<p>Title is pretty self-explanatory. I used Chegg.com and Half.com. I saved over $300! I just hope my books come in time for classes.</p>
<p>Amazon!!!</p>
<p>Of course, with any of these online stores you have to order kind of far in advance…however, I’ve noticed that Amazon will tell you that your books are due to arrive in like 2 weeks, but it usually takes about 3-7 days.</p>
<p>I used Amazon & ebay. $1000+ of textbooks turned to about $500 this year. :D</p>
<p>I don’t buy my books until after classes have started, that way I can gauge which books will actually be used. I can save a fortune that way alone. There are some professors who will have you buy stuff and it’s never used or even needed.</p>
<p>After that, I use Amazon ftw.</p>
<p>Yeah, I hate it when professors tell you that you need to buy this book and then you never use it. A lot of times libraries can lend them out to you for an hour or two, and then you can take awesome notes.
I had a foreign exchange student my freshmen year, she thought it was stupid that we had to buy books because back home the professors put the information from textbooks online in PDF or whatever.</p>
<p>Amazon and Barnes and Noble’s website.</p>
<p>Amazon has a nice feature so that you can buy used books from previous students and you can also sell your old books on there to make a little cash to pay for your new ones. Another good idea is to look around at school on bulletin boards and other places students are allowed to post ads. Many students try to sell thier books that way because alot of the time professors will use the same books several years in a row not ot mention semesters in a row of course. Read more ways to get cheap text books here [Text</a> Books | CollegeRemedy](<a href=“http://collegeremedy.com/collegehelp/category/text-books/]Text”>http://collegeremedy.com/collegehelp/category/text-books/). Good Luck!</p>
<p>Bought used, compared prices rented a few.</p>
<p>This semester I’m going to try to rent my biology book from my school bookstore. I won’t need a Spanish book because the same book is used for Spanish 1 &2 (yay!). I’m going to wait and see about my online classes and my algebra class. There’s not information on what books are needed for what class yet on our bookstore website and plus, as mentioned before, I’ll wait and see what I will actually need.</p>
<p>Mostly I just do book buy-backs so I have some money to use on books for the next semester. I buy used when I can, and this semester I’ll try using Amazon if I have time to.</p>
<p>Sorry to bump an old as Moses thread, but:</p>
<p>How long does somebody have to pay on an eBay purchase? I sold a textbook to someone about four days ago and dude hasn’t paid. I thought this was eBay, not e-Layaway.</p>
<p>I don’t know the answer to your question, sorry, but since this thread is alive again…</p>
<p>I ended up returning nearly everything I bought from our bookstore because I realized either I didn’t need it or I ended up finding everything else much, much cheaper. We were told we didn’t have to have the newest edition of our biology book. The only real reason we would need it is because he asks extra credit questions about articles in the books, and some of the articles are not in the older editions. I got my $70 or $80 back, whichever it was, and found an older edition on Amazon for $3.99!</p>
<p>I also returned my set of World Lit. books, which I also bought for around 70 or 80 dollars, and now I’m buying them separately on amazon. I found the first one for $9, and it might really be the only volume I’ll end up needing. I might have to get one of the others, but neither of them were selling for more than $10.</p>
<p>Half.com, amazon and Ebay. I got about $500 worth of books for less than $200 this semester. NEVER shop at the school’s bookstore.</p>