College students: Do you read the textbook?

[acidicality]

Yes. I own all the textbooks for all the classes I've taken...sometimes, the book is really useful (engineers might know, but Beer-Johnston for thewin

), but sometimes it's crap. This quarter...

Vibrations- crappy ++* book. no examples.
Materials- the prof wrote it....so you know it's horrible. typos, and it's way too broad.
Fluids- it's aight but the professor assigns hw from OUTSIDE the book

...seriously wth is that?
Signals/Systems- not a bad book.

 

[wj4]

I only read it when I need to, ie to write a book report, or a portion of the test is going to derive from it. In classes where professors say "tests willbe strictly from lectures", I won't even buy the text book unless I may need it down in my career.

 

[jepeh21]

this is the first time i've been forced to read the textbook because pretty much everything from the test comes from the book, i'm taking nursing btw,when i was in business management, i was able to get decent grades without really reading the book, but now its a totally different ballgame.

 

[eight2one]

im contemplating on whether getting mine.....

 

[doctorshoes]

I always read the textbook.

 

[mideastbeast]

After the disaster that was fall 2008, hell yeah I read it.

 

[rsdplaya]

no, i don't. i really do need to start at least skimming my accounting books though before i fall too far behind.

 

[brooklynnyc3000]

Most of the time.