College Books

• BlueDevil11

  

  Where is the best/cheapest place to get books for college?
• ts1227

  

  Anywhere but the bookstore. Use the bookstore sites to find out which books you need, then buy on Amazon, Half, etc.
  
  Also resell them on these sites after the quarter
• rugbywrestler

  Amazon. See if it's ok to use an older edition too, easily cuts the price in half
• like_that

  

  Chegg.com
• JerseyBuck

  

  Amazon. Price from the bookstore is cut in half when I went through them.
• ts1227

  

  I've actually sold a few books on Amazon for more than I had bought them for on there before the quarter.
• TBone14

  

  like_that;861266 wrote:Chegg.com

  
  Agreed. Chegg is great.
• dlazz

  ts1227;861235 wrote:Anywhere but the bookstore. Use the bookstore sites to find out which books you need, then buy on Amazon, Half, etc.
  
  Also resell them on these sites after the quarter

  
  Wrong. Buy them from Half/Amazon and then sell them back to the bookstore. Often times, you'll make money on the deal. On the times the bookstore tries to give you $3.00 for a book, THEN sell it on Half/Amazon.
• I Wear Pants

  http://www.bigwords.com/
  
  Compares all the book places including Amazon and Chegg and such.
  
  Works for buying and selling too.
• ontheriv2000

  Look for online at the schools websites for available books that you could buy from students that took the class already. the downside is that you will buy a book and then the professor will change the edition. It seems to be happening a lot lately. Depending on your education path, you might be able to find used books pretty easily. Check the local bookstores as well!
• chicago510

  

  Amazon.com
  
  I have the credit card for rewards and the Student Prime account. Register with your .edu address and get free 2 day shipping on everything.
  
  Then sell your books back after the quarter
• ohiobucks1

  

  I agree with chegg.com
• gerb131

  

  ecampus is pretty good or used to be.
• Heelz

  

  amazon. I love the look on the faces at the people at the bookstore when you tell them your buying and selling shit on the internetz.
• dlazz

  I always used to go to the bookstore and punch the ISBN numbers for the books I needed into my phone, then go back to my dorm and buy them online.
  
  I'd just punch the isbn number into my phone as a call, attempt to call it, then hang up...then it'd be in my recent calls list.
  
  That was back before I had my smartphone, though.
• friendfromlowry

  More often then not I don't even buy the book. I wasted so much money on college textbooks that I never even used. I would recommend to incoming freshmen to wait on buying books. In my experience, a lot of the basic general education courses (Psych, Sociology, English) use the books more so as supplemental than an actual necessity. A lot of science books especially you can get away with using older editions. What the fuck makes the 2011 9th edition geology textbook better than the 2009 8th edition, besides the newer one being $150 more expensive. Oh, and just because the first day of class, the professor holds up the book and says "This is the textbook we'll use, and you will need it" -- doesn't make it actually true.
• Scarlet_Buckeye

  

  like_that;861266 wrote:Chegg.com

  
  This.
• tcarrier32

  

  amazon