So I know "bookstore books" are expensive, and because of this you may be wondering why the hell I would make such an insane title. Please allow me to explain.
Okay, so today I got a whole bunch of coding books from my teacher. She was cleaning out her office so it could be used by someone else for "Entrepreneur Day" for Phi Beta Lambda - by the way, I'm enrolled in that. So anyway, she was cleaning out her office and she had old books on coding that she didn't want, so I got to take them all home. I just scored a lot of books for no charge. She's also going to clean off her bookshelf and re-organize that. I'm going to help her and in return, she will give me top billing in book selection.
It doesn't stop there. Okay, so the school library is around to loan out books, magazines, laptops, and other various media for no charge to students. They recently updated their stock yet again, and have a cart full of free books that anybody can just take home. I haven't closely looked at the books, but there's a myriad of subjects, I believe. It's just whatever isn't current enough or whatever.
Granted, the books aren't "free" free. I mean, there's the tuition charges. However, we're a community college, so the cost is relatively low. Even then, the return on my investment is absolutely amazing, and these are just the tangible benefits!