I am an undergrad at UC Berkeley majoring in History. Berkeley has one of the biggest libraries in the world, especially with regards to history stuff (newspaper, records, documents, 2000 years old rare texts, etc), basically everything. Which means it is also going to have at least 1 copy of almost any book that can be required in a history class.

I am in a reading/research seminar where we read 1 book per week and not touch that book ever again. Part of the reason is we are learning the historiography of a subject, or how a subject, like the Civil Rights Movement, is being viewed/interpreted/written by multiple different historians. One may focus on MLK, the other focus on inter-racial cooperation, and another focus on the conflicts within the African American community, etc. So we just need to know big arguments.

So since we don't really need to dig deep in a book and since Berkeley''s 20 libraries have almost all the books I need, I only bought like 2 books out of the 12 required for that class. I am not hoarding the books, I just get them a week before I need them, and it is really easy for others to recall. But do you think my professor/classmates will think bad of me knowing that I have a habit of not buy books? Like I cheated the system?