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I buy mine from my class facebook group. They're usually cheaper than any websites.

[quote=Masinko]"A C Programming book in my book store was $190, and online I found it for $25. "[/quote]

How in the....

What.

Go to www.bigwords.com there you put in the book name, isbn, etc, and finds the cheapest online for you. It's cool, and books are usually found free online, but unless its a campus made book you are screwed.

I use abebooks.com, super cheap, but they usually get you either the international and/or paperback edition. I prefer paperback, and usually the international is the exact same...

@Schokoshake
You're lucky you still have friends that are still in college...my upperclassmen friends all grad this year =( and they already sold their books. *sigh*

Luckily, I'm friends with a lot of upperclassmen who are in my major, so they all have the textbooks I would need. For other general classes, if it's like a small book, I'll buy it from the bookstore. If it's something big like a textbook, I scrounge around the internet or look for friends who have taken the course.

Can't you just find people who are selling their textbooks because they completed the class already?

you can find quite a few textbooks pdfs online for free if you invest the time to look. i've saved over $1000 this way. otherwise, you can try looking on a facebook free&for sale page for your college, buy an older or international version, or rent one.

I highly recommend slug books.

@icephoenix21
yea i know, i had a math teacher who didnt touch the book required for that class instead he gave us worksheets of the lesson we have to learn. i saved $150 while my other classmates lol was like well then... that's why ill only tear the plastic off if only we guarantee need to use it.

It's frustrating when you buy a book for the course and the professor barely touches it.

also a lot of the times you can use a different version because the material in the book is about the same.

I'll check out Chegg and that textbooksyder site. thanks guys!

Always avoid the campus bookstores.

I hate eTextbooks so I need paper copies which is always more expensive. I either find the books from people on Facebook or rent them from Amazon. Sometimes you have to buy the new version to get a code for online homework that you can't purchase separately.

$400 this upcoming semester to rent three books and buy a fourth. :I

Lmao amazon is pretty bad. I just searched up the books i needed to my classes all the books cost $20 more than my uh bookstore.

I buy primarily from Amazon.com (new or used) or from local college bookstores (new, used, or rentals).

I rarely buy/rent anything from the school's bookstore, unless I absolutely have to. The prices there are always highest.

Tbh, I usually check to see if I can find them online or see if I can borrow one off a friend who took the class.

If can't get it that way, I recommend [url=http://www.textbookspyder.com/]this website[/url]. Don't buy from your bookstore, they're overpriced. A C Programming book in my book store was $190, and online I found it for $25. Though the bookstore was selling the 8th edition and I bought the 4th edition, but I know the C language hasn't changed that much in those years, so it ended up fine that I had an older version of the book.

Amazon, people from college campus, or any online site specifically for college books.
The CHEAPEST option is to find several e-book versions and use those. (They're free 99% of the time)