<p>Anyone know when they post what books are needed for the Fall term? I hope it's not too late because I want to buy them off ebay or amazon to save some money.</p>
<p>E-mail your professor.</p>
<p>if you don't email your professor, when can u find out about the booklist?</p>
<p>Well BigJ will be a junior, so I'd do what he says, but to answer you.. on Testudo under schedule of classes, when you are viewing a class, there are tabs at the top that say seats, books, and exams. If you click on books it says the list isn't available yet.</p>
<p>If you don't e-mail your professor, or if you have STAFF listed as your professor, you can call the Department via UMD's search. They should be able to provide you with the general/exact booklist, depending on the class.</p>
<p>Testudo,
Thanks for the support, but I'm wrong just as much as the next guy. I just try to help out as much as I can. Although e-mailing the prof. is the best way to get a booklist.</p>
<p>also sometimes if you email a prof, they´ll give you the ISBN number so you can try to order it used from amazon/b&n instead of paying the bookstore price.</p>
<p>(edit) the online booklist on testudo won´t give you the ISBN number, just the author and title.</p>
<p>Sometimes bought my hs books used online (thank you private school) - ISBN is important too - because each edition of the book will have its own ISBN - with just the title - you may be getting an earlier or later edition - so the ISBN lets you key in on the right book</p>
<p>What I am going to do, which was suggested to me by a guy at work who went to UMD, is go to College Park in the middle of August when the booklist is released and what not, and go to the bookstore. I am going to check out each book and right down the ISBN. Then I will buy them online.</p>
<p>UPDATE: Books for many classes have been listed in Testudo. I guess i am still going to have to email professors to make sure I get the right ISBN or edition.</p>
<p>Also, do yourself a favor and talk to the professors about the Edition.</p>
<p>Some professors will actually use an older Edition that you can get used for $20, versus a newer edition that may be $70-80 used and over $100 new.</p>
<p>Nevermind, got the wrong edition. Oops. Amazon is $10 cheaper</p>
<p>hahah I love amazon used books! I am going to purchase 3 used and 3 new books off of amazon for the amazing low price of... 78.25 TOTAL. That's all my books for the semester save my criminal justice books which I may have to bite the bullet and pay over $80 for because I can't find it online. It is written by the prof. I am about to pull the trigger on all of them but I am awaiting responses from two professors. This is fantastic.</p>
<p>hey so u pretty much just email ur profs and be like can u give me the ISBN number to your booklist? like..idk how to go about saying it. help, anyone??</p>
<p>I just researched all my books. All but two were very clearcut, i.e. novels or textbooks that have only one edition. My math textbook and british lit books had multiple editions, so all I did was say hello, I am in your _____ class and I am wondering about _____ book.</p>
<p>oh okay great..thanks!</p>
<p>So I just bought 5 of my 8 books for $91 shipped off of Amazon Marketplace. Saved me $30, off of UBS's used prices, and I haven't even bought my most expensive book. That is why I am posting. I emailed my prof (I think I got the right address, but I am not positive) and he is yet to respond. There is a 10th edition, which seems to be the most popular edition, but then an 11th edition was released December 2005. Keep in mind David Lay, a calc prof at UMD, is one of the authors of the textbook. Does anyone have any insight to which edition would be used this semester?</p>
<p>I am thinking 11th especially because Lay co-authored it, and even though he isn't my prof, the book list from his classes and mine are identical. Argh.</p>
<p>Ah, okay, update. I just decided to give it one more check on Amazon and I discovered something. On Testudo it says Calculus & It's Applications (PCKG). I simply ignored the package before. Well, now I found a book by the same authors, called Calculus & It's Applications & Visual Calculus, but in the description it says package edition. Damn this sucks. I wonder if I call them would they tell me the ISBN?</p>
<p>If it is the package edition, I won't save any money by ordering it online... that sucks!</p>
<p>Don't the large freshman classes all use the same core text? I think they all have a common final - so it seems that theywould have same core text - perhaps you could e-mail one of the other profs who are teaching the class and ask in that context.</p>
<p>I figured it out. Don't email the professor. You won't get a response. Haha. Go to the bookstores site and click contact us, then choose textbook dept., and they will answer in one day. The package for MATH220 is custom and it can't really be found online at all.</p>
<p>okay so...what about novels? does it realllyy matter what edition/publisher u get? cuz every book looks different but they all contain the same stuff, so u just buy the cheapest kind out? or do u really have to find out the ISBN number to get the exact copy your professor wants?</p>