I feel that having to buy college books/manuals is a big rip off! Other Universities allow students to rent the books they need for their classes and return them after the semester is over (Riverfalls). I don't know why we can't do that too. I spent hundreds of dollars on books and half of them I didn't even use and will never use again. I know that we are able to sell them back, but we only get about 50% or less of our money back, and some of the books you can't even sell back like "course packets" and manuals. Sometimes they tell you "we are not using these books next semester" because they always get new versions which are still similar to the older ones. I also wonder how the go about pricing these packets and manuals. How can a few printed stories and articles cost $40, and I barely even used it. I think that if people want to buy the books because they want to keep them, they should. But there should also be an option of renting the books for the semester, for those who don't want to spend hundreds of dollars on books they barely used for a couple months.