<p>UPDATE: Fall coursebooks will be searchable Sept. 1 [“Zot News” on UCI Bookstore website] </p>
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<p>I have a 4.0 and I am a double major (one of them being bio). Thanks for the advice though. </p>
<p>If the book is under 50 then I usually buy it because you can sell the book back for 50% easily ($25 for whole quarter). But if its over 100, then forget get it.</p>
<p>I usually don’t buy the book unless I really really REALLY need it.</p>
<p>About buying books or not… I would just buy a returnable copy at the bookstore, use it for the first week or two, and by then you should know if you actually need the book or not.</p>
<p>However, I don’t really think advising new freshmen to not buy books is a good idea… You never know when the professor will pull an assignment from the book out of the blue, and the library won’t have copies and you have no friends to borrow the books from, and then what’ll you do?</p>
<p>Yeah, I think it could go either way. Not having the actual book in possession MIGHT motivate some people to be more efficient at studying and really study hard when they check out a copy from the library’s reserve (note to freshmen: reserve books are normally only lent out for 2hrs and you must return it after that). But it could go in the opposite direction and go horribly wrong. I would say it depends on the professor and the student…so it’s not necessarily a good thing to advise anyone to do it. Maybe just throw it out there as an option I guess.</p>
<p>gah. so it would be a better idea to buy used books from other irvine students or through online instead of buying new ones?</p>
<p>iTransfer, I wasn’t giving you advice about buying no books. It might work for you, but its not good advice to give incoming freshman. I doubt they would take that type of advice seriously anyway in order to save a couple hundred bucks when they’ve already committed to spending $25k+ to attend UCI.</p>
<p>OK SIMPLE AS THIS:</p>
<p>IF YOU WANNA SUCCEED, GET THE GOD DAMN BOOKS!!!</p>
<p>iTransfer was an exception</p>
<p>Yes better idea to buy used from other students or go online.</p>
<p>question about Amazon Student - after a year of Amazon Prime free…does it start charging you the $79? or is there a way to opt out of it?</p>
<p>No, the feature will either automatically discontinue after a year or provide you with the option of paying for it.</p>