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kdog3683
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
United States916 Posts
August 27 2008 08:40 GMT
#1
Are expensive...

Even when bought 2nd hand from the University Bookstore is still expensive.

Where should I get mine?

I have a few ideas.

1. Ask my friend who will be a sophomore to find people who have taken the classes I'm taking and sell him the books for cheap and then I pay him.

2. Not buy one and leech off people once school starts?
3. Photocopy the pages that I need everyday from somebody else lol?

This is gay about college. There should be a book rental service.



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TeNken.1
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States226 Posts
August 27 2008 08:43 GMT
#2
Check them out at the library, or hit up half.com..
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Navane
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Netherlands2748 Posts
August 27 2008 09:02 GMT
#3
4) set up a book rental service
zgl
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
United States1055 Posts
August 27 2008 09:19 GMT
#4
download from emule
alffla
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Hong Kong20321 Posts
August 27 2008 09:54 GMT
#5
take photos of every page.

save photocopy money
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5226 Posts
August 27 2008 09:55 GMT
#6
http://www.comics.com/comics/fminus/archive/fminus-20080822.html
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24701 Posts
August 27 2008 10:27 GMT
#7
Check amazon and other online retailers for a discount also.

I think every college is different, but at mine you could buy used for 75% and sell back for 50%. For a 100 dollar book, you'd have to pay 25 for the year :D.
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pangshai
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
Chinatown5333 Posts
August 27 2008 12:13 GMT
#8
if you have friends from other countries, you might want to enquire with them how much it is there. i think asian countries tend to have cheaper books? to put things into perspective, i searched up a book that i have on amazon.com. it was selling for 61$ there. i bought the same book in singapore for only 27$.
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Dknight
Profile Blog Joined April 2005
United States5223 Posts
August 27 2008 12:25 GMT
#9
Amazon and Half.com are the best sites that usually ship within a week. Bookstores are such ripoffs.
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Mickey
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
United States2606 Posts
August 27 2008 15:11 GMT
#10

http://www.abebooks.com/
JWD
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States12607 Posts
August 27 2008 15:26 GMT
#11
Use half.com. University bookstores will rip you a new asshole. I save about 70-80% off the bookstore price by buying at half.com.
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nA.Inky
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
United States794 Posts
August 27 2008 15:28 GMT
#12
You're right, KDog. It is a travesty. I have a class this semester. The book costs 147 new at the bookstore. If I buy it used at the bookstore, it is 112. The book isn't even a big book.

I never buy books from the bookstore. I buy them used online. I also try to go an edition or two back. Here's an example of what has happened using this method:

Abnormal Psychology class text book, new from bookstore: 120+ Used from bookstore:100.
Abnormal Psych text book used online in previous edition: *5 dollars INCLUDING SHIPPING*

The book, as far as I can tell, was hardly any different from the latest edition.

You can read about college textbook prices. It's all a scam. They release new editions every year and "bundle" the books with crap that no one needs or uses, like CDs and such. This allows them to keep the prices high, since it effectively reduces the supply of books (new edition is usually required by the class). This is just pure greedy capitalism. Too, the college bookstores are essentially a local monopoly, so they charge monopoly prices for the books.

Never buy new textbooks, and never buy books from your bookstore. Find out what books you need a week or two in advance, and check out fetchbook (I don't know the exact address, so google it - it will tell you the lowest prices you can get on a given book online at various websites).

The best way to beat the greedy bastards is by not buying from them.
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Equinox_kr
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States7395 Posts
August 27 2008 15:35 GMT
#13
Yea, I just bought a Chem textbook for 215 =_=

OD expensive T_T
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JeeJee
Profile Blog Joined July 2003
Canada5652 Posts
August 27 2008 15:45 GMT
#14
half.com or option 2 (borrow from others)
i bought books for my first year and i feel a little silly now
you can always arrange to borrow a book from someone because people have classes when you want to study or they're doing something else etc etc. it also forces you to keep on top of your work because come crunch time, they'll be needing the book as well

also, depending on your library, you could borrow a book for the entire term. the late fees are usually nothing compared to actually buying the book (like $30 for 3 months). lately i found that this has been changing though =(
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Hypnosis
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States2061 Posts
August 27 2008 21:25 GMT
#15
On August 28 2008 00:35 Equinox_kr wrote:
Yea, I just bought a Chem textbook for 215 =_=

OD expensive T_T

what??? i got one for like 30 bucks and it seems new.
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QuanticHawk
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States32075 Posts
August 27 2008 21:30 GMT
#16
On August 28 2008 00:28 nA.Inky wrote:
You're right, KDog. It is a travesty. I have a class this semester. The book costs 147 new at the bookstore. If I buy it used at the bookstore, it is 112. The book isn't even a big book.

I never buy books from the bookstore. I buy them used online. I also try to go an edition or two back. Here's an example of what has happened using this method:

Abnormal Psychology class text book, new from bookstore: 120+ Used from bookstore:100.
Abnormal Psych text book used online in previous edition: *5 dollars INCLUDING SHIPPING*

The book, as far as I can tell, was hardly any different from the latest edition.

You can read about college textbook prices. It's all a scam. They release new editions every year and "bundle" the books with crap that no one needs or uses, like CDs and such. This allows them to keep the prices high, since it effectively reduces the supply of books (new edition is usually required by the class). This is just pure greedy capitalism. Too, the college bookstores are essentially a local monopoly, so they charge monopoly prices for the books.

Never buy new textbooks, and never buy books from your bookstore. Find out what books you need a week or two in advance, and check out fetchbook (I don't know the exact address, so google it - it will tell you the lowest prices you can get on a given book online at various websites).

The best way to beat the greedy bastards is by not buying from them.


This post is 100% accurate.

The only thing I can really add is go to the first class or two without the book. See if your teacher even plans on using it. I've had plenty of guys say straight up, they don't, despite it being mandated by the dept. Others say they do, and you realize real fast you won't, or maybe you'll use it once.

Buy online, ask other students. And, most of all, don't sell back to those greedy cocksuckers unless totally desperate. They will give you 15$ if you're lucky on 140$ book, and that shit will be back on the shelves for $100.
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kdog3683
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
United States916 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-08-27 21:35:00
August 27 2008 21:32 GMT
#17
On August 28 2008 00:45 JeeJee wrote:
half.com or option 2 (borrow from others)
i bought books for my first year and i feel a little silly now
you can always arrange to borrow a book from someone because people have classes when you want to study or they're doing something else etc etc. it also forces you to keep on top of your work because come crunch time, they'll be needing the book as well

also, depending on your library, you could borrow a book for the entire term. the late fees are usually nothing compared to actually buying the book (like $30 for 3 months). lately i found that this has been changing though =(


This was what I was thinking.

Set up with a group of friends a way to alternate our books. (Unless you're a freak and carry all your books with you 24/7) This way 1 book, can serve 3-4 people.

What I may also do is buy the book. (return it 2 hours later of course) Scan all the pages -_- ( take forever maybe ) and make a "e-book". Get a few people to do this, and then we share it.

On August 28 2008 06:30 Hawk wrote:
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On August 28 2008 00:28 nA.Inky wrote:
You're right, KDog. It is a travesty. I have a class this semester. The book costs 147 new at the bookstore. If I buy it used at the bookstore, it is 112. The book isn't even a big book.

I never buy books from the bookstore. I buy them used online. I also try to go an edition or two back. Here's an example of what has happened using this method:

Abnormal Psychology class text book, new from bookstore: 120+ Used from bookstore:100.
Abnormal Psych text book used online in previous edition: *5 dollars INCLUDING SHIPPING*

The book, as far as I can tell, was hardly any different from the latest edition.

You can read about college textbook prices. It's all a scam. They release new editions every year and "bundle" the books with crap that no one needs or uses, like CDs and such. This allows them to keep the prices high, since it effectively reduces the supply of books (new edition is usually required by the class). This is just pure greedy capitalism. Too, the college bookstores are essentially a local monopoly, so they charge monopoly prices for the books.

Never buy new textbooks, and never buy books from your bookstore. Find out what books you need a week or two in advance, and check out fetchbook (I don't know the exact address, so google it - it will tell you the lowest prices you can get on a given book online at various websites).

The best way to beat the greedy bastards is by not buying from them.


This post is 100% accurate.

The only thing I can really add is go to the first class or two without the book. See if your teacher even plans on using it. I've had plenty of guys say straight up, they don't, despite it being mandated by the dept. Others say they do, and you realize real fast you won't, or maybe you'll use it once.

Buy online, ask other students. And, most of all, don't sell back to those greedy cocksuckers unless totally desperate. They will give you 15$ if you're lucky on 140$ book, and that shit will be back on the shelves for $100.


I agree. In HS, we were supposed to always brg our chem/physics texts each day. We only used them rarely and most of the time for HW assignments.
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