Xref: utzoo sci.math:5048 sci.physics:5075 comp.edu:1509 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!cbmvax!vu-vlsi!hvrunix!sbelcas From: sbelcas@hvrunix.UUCP (Sarah Belcastro) Newsgroups: sci.math,sci.physics,comp.edu Subject: Re: How to beat the high cost of text books! Summary: i agree... Message-ID: <486@hvrunix.UUCP> Date: 8 Dec 88 01:24:27 GMT References: <2219@cbnews.ATT.COM> <684@stech.UUCP> <17553@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <1942@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> Organization: Haverford College, Haverford, PA Lines: 11 Yeah, i hardly see how you can blame the student. Some teachers use the texts extensively and others not at all; how was i to know that my Analysis prof. would never use the text and that my Algebra prof. would assign us to read sections not covered in class? We don't have _any_alternatives in our book- store that i've seen. I suppose i could get on a train and go to U Penn if i wanted a copy of Herstein really badly, but it would be a real pain. And that assumes that i know what other book i want. i think i am babbling. --sarah marie belcastro. Bitnet: s_belcastro@hvrford