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Kindle ladies
Does anyone have a copy of "a farewell to arms" in their Kindle library that you would be willing to laon to my co-workers daughter to read for her english class?
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No the school doesn't provide copies and I totally remember that any book we read for English class the school system provided for us. They have to either buy it or borrow it from the library. The library copies are all checked out. She even checked the library system's collection of e-books to see if she could borrow it for her Kindle but it was not available. I know my co-worker had the same issue last year with getting books for whatever english class her daughter was taking.
It doesn't look like the book is available for the kindle unless I'm looking wrong.
You can usually find books like that for a dollar or two on amazon or through half.com though.
Unless we are both looking at the wrong thing we were able to find the kindle edition for $12.99 but my co-worker wanted to see if she could find it for less than that. The used options appear to be the cliff notes and not the actual book. She is going to check a few used book stores in town and also the goodwill book store.
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Maybe it's another FL-NJ difference, but we always had to buy our books. You'd know a month or so ahead of time so you had plenty of time to buy it.
Like LB mentioned, half.com is usually a great way to go. http://product.half.ebay.com/_W0QQprZ15283 Media mail shipping can take a while, though, so I always foudn one that offered expedited.
we always had to provide our own books as well. i thought maybe it was a public vs private school thing, but maybe it is a fl (state/countyt) thing after all.
With how much school funding is being cut all around, I don't think it's too much to ask for parents to buy a few very common, used paperbacks. We're not talking about textbooks (at least I'm not). Get a list at the beginning of the semester (what? four books?) and buy them all online for a dollar and pay the $3 or $4 media mail shipping one time for all four. You're out for under ten bucks.
To the same point, couldn't the school do the same? Buy the books at one point and then they give them out and take them back every year. The initial cost is minimal and if the students don't return the books, then they have to pay for them. I remember being really shocked when we had to get our own books here in FL. It was very strange to me. While I agree that it is a minimal cost, you just never know what kind of a hardship that is for someone. I agree that it's not a big deal, but I do think it's something the school should pay for.
But it wouldn't be that minimal for schools. They couldn't buy them off of half.com or similar because or red tape and purchase orders, etc. and would have to buy them for retail price from Scholastic or whatever retailer or wholesaler the school goes through. So they would pay maybe $10 a paperback versus $1. So say $10 a book for 550 students (the amount in my senior class) and they read ten books a year. That's $55k (or two teachers salaries). And that's just for start up assuming the books will never change or need to be replaced. The burden is much smaller when assumed by the individual parents.
ETA: Having the school buy the books also dictates that each class will read the exact same thing with no variation and allows for no discretion from the teacher. I don't know how strict curriculum is now, but I know each teacher's class read different things in my school.
That said, I do think they could implement a program where the school could buy back the books from the students for some non-monetary reward or fundraiser or something. Or even just buy a few copies to have on hand to lend to students under financial hardship (I think this is what my school did).
You definitely make valid points. I think your last point is the key though. There should be some kind of system in place to make sure everyone gets the books and it's not an issue.
This is what I was told:
"The books you used were from the school. usually classroom sets purshased by the school board or the PTA. Each school district is different. Right now I know that if a teacher needs a set of books for a class and she does not have enough , all the librarians will get an e mail for interlibrary loans. There are 177 schools in Duval County. Books from other schools are checked out over the internet and sent by school mail where they are needed.
I can easily see a teacher requesting students to buy a paperback but not a hardback title."
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