<p>You can order the books online from sites like amazon, etc. It’ll be a lot cheaper.</p>
<p>any thoughts on international editions? They say they are the same. Soft cover vs hard cover in some cases, but they sure are a lot less expensive.</p>
<p>They are the same. If you order make sure it ships from the US though, or else it may take a lot longer to reach you.</p>
<p>i dont recommend international edition if you dont plan on keeping the txtbook.</p>
<p>For Chem 2070 and/or Bio 1101, would you recommend getting the international edition? I’m paying for my own books, so I’d really like to save the money if I can, but if it’s gonna be too much of a pain then I’d rather just fork out the money.</p>
<p>And for FWS, do we need to buy all those books? There were like 7 listed for mine, can I like check them out at the library?</p>
<p>no books were listed for me for my FWS. I search by course. Nothing.</p>
<p>The only problem I see with international versions is that you can’t sell them back to the bookstore or to kraftees. So, you will need to plan to keep them or sell them online. Am I missing something else?</p>
<p>As for hassle. My son buys them all the time for his classes at USAFA and they ship via DHL and get there quite quickly. Just be sure you buy from a reputable seller.</p>
<p>For Spanish 1230 (cont spanish), they say this on my booklist, "You are required to purchase !Avance! bundle that contains the text and workbook/lab manual OR the two components separately, not both.</p>
<p>IAVANCE! by Bretz</p>
<p>IAVANCE! (Cuaderno de prac) Bretz</p>
<p>*2 PKG: IAVANCE! & WB/LM Bretz</p>
<p>*2 PKG Sorpgresas w/ CD by Olazagasti-SE</p>
<p>I starred ones I would get, would that be correct? All of them above are required on the booklist.</p>
<p>for physics, both 1112 and 2213, do we need the University Physics 12/E with modern physics or just without that as part of the description?
w/ modern physics is hardback whereas otherwise is paperback?
I think we need the paperback one since that comes up first at the pearsons site when i google the isbn, but I wanted to make sure before I ordered.</p>
<p>EDIT: “with mastering physics” is the same as “w/ access” isn’t it? That would make a LOT of sense…</p>
<p>Don’t forget to rent your textbooks from chegg.com</p>
<p>also, the used physics books on amazon mostly don’t have the “kit”/access codes… is this a dealbreaker or can you use other students’ codes/get to the “access” stuff some other way…?</p>
<p>I don’t think you’ll ever need that.</p>
<p>a) At the end of the year, if the book you are using will be used again next semester, the Cornell Store will offer to buy it back, even if you didn’t buy it from them. I bought my books on amazon used, and on half.com for about 1/2 - 3/4 price, and was able to sell them back to the Cornell Store. I ended up making money on the books I sold back.</p>
<p>b) If it’s an english class, you can just rent them out of the library, although there is a lack of just regular “fiction” type books.</p>
<p>c) No, you don’t need any of the online junk for physics.</p>
<p>i want to get books online from amazon or ebay… but for some of them i don’t know if they come with cd’s or if there is even a cd for that book.</p>
<p>i dont really care about cd’s but i really want to be able to sell it back to cornell store at the end of the semester. Would they deny me because my book doesn’t have a cd or access code when it should have one?</p>
<p>Nope, they don’t even check.</p>
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<p>That Chemistry book says it is only 130 pages. Is that correct?</p>
<p>That’s the right book but it’s not 130 pages.</p>
<p>Under dimensions, it says its 2.4 inches thick, so…</p>
<p>My sister just bought the Petrucci text for her chem class and it’s definitely more than 130 pages :)</p>
<p>All right, so for the FWS, we can get away with not buying the books but just checking them out instead when we need them? Won’t there be high demand for whatever book we’re about to read next in our FWS and there is a good chance that the books will already have been checked out because of a mad rush? Or does the local and cornell libraries carry enough copies so there is probably enough for all?</p>