[Jay Chou]

do you keep certain textbooks? or do you sell them all?

lets say if your major was biology, would you keep your bio/chem/ochem textbooks?
i thought it might be a good idea to keep them for future reference....i dunno
are these textbooks even helpful for preparing the MCAT/PCAT/DAT?

[lidge_fan]

i thought it might be a good idea to keep them for future reference

yeah, i keep all of my finance / accounting books too

if i sell them, i get like 1/10 of the original price and most of the books i bought were new when i bought them

it's an excellent idea to keep your books cuz i think you might need them in the future

[sakixbabie]

I'm a Pharm. Sci. major so I kept my bio and chem books (and cuz the chem books are notes the professor puts together which means no sell back).

I think it's a good idea to keep the books that are from courses of your major.

[s13]

so far i've only kept my calculus, chem, and physics books..but only so that i can put them on a shelf and look somewhat smarter

[suki_*]

I only keep the ones that i am majoring in.. so yeah i'd sell all the other ones hehe

[Trungy]

I've kept all of my electronic books, but I'm also planning to upgrade my library with more difficult books (and also those textbooks that are good for reference). I also replaced my calculus and physics books with other calculus and physics textbooks, so it is sort of an upgrade in itself.

I kept a sociology textbook, only because I liked reading it. Otherwise, I sell pretty much everything.

[loO4la]

i graduated w/ bio degree...will be starting nursing school this fall...

plan on keeping all my nursing books...

i still have all my bio, chem, med books...sold all others on ebay.

[melkimx]

i kinda regret selling some of my books -- even if i don't think i'll be using them again, i got them brand-new and sold them for peanuts. like, i bought and sold a hardcover complete edition of shakespeare that i now think would be pretty cool to have. i did keep my orgo books and tests though. not that i think i'll ever be looking up chemical reactions, but i can flip through them and say, "whoa, i used to do this stuff!" and i kept all my psych textbooks, because i like them.

[jaesun]

i keep my econ books because its my major, and my language textbooks.

[redbean]

^I also keep my language books, and some psychology books before I changed my major. I'm in the East Asian specialist program, and I try to sell most of my books because they're mainly stories/literature.

[MaryMagdalin]

no i sell it in a heartbeat woot!!!!!
and buy more books with it....

that is of course unless its my major course then i keep the book

[cherri_blossom]

well.....i've sold most of mine....but some of my textbooks no1 ended up buying them....so they're still hanging around....not by choice....it's coz no1 wants them.... -_____-;;

however, i've kept some books back....but they're not exactly textbooks.....they're just set readings from some of my english courses....eg, the tenant of wildfell hall by anne bronte (i love that book! ^__^)

[mintfresh]

I keep all my books...even the ones that aren't related to my studying fields.

[boka]

i never bought the textbooks in the first place - since i was in the library a fair bit, i got by by borrowing them from the high-use section and reading/understanding the material ahead of schedule.

owning the prescribed texts would definitely be handy if you dont need the cash - there'll often be times when you'll be required to draw upon assumed prior knowledge etc.

[heineken.]

I'm a bio major so I keep my bio books, but I also keep all my science related books too (MCAT).

[Mo0nfairy]

Yup! Keep books from my major b/c you'll never know when you'll need it again.

[sunshine4ever]

yeah, i keep books that i like or i think that these books will give me good references about the subject....

[novemberbaby]

I've kept all of my textbooks, regardless of the subject. I got too attached to them so I refused to sell them back. Weird but true.

[ronmexico]

I only kept a few books that I thought I might be able to use again (though I usually wasn't) or that I thought were interesting. I sold the vast majority of them back, because they take up too much room and are a pain to ship or store.

[sunnyday]

i keep the ones that will be good reference or are interesting, but i still sell textbooks that i used for my major, especially if the price i get back from selling is pretty good.