<p>How much- on average- would it cost someone to buy new books?</p>
<p>Used?</p>
<p>What else might we be looking at it terms of extra costs here and there?</p>
<p>What kind of supplies do we neeed? (paper, pens, etc?)</p>
<p>books depend on your classes. other cost usually heavily dependent on food.
yea, u need to bring school supplies according to your need.</p>
<p>What's the best place to buy books?</p>
<p>Used, mailed from Amazon, like I usually do?</p>
<p>^^^ yeah, i want to know, too. because i just read on bearfacts (or something) about how you can order your books for berkeley online. and i was wondering if you could get all the book name and ISBN info there and then just search for the book cheaper on amazon (like i ususally do, too).</p>
<p>help would be appreciated!</p>
<p>I found that Neds listed the books with accurate enough titles, including edition numbers, to let me look them up on Amazon. Further, Neds has pictures of the covers of most which serves as a cross check to the book. </p>
<p>Neither the campus store nor Neds lists ISBNs directly.</p>
<p>buy books from half.com (ebay affiliate for used/new books) anywhere besides the cal student store gives better prices. If you know a friend who works for the student store ask them to buy books for you to use an employee's discount (15%)</p>
<p>The only reliable way to get the ISBN is to go into the bookstore and look at the books themselves. The online ordering just puts in a reservation for the books in the classes you've registered for, and they are (unsurprisingly) coy about giving you more than the title and, if you're lucky, author. It makes finding the correct edition very difficult.</p>
<p>My usual MO is to hop to the bookstore a couple weeks before classes, get ISBNs, search the internet (bigwords.com is my favorite, but DON'T use Chegg book rental) and see how many books I can save big bucks on. If it isn't that big a savings, I just buy them from the bookstore later.</p>