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[alexseanchai]

Is this an appropriate place to rant about college textbook prices? Particularly when the textbooks are (1) rented (2) ebooks (3) that I already have in dead-tree format?

That's $180 I have no choice but to put on the credit card I just paid $300 to. So much for paying off that card on payday next. (Which happens to be my birthday. Happy fucking birthday, Ellie.)

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[aedifica]

Why *do* you need to? Is it a requirement for the course?

[alexseanchai]

Having access to a digital copy of the book (and the activity books, but them I'm not complaining about as loud because them I didn't already have) is a course requirement. Had I bought the dead-tree book through the campus bookstore instead of through B&N, where it was cheaper, I would have the book key that would allow me access to the digital copy. I swear the universe conspires against me.