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"Recommended" Textbooks?

schmoey
edited July 2008 in General
So under the course outlines for my MATH and ENGL, there's a "recommended" textbook for each. Is it all that crucial to go buy'em?

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  • nicole
    edited July 2008
    I've never touched my recommended books.
  • Agentbob
    edited July 2008
    No, stay away from it. I have never touched any of my recommended books. Huge waste of money and hard to sell back.
  • primexx
    edited July 2008
    It depends, for some classes the recommended book actually helps, for others it doesn't, and for some other classes you don't even need the required book.
  • collegestudent
    edited July 2008
    i never buy a recommended text, if i find i need it i just borrow it from the library
  • SpectreFire
    edited July 2008
    Yeah, the wordings for textbooks are a bit cryptic.

    Required = Recommended
    Recommended = Waste of money
  • Kingsley
    edited July 2008
    Don't buy 'em! I never do.
  • randomuser
    edited July 2008
    a lot of the time you can even borrow your required textbooks from the library, or buy them cheaper in book stores
  • Student0667
    edited July 2008
    Don't bother with those "recommended" textbooks. I mean, if some people lack the will power to read even the "required" texts, what makes you think that people will have the will power to read the "recommended" texts?

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