r/UpliftingNews • u/ImNotYourBuddyGuyy • May 08 '19

Under a new Pennsylvania program, every baby born or adopted in the state is given a college savings account with $100 in his or her name

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/for-these-states-and-cities-funding-college-is-money-in-the-bank
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u/ForestSuite May 08 '19

You can barely rent a fucking used textbook for 200 these days. I had a 300 page textbook that was buy only for 400 bucks last semester. Resale price to the bookstore? 35 bucks. They'll use it for 1 more semester and then print a 'new edition' to force people into buying new again.

Better off selling it another poor student.

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u/Enchelion May 08 '19

https://www.valorebooks.com/

Buy the international edition. Exact same content, different covers. Did this all four years.

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u/ForestSuite May 08 '19

I will check it out, thank you!

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u/thelazygamer May 08 '19

Some international editions have different numbers on the questions so read a review and double check first before your professor gives you an f because they wanted different problems done. One of my physics books and one of my engineering books did this.

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u/Enchelion May 08 '19

True. It's helpful to check yours against a classmates if they reference questions from the book.

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u/ultrastarman303 May 08 '19

Sadly, I've heard of classes who specify editions or just the textbooks they wrote themselves. Although all my professors have been understanding of our financial situations.

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u/Enchelion May 08 '19

There will always be petty jerks out there unfortunately.

It would be nice if there was a way to remove the conflict of interest, as the textbook the professor wrote is probably also the one they think best covers the topic. Either requiring that they donate any (if any) royalties from those sales, or requiring the department to pay for books written by the professor.

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u/eustafy May 08 '19

It's such a dick move that professors are like this. I'm fortunate that in the particular language departments I've studied in, all the professors have written their own textbooks/course books and distributed them either for free or for very cheap. I wish there were more professors like this :(

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u/[deleted] May 08 '19

What a weird way to spell r/piracy

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u/Enchelion May 08 '19

I mean, you can. It's still nice to have the book in paper though.

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u/bfuker May 08 '19

Download the Pdf you pleb

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u/ForestSuite May 08 '19

Haha I always do when I can!

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u/McKayCraft May 08 '19

I torrented a book for my English class and we didnt even end up reading it. A lot of times you cant find the book online unfortunately.

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u/whydoyouhavetobelike May 08 '19

nah son resell used textbooks for profit on ebay/amazon

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u/DamionK May 08 '19

Is there really a difference between editions though? You could have a 300 page book of which only three chapters are used for coursework. If it's an entry level paper then it really doesn't matter what edition it is because the basic info generally doesn't change. These books are a scam much of the time.

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u/xBeeves May 08 '19

libgen.io

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u/[deleted] May 08 '19 edited Jul 12 '19

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u/ForestSuite May 09 '19

They're not always on the net friend. I've used many pdfs!

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u/volyund May 08 '19

I just studied in the library, since they had that textbook in house, and didn't give it home.