Buying books

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Los Angeles
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kinda...i have 6 books (so far). UCLA store wants $253 new; $179 used. i'm getting them for about $180 ish (all new except student solution manual for calc).</p>

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<p>depending on ur class textbooks may be expensive, especially for science majors... 150 bucks a pop vs 120 used. i hardly see a price dent in used ones (which is why i see no point in getting them used from UCLA). OR u get them online NEW for $80 a pop. i think humanities major books are cheaper cuz i bought 3 all NEW books from UCLA online store for my HIst GE course and total came to 80 bucks. </p>

<p>then again Science books are often used for the next class in that series such as the Steward math book. so if u divide 150 bucks by the 4 quarters u will use it then it amounts to only 38 bucks. not bad compared to 80 bucks for my Hist Class. OR IF U BUY IT NEW ONLINE THEN ITS 80/4 = 20 BUCKS :D:D:D:D:D</p>

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<p>My books, provided that I buy them online early as I plan (NTS- must do this week), will cost all of $70, maybe $80. Seriously.</p>

<p>And yeah, the ISBN trick is awesome. Hope it helped.</p>

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<p>But getting them used has an advantage, in that you might get a person's highlighted notes, ect? I'd like to have that "upper hand" on the material, even if only a little bit.</p>

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<p>used might also be missing CDs. and bad highlighted notes are distracting :)</p>

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<p>just checking:
Can you buy the books directly from the store rather than online so you can look at the ones the store has available (used)?</p>

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<p>i dont know... i think they put them in a room or something and not really show it out for display?</p>

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<p>They leave the used books on the shelves, right next to the new books.</p>

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<p>the ISBN view source hack no longer works. It seems that they removed it in the view page source information. I swear that the isbn information was there a while ago when I last checked for the ISBN.</p>

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<p>Really? the ISBN is still there in the view source for me</p>

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<p>still there for me...</p>

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<p>is it normal to have 6 required books for one class?!</p>

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<p>No, six books is abnormal... I can't imagine reading six books in a quarter - not even my English Comp 3 class had that many. That's a book every two weeks. Yargh.</p>

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<p>I have 7 books for my Classics class. :(</p>

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<p>I think I win: 11 books for Chicano/a Studies 10A and probably around 8-10 for English 4W.</p>

<p>But does anyone know when it's likely that the book lists for all classes will be posted? So far only one of mine is posted, and I wanted to get this book mess done and dealt with as soon as possible...</p>

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<p>BenedictChan, I found the ISBN for all of my books on the View Source page at about the last third of the page, right or a little bit after:</p>

<p>// There used to be code here that hid a couple of items for nav2,3,4</p>

<p>and the line the ISBN is at starts with:</p>

<p><INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="sku-new-1" VALUE=</p>

<p>This is how it was for all of my books, changed from how <em>allie</em>'s ambiguousness said to do it.</p>

<p>I guess you can ignore this if you've already found it, but there wasn't really an answer posted after. :)</p>

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<p>thanks littleol'me! :)</p>

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<p>Instead of scrolling down and sifting through all the codes, you can Ctrl+F, type "PREFER USED" and it'll take you there</p>

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<p>arg i bought the wrong math textbook! i got the 900 page calc book instead of the 1500 page one. this was b4 i knew the ISBN trick. lol guess ill have to sell back and buy again..</p>

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arg i bought the wrong math textbook! i got the 900 page calc book instead of the 1500 page one. this was b4 i knew the ISBN trick. lol guess ill have to sell back and buy again..

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<p>I just found out from your post that I bought the wrong book too. Dammit, I was so happy that I got it for such a good price brand new.</p>