How much are you willing to pay for training materials?

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I usually spend around $25-$40 per book, but I buy like 3-4 books in one shot... so that ends up costing more than $100. Also maybe a little off topic, but I was seriously considering paying $2200 for the vSphere course until I found a cheaper solution.

 

I have paid up to £50 per book before (I once spent over £200 on books in Foyles on Cisco and Microsoft certification studies).

To give you an idea on how much I spend on books.



These are my current physical books, I also have a number of these duplicated in Kindle format as well.
One image is my VMware shelf, the other is my Microsoft and Cisco shelf.

 

I've got 100+ computer books at £25-30 a piece, bought few for as much as £50.

I've paid for professional courses from £1000-£2000.

Paid for webcasts for around £200.

Also took a degree and HND which cost a few £££.

Mostly I now take free online courses.

 

I love books, especially the ones that come with a pdf version. It's even better if the book comes with any software! I've happily paid up to £45 for books.

When I was at uni I started doing the CCNA in a classroom (it was done through the university so it was broken into four sections), and I paid £150 for each part of the course. It was well worth the money because I had enough of an understanding of the networking that I could ask the tutors questions and properly explore the subject. Some people in that class had no prior knowledge of networking, and I don't think they got anything out of the class at all as they were too busy trying to figure out the basics. I would happily pay much more than that for a classroom course if I really needed to know a subject in depth, but generally books work for me.

I've spent around £40 on Groupon for an online course. I mostly bought it to find out what online training would be like.I found that it was better than books, but looking at the full price that a lot of courses are sold for, I'm not sure that I would ever pay that.