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Originally Posted by kindlekitten
have you actually BEEN to college? with very few exceptions textbooks are unique and it is impossible to substitute them. ANY hard science book is normally well over $100. history, religion, philosophy, all of the "ology's" are anywhere from 50 to 300
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In my experience, the actual information is easy to duplicate, but the practice and work information is what you are unable to duplicate. I have two editions of a Calc book, because my school breaks Calculus up into two semesters, and the teachers I had for the fall semester used the older book, where as the teacher I had for the second semester in the spring had already switched over to the brand new just released edition. The Units, Chapters, and Sections were all the same, but the practice work at the end of each section had changed (and were the only changes). I couldn't use the old book, because I had to have the information out of the new edition for homework, and I couldn't sell the old book because no one wanted it because everyone was stuck in that situation. $140 was what each book cost.