<p>My college’s library has textbooks on reserve. My plan is to get the syllabus on the first day of class, find the chapters that will be covered/tested on and photocopy them…is that a good idea or too risky. I have to buy a seperate workbook for French and I plan on photocopying what will be needed. If the professor’s do not indicate the chapters that are going to be covered, my next resort would be to tell them about my finanical hardship in covering college expenses. I just hope photocopying doesn’t balance out the cost of purchasing a book. Like I said earlier in a forum my some one from my college bookstore told me to buy a certain textbook. I bought that book on Amazon. Now…I found out that the book was for a internet class not a classroom. What should I do???</p>
<p>Don’t listen to the people in the bookstore. For the fall semester, they reserved books ahead of time and had them in a box to be picked up the day before the semester started. I had to go back twice to get books they left out. Just go to all your classes at least once and see which books are really necessary. Photocopying might work, and maybe you have a good friend who can let you use the text for reading so you wouldn’t have to copy every last page. That could get expensive.</p>
<p>If your college’s library has an interlibrary loan program, you can see if you could order the books. You can get practically anything that has been published, but the length of time you can borrow varies depending on your library and the library from which the loan came. Check it out, you could save more money by utilizing the library’s resources…</p>
<p>Is there a student aid group on campus? Sometimes they will give out money in emergency basis.</p>
<p>I would be very careful about taking out textbooks- especially the lesser used ones as there will be other students thinking the same thing… plan ahead and well! Also, stay aware of how long the books on reserve can be taken out for.</p>
<p>Like frostburg said, try buddying up with a good friend who’s in your class. Sometimes they might be willing to split the ownership of the book since a lot of times college books are useless after the semester’s over.</p>
<p>Another thing to try- e-mail your professors NOW and ask for a list of books so you can start shopping online for cheap deals.</p>
<p>It’s common for books to not be used the next semester? Crap! I bought a book brand new in August and then the bookstore gave me $5 for it at the end of the semester because they aren’t using it again. I was mad, and hoping that wouldn’t happen again. But it does? Grr!!!</p>
<p>Fortunately I contacted the seller from Amazon.com and she agreed to return my money. Wow! Generous people exsist. I H8 my college bookstore…its runned by a herd of idiots!</p>
<p>frostburg: they change editions very often. usually right before you want to sell it back…</p>
<p>Yup! Damn those publishers! Usually textbooks in History and Govt. change often even within a year. Hey frostburg2010 at least you got $5 dollars, I’ve been holding on to a book to sell, went to amazon and found out its worth .64 cents to a dollar max! :(</p>
<p>Yeah, I guess. I got $5 for that one, and then there was another book that they refused to give me anything for because they said they had too many copies of, (I sold books the day before the semester ended, but 4 days after book buy back started) so I had no choice but to bring it home. It was simply for a course to count towards my 120 credits, so it’s not like I can use it for my major, another class, or even give it to someone else to get rid of it. Now it’s under my bed at home collecting dust for the rest of eternity.</p>
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<p>To be fair, new history is happening all the time (take that ***uyama!) and government’s are always dynamic, so it’s necessary there…</p>
<p>But new editions of Romeo and Juliet? Sheesh.</p>
<p>Anyway, if the book is on reserve, then you can go ahead and photocopy it. However, that might add up to quite a bit…</p>
<p>Also, if the books are on reserve, they aren’t allowed to be checked out. Skip the photocopying, save your dimes, and just use them in the library.</p>
<p>KarmaFairy,</p>
<p>Can always just copy it at a photocopier in the library…</p>
<p>umm… maybe im wrong/ naive… but isnt photocoping a whole book/ chapter / wtvr illegal?</p>
<p>The laws on it are fairly vague when it comes to academic purposes. Or so insist my professors who put things on e-reserve.</p>
<p>Granted, grad schools just don’t care. :rolleyes:</p>