<p>Should I get mine used from the campus bookstore or go to a website like half.com or amazon.com?<br>
The problem is that I don't know the ISBN numbers so I don't want to risk buying the wrong copy.</p>
<p>You don't need to know the ISBN. As long as you know the title, author[s], and edition you'll be fine.</p>
<p>I've already bought all mine off half.com. If you know the book title, then do a search for the book on Google (type in name, author, even the publisher if you have that info). You should then be able to figure out the latest edition, and if you're lucky you might find the ISBN too. Although it isn't necessary, like Beck said.</p>
<p>Just beware of one thing: Make sure that what you're buying on sites like half.com are U.S. editions, and not International editions. The International ones are supposedly printed cheaper (depends per book, it could be B&W instead of color or the paper might be newsprint instead of heavy-weight paper) and they are much harder to resell.</p>
<p>well i tried to look for one of my psych books. i have the author, the edition, and the title. several different books still came up with different ISBN numbers so i didn't know which one to get.</p>
<p>Amazon market place is the best place.</p>
<p>alot of stolen books, Im seriouse.</p>
<p>ive found $100 new books for $30</p>
<p>i agree about amazon market place. I bought a brand new calculus book for $25, and the list price for it is $125. It arrived without a scratch or anything on it.</p>
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<p>you can wait till you get to school, go to the bookstore, copy the ISBN off the book you need there, and go back to your dorm and order it and have it delivered to school.</p>
<p>I use barns & nobel.com to check isbn numbers,</p>
<p>Amazon market place is done by isbn number.,</p>
<p>Where can you generally find out what books are used for what class on the university's site?</p>
<p>At orientation I filled out a form that one of the school bookstores had that told you to fill in your classes and they'd have the books ready for pickup when you get there. I thought it would be all right for the first quarter, but for the other quarters I'd like to find a better deal elsewhere.</p>
<p>I don't know how it's done at your school, but at mine the list is posted on the university bookstore website. We just have to log in with our student ID and we can print out the list of books based on what classes we are registered for.</p>
<p>Ohio State University, the website sucks, it only lets us reserve books from them by giving them our schedule, just like the form I filled out. No listing of books or anything.</p>
<p>Buy them online if you can. Half.com sells them for cheap.</p>
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<p>yep...i got most @ University Bookstore for convenience and some books, IMO are good to have former students highlighting in it as long as its not extensive and relevant key points...spent about 2 hrs. today and about 3-4 on friday finding about 20 of my 24 required textbooks</p>
<p>all these Upper division coursebooks…argh~</p>
<p>honestly though, get your Textbooks and they should have a Return Policy so get your books, if you can find a better deal Online, then return it before the allocated time -.-</p>
<p>what is a reasonable price for a semester's worth of books?
around $300ish??</p>
<p>mine is around $400+…24 books so hopefully it isn’t as much for you depending on where you’ll be getting them at, being most important than the amount of them</p>
<p>what if your school website doesnt list the edition of the textbook?</p>
<p>I just wait for my teacher to tell me what to get.</p>
<p>i just emailed my professors and they told me what to get</p>
<p>How long do the sites mentioned take to deliver your books? I won't know what books I need until I get on campus and officially register, so I'll probably need them in a few days for class.</p>
<p>Some sellers on both amazon Marketplace and half.com offer expedited shipping for 3-4 more bucks. I ordered all of mine by expedited, and they all took between 3-5 days from order to delivery.</p>