Ahh! Textbooks

<p>Okay, so basically I've spent like $600 on textbooks, but I still need to be another one, Calculus: Graphical, Numerical, Algebraic, but all of them are over $100, which I can't afford.... Can someone recommend me a good textbook site that sells it cheaper/trade? I desperately need to find one before school starts! Thanks!</p>

<p>Your school doesn't give you books?</p>

<p>ebay
i bet they have good prices</p>

<p>or amazon.</p>

<p>(I have to buy me texts too...)</p>

<p>It also helps if you're willing to tolerate an older edition. Usually older editions of math books are less watered-down than newer ones (though you might have problems if the teacher assigns you homework problems from the book).</p>

<p>Calculus:</a> Graphical, Numerical, Algebraic starting from $8.00.</p>

<p>BUMP!</p>

<p>Thanks for the advice!!! I need the 2006 AP edition, which is different from the older version, and ebay doesn't have it cheap (neither does amazon: $117), so....</p>

<p>Check the google product search area (nee froogle) <a href="http://www.google.com/prdhp%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.google.com/prdhp&lt;/a> and you'll possibly find other sellers. Some of these are the people who advertise on amazon/ebay anyway, so you might not be able to find anything new.</p>

<p>I am in the process of looking for my kids' textbooks now, and the pickings seem to be a lot slimmer than in previous years. For example, the chem book I checked the used prices last June and found several options around $50, now the cheapest used option is through the official bookseller (varsity) which never happens for me. I had waited because they were changing the course and the teachers are never explicit on if they will use the same book until the list comes out. </p>

<p>It is possible that there might be more postings as people sell their old books to buy new ones, but I wouldn't count on that.</p>

<p>Yeah, I know jackief. When summer just started,I found that book for $1 on ebay, but now as school starts to approach, there are more bidders and higher prices. It's too bad I can't use older versions... </p>

<p>CC should make a textbook trading forum or something, I bet that would get a lot of people.</p>

<p>armando: most private schools require you to buy your own textbooks. to the op i use half.com. my books originally totaled $800 but using half.com now saved me $500.</p>

<p>That sucks that you have to buy books.</p>

<p>yes i agree buying books sucks!! umm at my school they give them to you!!</p>

<p>Half.com has cheap books.</p>

<p>I got my French book for $7 from there(including shipping) in good condition.</p>

<p>I'm taking a college French course online because my school doesn't offer AP French.</p>

<p>Well, i can't find this book anywhere that's cheap, so I guess I'll just have to buy it for $240 (at school bookstore, which inflates like crazy. ONE PENCIL is $3.50!!!)</p>

<p>Bump...</p>

<p>Wow, I actually couldn't imagine having to buy textbooks for high school :) My school checks the textbooks out to us for the school year.</p>

<p>Amazon is a rip-off is your books are recent (as in published in '06 or '07).
Try eBay or Barnes and Nobles...</p>

<p>Do you need an actual copy of the book when you go to school? If you do, can you just borrow a friend's copy when you go to that class? </p>

<p>If you do that, you can try to find these books in PDF form from bittorrent. That's what I would do...</p>