Textbooks to keep?

[gnomie]

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Hello all,

I am currently sitting on a giant pile of textbooks that I officially do not need anymore (YAY!) but I was wondering if it would be helpful to keep any of them for vet school?

I could definitely use the money to sell them back, but I am more than happy to keep anything that might be useful!

I have:
Physics
Organic Chemistry
Organic Lab
Biology
Biochemistry
Genetics

I was thinking of possibly keeping Bio, Biochem and Genetics.

Any thoughts?
Thanks!

 

[SocialStigma]

Don't need any of those imo, especially not a biology textbook since you won't be taking general bio courses anymore in vet school.

Disclaimer: I'm not a textbook learner at all. I rarely bought textbooks in undergrad (and when I did they just sat on my shelf collecting dust). In vet school so far I've only bought 2 textbooks (Pasquini for anatomy and a histology textbook).

 

[katryn]

Your basic science texts will really not be all that useful. I still have one of my old biology books (only because it's more of a keepsake at this point, I know, its weird), and I haven't used it at all. But, as SocialStigma said, I am also not a text book learner. I have a handful of the required texts for vet classes, but they mostly gather dust, unless I need to look something back up after the course is over.

 

[August West]

Hello all,

I am currently sitting on a giant pile of textbooks that I officially do not need anymore (YAY!) but I was wondering if it would be helpful to keep any of them for vet school?

I could definitely use the money to sell them back, but I am more than happy to keep anything that might be useful!

I have:
Physics
Organic Chemistry
Organic Lab
Biology
Biochemistry
Genetics

I was thinking of possibly keeping Bio, Biochem and Genetics.

Any thoughts?
Thanks!

Good luck trying to sell any of those back. The textbook market is a huge racket!! 😡

 

[gnomie]

Good luck trying to sell any of those back. The textbook market is a huge racket!! 😡

The textbook market is absolutely a huge racket!
I'm not planning on getting rich off of them, but they are all the latest edition so my bookstore will buy them back.
My favorite was having to buy a new ochem lab manual (because the new edition had just come out) for $250, only to find that it was only about an inch think and entirely in black and white.😡

I'm not a big textbook reader either, I just didn't know if there was anything I might need to refer back to, but I guess not!

Thanks!

 

[Packen]

I used to rely heavily on text books, but since getting to vet school, the only one I refer to a lot is Pasquini anatomy. Otherwise, Wiki is free😛

 

[mooshagen]

I like this thread idea a lot! Thanks, current vet students, for your insight!

 

[jmo1012]

yeah i'd dump em all (the exception maybe being biochem if you're attending a vet school that has a biochem course in the curriculum and your textbook was any good).

here, notes are sufficient and if you need a bit extra, Google is your friend (or VIN depending on what it is 😀)

 

[Minnerbelle]

I use my ug physiology and immuno texts a lot, but otherwise, nada. I'd say sell them while you can still get pocket cash out of them

 

[RxyBrtn]

What about A&P textbooks and dissection guides? I know the school I'm going to uses the Phys of Reproduction book that I bought for the undergrad repro class I took. That and the A&P were the only ones I was considering keeping. And how much have you referred back to notes you took in undergrad?

 

[mooshagen]

Can we all agree that I can sell my O chem books?!

 

[Emiloo4]

Can we all agree that I can sell my O chem books?!

SELL THOSE B*TCHES!!!!👍

 

[Lissarae06]

I haven't used a single book from undergrad, and very few from vet school. As for dissection guides, the ones we used 1st year were so much more in depth than my undergrad ones so you probably won't use them. Hope this helps!

 

[StartingoverVet]

FWIW: the recommended text for our biochem class was the same one used in my undergrad biochem classes. I never opened it at vet school though.

So it COULD be useful for biochem. Of course, those textbooks change like every 2 years b/c it is such a vibrant subject, so if you took it a couple of years ago, fuggedaboutit.

 

[LetItSnow]

Sell everything.

Maybe, maybe keep your biochem book... er... nah. Sell it.

I have a neatly organized row of my undergrad books. Never touched. Lots of dust. I barely touch my vet school books, much less the undergrad stuff.

 

[mooshagen]

SELL THOSE B*TCHES!!!!👍

I love this enthusiasm. It's pretty much what I'm going to say when the man at the store tells me "25 dollars for this one. :/ Is that okay?"

 

[jmo1012]

whats your dissection guide called? that would tell us real quickly if you should keep it 🙂

 

[UAphenix]

Me personally, I hang on to all the texts I buy. The resale value is terrible especially when they come out with new editions. I figured if I get even a couple more uses out of them, that will easily cover the $10-15 I would get for them. I'm slowly switching over to buying new texts electronically, Pageburst is awesome for elsevier, its really nice to search all your books at once for key terms.

 

[PppermintTwist]

I used to rely heavily on text books, but since getting to vet school, the only one I refer to a lot is Pasquini anatomy. Otherwise, Wiki is free😛

I lost my pasquini in a move 🙁

 

[sumstorm]

The only text book worth keeping is if you had a text you personally used extensively for a particular class and would be able to quickly and efficiently look up info that you are weak on. The only text books I have pulled out since vet school was a statistics book (for one epi project and my research), an animal behavior text (to find a review of a specific study for a paper), and a genetics book (again, for a specific project.) I could have found the same info elsewhere, but I knew those text books backwards and forwards, so locating it was efficient. The way I use textbooks now, very few would actually be useful to me as an efficient resource. Internet searches and library searches are just more efficient.