Excluding textbooks for classes, I bought this for ~$300 (several several years ago as a special treat)
Most of my collection is thrifted/bought from garage sales (for a quarter to a dollar usually) but I do have a handful of nicer ones.
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$200+ on a textbook (many years ago, even) which netted me $25 when I sold it back to the college. What a racket.
I have a large box of technical books. C, C++, Java, Linux admin, UNIX, etc. My local bookstore no longer takes them. What do I do with them? Book burning party? :-/
Mine are helping hold up a shelf somewhere.
loadbearing book.
I had to buy this giant Economics textbook, only for the teacher to create video lessons per chapter about which parts from it can be scrapped. Over three quarters ended up scrapped.
A racket indeed.