Buying books (Ugh!)

It's time for that tri-annual ritual of college students: book buying. Now, as a theatre major, I've gotten pretty spoiled by book prices, at least compared to majors like math, chemistry, or engineering. This is why I was shocked today to spend $230 on three books. I was expecting my books to cost more this quarter than last quarter simply because I'm taking an English class in Shakespeare. The real shocker for me was that my ACTING book was the most expensive! My Shakespeare book is over 2000 pages, and it cost HALF of what my 350 page acting book cost! My 700 page book cost a QUARTER what that acting book cost! I know it's not page count that goes towards the cost of a book, but it always feels more worthwhile to spend a lot on a HUGE book than to spend a lot on a tiny paperback.