<p>I have checked on some books that I'll be needing and two include "FSU edition" after the book name. These editions cost way more than the regular book; same publisher, author, and book edition (1, 2, 3, 4...). Does anyone know if there is any discernible difference?</p>
<p>No! Sadly the FSU Edition books are total boloney. The differences are minimal, especially in your first year english classes. For ENC1102 (Freshman Research), one book the only difference was A) The Cover, and B) the second page. Save your moola and go with non-FSU edition books.</p>
<p>I also HIGHLY reccomend RENTING books from Chegg.com if you can. You basically can get the book for 50% or less than the price of the new book. You return the books via UPS (free shipping both ways) to Chegg, hastle free. There’s then no need to sell your books (The Campus bookstore gives peanuts for books worth MUCH MORE).</p>
<p>On amazon in the used listings and on half.com there are often FSU editions for sale. In the description it will say FSU edition but use the regular ISBN. You have to pull up the amazon regular listing and scan the descriptions, not the ISBN for the FSU addition. </p>
<p>I paid about 60 bucks more than I should have for my marketing text book in FSU edition. It came with a cartridge that included an online version of the non FSU edition. The text is ver batem, the exact same thing; only difference being the color of the cover. Needless to say, I was very upset with myself for blowing the money on the special edition. </p>
<p>There are times when a special edition is significantly different though, and you will need that edition (IE: On Writing for ENC1101). You never know. My opinion is that the only reason they have special editions is so the bookstores can make more money. Pretty annoying.</p>
<p>You can either view the course,description or follow the link to buy books when you view “My Class Schedule” from secure apps.
Does anyone know if the McGraw-Hill handbook for enc1101 is any different between editions?</p>
<p>Don’t by the McGraw Hill handbook yet… make sure you absolutely need it. It was “required” in both my ENC 1101 and 1102 classes, but was never needed. It’s really just a grammar handbook, and all the info can be found online if you don’t already know it.</p>
<p>Regretably I have already ordered The McGraw-Hill Handbook.
These are the books that I was going to buy, do you know if any of them are not really needed?:</p>
<p>CPSM (FLORIDA STATE) ON WRITING
Author:Bishop
Edition:4th
ISBN:9780078038969 </p>
<p>I can tell I’ll be needing all my books this semester from their prof reviews (and I have an amazing schedule this semester that I don’t plan on changing.). Unfortunately I can’t even find one of my books outside the bookstore. The ISBN doesn’t exist and they don’t name the subtitle. Argh.</p>
<p>I’ve not used a book (at all) once, and that was for a Statistics class. I wouldn’t get books now if there is any chance you will change your schedule during drop/add. I’ve changed my schedule nearly every drop/add either due to a new section being added at a better time or trying to switch out of terrible prof who was posted after class sign up closed ect.</p>
<p>Renting is a good hassle-free way to go if you don’t plan to hold onto your book.</p>