College books

[yennamah]

So as everyone know college books are expensive, so i figured i would start a thread about how people save money on books.

i personally like to use this Compare prices on new and used books and college textbooks pretty much find the Isbn of the book you need and search on that site and it look at pretty much every bookstore you need, it even includes the rental places like cheggs.

[Shadow]

Another good website for searching is AbeBooks Official Site - New & Used Books, New & Used Textbooks, Rare & Out of Print Books. My teacher told my class that a book that normally goes for around $18 for a new copy is $1 on that site.

[Food]

Amazon

[putis]

Originally Posted by Buck Futter

Amazon

, most of the time.

[Creative Zune]

I dont buy books. Most of them are on reserve in my school library. Besides , the only I use my books for is Hw.

[yennamah]

Amazon is alright, a little pricy(?) compared to when you can just rent them now these days. I actually got a 90 dollar book for 16 brand new off ebay. So you can always check on ebay.

[Red Sky]

Another thing you can try, which is probably not entirely legal (but it's college, and textbooks are robbery in and of themselves), is to obtain Adobe Acrobat, get the nook software (which is free), and then get trials of the ebooks you need. Read them in the nook software, taking a screenshot and saving each page as an image (you can use scripts for this) and then using Acrobat to make a .pdf from the images. You can then proceed to scan the images for text so they are searchable as text. It's a time consuming process, but it will save a good bit of money.

[Leeroy Jenkins]

My school rents books out. i pay 70 dollars max for an infinite amount of books. BEEEEYEEEAAAAHH!!!

[Nanaki]

Amazon I've found usually has the best prices as a lot of textbook sites appear on there through the community sellers. There's also a good number of college students who sell their books right on there so you avoid the store markup

[OfficerHalf]

CHEGG! Chegg is the best thing ever for textbooks.
Chegg.com: Rent Textbooks. Cheap Textbook Rentals for College

[Beausiph]

Well, if you are a US citizen. You can get money back for your books just by putting them on your taxes.(This also applies to supplies)
Save your receipts

[yennamah]

Originally Posted by Beausiph

Well, if you are a US citizen. You can get money back for your books just by putting them on your taxes.(This also applies to supplies)
Save your receipts

What about like books you buy online though?

[Beausiph]

Originally Posted by yennamah

What about like books you buy online though?

You Usually receive a receipt, just make sure to print it.

[Elektrolik]

BIGWORDS.com | Buy Textbooks | Sell Textbooks | Used College Textbooks | New College Textbooks | Textbook Price Comparison | Cheap Textbooks | Cheapest Textbooks | Compare Textbook Prices | Textbook Buyback | Textbook Price Bot | New and Used Music | helped me out quite a bit this semester. Also, Amazon has this thing for students: Amazon Student You get free two-day shipping for a year. You just have to sign up with a .edu email address and tell them your major.