For the three classes I'm taking this semester, I have to purchase seven required books. The cost adds up quickly with seven books to buy.

  My three classes are English Composition I, Beginning French, and Precalculus.
  English isn't so bad, I only have two books, moderately priced for being books ($50 and $20 new). For Precalculus, I'm only required one book (the main textbook, which is $80 new, pretty typical for a math book), but I think the solution manual would come in handy ($46 new)...
  French is the WORSE. I'm required to have not only the main book ($120 new - which comes with two audio CDs), but also the workbook ($71 new), answer key ($7.65 new), and some kind of CD set, or something ($33.35 new). That adds up to $232 dollars, if I bought it all new. HOLY COW. Even if I bought at the 'used' price, it'd still be about $200.

  So instead of paying a lot of money for brand spanking new books from the school bookstore (or even their used ones), I decided to hit up Amazon.com - and oh, the savings!

  Though they're all used, they're all in pretty good condition. I wouldn't even glance at a listing if it didn't say at least "Used - Very Good" next to it.
  English, instead of costing me up to $70, would only cost me $24.99 plus shipping and handling. Math, only $9.29 - and that's including purchasing a solution manual! Can you believe it?! I'm not sure if I can. ha XD
  French was still going to cost the most (duh - three books and a CD set), but buying through Amazon would only cost me $110.70 + s/h. YESSSS!!!!!!!

  I haven't bought them yet because I need to wait 'til my next paycheck, which is next week... but school is only two-and-a-half weeks away, so I'm going to ask my parents if they would pay for them, seeing as I would pay them back as soon as my check gets deposited. It should work out well.


  I feel so clever.

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  Well, NuTang's finally back up. Horray! I'm glad, because posting at Blogger was rather lonesome. At least I had the xppgy forum to keep me company while NT was down. =)


  So, Libba Bray's third book in her 'Great and Terrible Beauty' series is out now!! It's entitled The Sweet Far Thing. Tomorrow I plan to go to Borders to pick up my copy. I probably won't get to reading it until I've finished re-reading A Great & Terrible Beauty, and Rebel Angels.
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  I am SO excited!! You have no idea.



  It's practially Thursday already, so I'll end this post for now, and come back with how my Christmas went later.
  Happy Post-Holidays! =D

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