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Bought mine today from the Co-op bookstore. Ringed up at a low, low $673 for a large number of required books for math (1), bio (2), law (A BAZILLION).

How much do you guys have to spend on textbook purchases this semester?
 
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How come you bought them from co-op? The amount of money you save buying from textbook exchange, book depository etc. can be pretty significant.
 

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Bought both:

Essentials of Econometrics
Intermediate Microeconomics

For $146.98 from BookDepository.co.uk
 

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Probably $110 for my Commerce textbook, but I'll be avoiding buying it if I can.

Then plays every week and a half for about $20 until the end of session.
 

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about tree fiddy, op.

seriously tho, use this site: booko.com.au. The best site EVER!!!
 

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Go second hand or try the interweb.... got me a 8th edition of psychology themes and variation.
 
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Probably like $250 last year, will buy from book depository instead of co op next year though.
 

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For maths: prob ~$20 on course notes

For finance: over $200 (will try to avoid) .... damn commerce courses
 

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In my second semester I got a $200 book out of the library for the whole semester - only copy too!
 

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Bought mine today from the Co-op bookstore. Ringed up at a low, low $973 for a large number of required books for math (1), bio (2), law (A BAZILLION).

How much do you guys have to spend on textbook purchases this semester?
Holy sh.. almost $1000 just for one semester, that's INSANE! Why buy new books when you could just get used ones in excellent condition for half the price.

I'm planning to spend around $300 this sem. Really can't afford to go much higher, coz I don't get paid Youth Allowance, which sucks.
 

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First sem I bought everything brand new and regreted it. Spent like $600.

Mostly been buying second hand since. MUCH cheaper.

Books are a massive rort.
 

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how do we know which textbooks we're meant to have? (i'm going to usyd) i haven't even thought about it D:
 

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how do we know which textbooks we're meant to have? (i'm going to usyd) i haven't even thought about it D:
I don't think we need to worry about it yet, since I'm told that we'd better buy them after knowing what's actually required after first few lectures.
I'll probably buy them 2nd hand somewhere.
 

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I don't think we need to worry about it yet, since I'm told that we'd better buy them after knowing what's actually required after first few lectures.
I'll probably buy them 2nd hand somewhere.
^ Yes.

Anyways, if I was to buy mine for first semester from UNSW's Bookshop thing - $403.98.
 

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NewiJapper - LAWS1001A and LAWS1003A?

Im probably going to buy my textbooks for those subjects within the next few days.. How many textbooks do we need for them? On the co-op website, it says we need 2 for torts, but the textbooks for 1001A have not been listed.. Just interested to see how much reading Im in for over the next semester haha.
 

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only bought 1 textbook in first year (it was new), and it was not worth it.
I've just been borrowing other textbooks if i need (except sometimes gets recalled, grr).
and for 1st year maths courses at unsw dont need textbooks just get the course notes so thats good.
 

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