<p>I've used Chegg in the past and it works well. Though obviously wish to save as much money as I can. </p>
<p>Would UCLA allow me to check out textbooks for free or anything similar???</p>
<p>google for ebooks
amazon
international edition from half.com, remember to go to library to correct the problem number b4 doing homework</p>
<p>Some semesters I spend $0 on books, never needed Chegg</p>
<p>craigslist is awesome.<br>
ebooks(A friend of mine sometimes downloads them off torrents… yeah, a friend) for sure and just put it into your kindle or whatever and you don’t have to carry all these textbooks around.
for online code books, just buy used or ebook textbooks and buy the online access codes individually.</p>
<p>Amazon and ebay are always my last resorts.</p>
<p>Just stuff I do, have gone a few semesters where I didn’t pay a thing. But I notice recently these classes that require access codes which it whack.</p>
<p>If I can find ePub or PDF files of books, it may be enough for me to score an iPad for the hell of it. . . . though in all realism may just put them on my laptop. :-p</p>
<p>If you are going to look online I would suggest using a good textbook price comparison service. There are now over a dozen sites renting textbooks, about the same number offering digital textbooks and about 30 sites offering used textbooks. I found that the cheapest source shift has inventory levels change. The cheapest site today when not even offer the book tomorrow. You can Google “textbook price comparison” for a list of sites.</p>
<p>I prefer to buy off of amazon marketplace and then sell back to amazon for credit. Every semester I just use the credit to buy my new books and rarely have to pay more. I have tried the PDF/Torrent thing but I can never find the textbooks I need :/</p>
<p>Coursesmart is having more and more books. I got my textbooks on there, online, available for 180 days for 40 bucks each I think. I just print out the pages. Buy a laser printer and a pack of 500 sheets of paper is about 5-10 bucks depending on quality.</p>
<p>i use <a href=“http://www.postyourbook.com%5B/url%5D”>www.postyourbook.com</a> - a site for us to buy and sell our textbooks to each other 
works great for me, and I think they’re expanding pretty quickly. two thumbs up</p>