<p>Whats a good cheap website or place to get MIT textbooks?</p>
<p>Amazon.com marketplace is amazing, as is half.com. Personally, I purchase my textbooks from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Myanmar, or Vietnam, where they cost like $5 (+maybe another $5-10 for shipping) for new books (typically poorer print quality, but identical content). I suggest looking through websites for retailers in these countries.</p>
<p>Whatever you do, DO NOT purchase anything from the Coop. Those books get so ridiculously overpriced that, well, you ridicule them. If you want to buy anything from the Coop, ever, just walk down the street towards Legal Seafood, hang a right when you pass it, and then walk the thirty seconds to Quantumbooks, which has all your technical books for 10%-40% cheaper than the Coop.</p>
<p>^Seconded. I always bought from Amazon Marketplace, then sold the books there at the end of the semester. Works out nicely.</p>
<p>Particularly for freshman classes, you might canvass the upperclassmen around you to see if anybody has books they want to sell. You might also consider sharing a book with a friend or two of yours who is taking the same class you are, particularly if you expect to be pset buddies anyway.</p>
<p>APO BookEx. You can even pay in TechCash if you're into that sort of thing.</p>
<p><a href="http://apo.mit.edu/bookex/%5B/url%5D">http://apo.mit.edu/bookex/</a></p>