move.

[diehardfan]

Ah yes, greg, this is one of those ways we're similar. Fun stuff.   

Too bad me keeping all my text books didn't give me your vocabulary. 

[David Collinge]

I not only did not keep my books when I was an undergrad, often I did not even buy them in the first place.   Education was not a very high priority for me in college, a fact my GPA accurately (and permanently) reflects.   

I have kept some of the law school casebooks, however.   

[Wydown Blvd.]

nice post David Collinge...lol

i have kept every textbook since 9th grade (yeah i sort of took them instead of returning them, but always got out of the fine). so im at about 25 txtbks or so....my goal is to build a personal library.

[Knightstalker]

I kept my music theory books, my anthropology texts, my harbrace manual and various compilations of english lit books.  The best was when a professor made you buy their own books.

[David Collinge]

I will always be thankful that I had Zenos Hawkinson for history at North Park - he assigned some of the most interesting books I've ever read on US and European History - and none of them were textbooks - they are always modern non-fiction.

MW

Among the books I had assigned for Criminal Law were The Stranger by Albert Camus, and Aeschylus' play The Eumenides.  I kept them; I did not keep the Criminal Law casebook.

[Gregory Sager]

I kept most any book I thought would be useful at some point in life.  So all of those from my major and the occassional one from electives.  Frankly a lot of textbooks that I was assigned were awful.

I will always be thankful that I had Zenos Hawkinson for history at North Park - he assigned some of the most interesting books I've ever read on US and European History - and none of them were textbooks - they are always modern non-fiction.

Zenos wasn't above assigning fiction in his classes as well. I still have a copy of Mary Renault's novel The King Must Die that Zenos assigned for Early Mediterranean History.