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| Have you ever had a time in your life when you just didn't find reading interesting? I'm not talking about your entire life, for you people who don't like to read at all (: I mean, for true book lovers, has this ever happened? What book (if any) pulled you out of your reading slump?
About three years ago I became distressed to find that I did not enjoy reading as I once had. I'd find books that were supposed to be good, try to read them, but just couldn't get into it. They all seemed the same. Fortunately, at the suggestion of an online book review, I started reading "Sir Apropos of Nothing," a fun fantasy book with lots of "laugh out loud" humor. Since then I haven't had any periods in my life where I did not enjoy reading, even if there were times when I didn't have time to read for pleasure (when can anyone find time to read anything but school materials in college?) | |
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| I had to purchase my daughters school books online last week. The website where I purchased them asked for either credit card information or bank information.Unfortunately, I don't have room on my credit card. I happened to have enough money in my bank account so I opted for the direct withdrawal option.I have them my account information.The books cost $309.00 and change.Guess what.They charged my bank account FOUR TIMES!!I have had to send them an e-mail telling them of the situation and requesting that they correct it.I hope it doesn't take to long, because I gotta pay my bills!Do you purchase things online?
Do you feel safe doing it?
Have you ever had a similar problem? | |
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| I've been presented with a reasonable dilemma when it comes to my grad school courses. When I was an undergrad, I usually sold my books back to the bookstore or to another student or even online. That wasn't a problem, I doubt I'll ever need 75% of the knowledge in those books (communications/journalism major). I kept a few history books cause I'm a history nerd... but none of the others. Now that I am in grad school, all the books have relevance to what I am studying. It's getting to be space consuming to keep all these books. I want to scan them into PDFs and save them on an external hard drive or something to save space. Do you keep your books or try to sell them back? Sometimes, the bookstore won't even offer 50% of the original price back, or the book becomes replaced by a new edition so it can't be bought back. What do you do with the books then? | |
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| I just recently bought my books for the college courses I'm taking this fall semester and I find it outrageous how expensive these books are! Some of the books I had to buy cost about half the price of the actual course. Anyone else feel the same? Better yet, does anyone know where I could possibly buy books for next semester a lot cheaper? | |
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| I am grade three now and have a lot of old textbooks that I won't use them again,so I want to sell them to the freshman and that will be useful to them.Meanwhile,I can get some money and they also can save some money to buy new books.Will you buy my old textbooks with low price if you were the freshman? | |
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| I'm starting this discussion because of recent events - in our textbooks of Etics there is an explanation that only heterosexual relationships can exist.There's nothing mentioned for homosexuals.Do you think children should learn respect to them as normal human beigns? It's not that I'm against them, but what example do they give to the little ones? | |
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| Everytime I try to sell back by textbooks at the end of the semester, I usually take them to the campus bookstore and recieve not even half of the money I paid and as college student, I need all the money I can get. Just yesterday I decided to try something different and put a book up on Amazon.com, it sold within a half an hour for a substantial amount of money (more than it would have sold for at the bookstore definitely). I also saw that half.com or ebay were recommended places to sell textbooks. Where do you sell back your textbooks to get the most money for them? | |
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| So, this is my third year buying textbooks. The first year, I knew the books would be expensive, but I had no idea just how expensive those books would be. After the first semester, I got a better feel for the price of books and how much I would actually get back from the book price. After that, I tried searching online for places I could buy my books from for a cheaper price, and places that I could sell my books too so I could get a better price. That seemed to work, however recently another frustrating thing appeared in the case of buying college textbooks.Buying a book for a class that is supposed to be required, but in the end, it's not. So, I'm now left with a book that I'm hoping I can return for a full refund. So here's my question fellow students, what is the most frustrating thing you've dealt with buying and selling textbooks. Not being able to see them back? Getting a price you feel is unjustified? Or something else? | |
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| how frustrating can it be when you are cashtrapped? tried so many things to earn money for textbooks all to no avail,can anyone help me in getting typing jobs for students like essays, projects, paper works for little stippends infact you may be the one to name the price. serious help needed. | |
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| What is the point of increasing your payout amount? Why increase it and make it more difficult to reach each month, isn't it better to have it low so you at least can get the payout every month? Or am I missing something, does increasing the payout give other advantages I am not aware of? | |
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