And yup you're going to spend $150 on a textbook for a class you don't care about! Turns out, it's not unreasonable for some four year college students to spend close to $500 a year on textbooks.

Students now seem increasingly incapable of reading whole books, a problem professors say is becoming the norm, even at some of the nation's most elite colleges. While college students today ...

who enrolled at College of the Canyons in 2019 and was initially shocked at the price of textbooks. With the cost of each book ranging from $150 to $250, a semester’s worth of textbooks could be as ...