Do you buy new books every semester? Rent? Or do ebook-textbooks?

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Buy the basics (for me as a med fag: anatomy, physiology...) and rent those who are useful only to pass your exams.

>>8438334
I only buy books with 100% refund return policies. I take pictures of every single page of the book and return the book.

>>8438334
>buying books
You realize genlib exists right?

>>8438355
Genlib?
Gonna have to google this

>>8438334
bookzz.org

also, 'course reserves' - professors put books on reserve in the departmental libraries so that students can check them out for limited amounts of time (often a few hours a day per person with the condition that you can't take the book out of the building)

if you go to a shit community college, course reserves may not be available

>>8438334
Uni libraries are your friend.
Get an earlier edition if the required one is withdrawn.
Haven't bought a single book this semester thank fuck.

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>>8438354
Thief.

>>8438334
Ebooks and print books from the library.

>>8438334
I buy them used if I need the whole book

>>8438334
I've only gone through 2 semesters. Professors always recommend textbooks but I never get then. They always bring problems to class themselves and teach from their mind.

When the professors literally write down every single theorem on the board your notebook becomes a textbook if you can also prove them without too much trouble. When I can't prove something I get fucked because a good proof is nowhere to be found on the internet if the theorem is too obscure.

I guess that will bring me trouble when I get to topology and analysis but I wouldn't mind buying textbooks for that.

>>8438408
Oh, nevermind. Here the math department has a private library only for students and in the morning you can take textbooks for a class. So when I get to topology I will just take the proofs from the textbooks. Ez pz.

>>8438334
I literally download all of them. Worst case scenario I go to the library and scan the books I can't find.

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>>8438334

I buy new books every months. Not only science book, but must have like " How to win friends and influence people " or " The 4 hour week"

I buy my science books because that's what I'm majoring in and I want them for my personal collection. The rest are pirated or rented. I did get a book scholarship though so it's no money out of my pocket.

>>8438334
>study in 3rd world uni
>teachers scan the books themselves and send via emails

after freshman year I never bought another textbook that homework questions didn't come directly out of (mostly just math classes). I miss maybe 1 or 2 questions on each test and save shitload of money.

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>>8438334
>Do you buy new books every semester?
Lmao no.
I copied every single one of them in the local copy shop,they have very nice business going and have every book from my uni and keep stock so I get it fast,cheap and easy.

>>8438354
>I spend more on data storage than I would have spent on textbooks in the first place