How do I find out the textbooks my classes use?

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<p>Hi, I was told at orientation that we could find what textbooks our classes use online. However, I just spent a good hour looking around the UCLA and MyUCLA sites and have been unable to find out. Is it possible that the names of textbooks haven't been released yet or am I just looking in the wrong places?</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>[UCLA</a> STORE: Lobby](<a href=“http://www.uclaestore.com/ucla/textbook_student.asp?ref=ucla&mscssid=UW11U5NQPLXN9GKUW9TE7S4L58HA5E15]UCLA”>http://www.uclaestore.com/ucla/textbook_student.asp?ref=ucla&mscssid=UW11U5NQPLXN9GKUW9TE7S4L58HA5E15)</p>

<p>Enter your ID and Last Name & Fall 08 and you’ll find your books.</p>

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<p>Hmm that’s strange for some reason it doesn’t work, it just gives me an error when I press “Continue”</p>

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<p>you can also look under “Study List” on myUCLA. don’t worry about it yet, my classes haven’t released textbook information either. I say check in mid-August, hopefully it will be up by then.</p>

<p>also, purchase your textbooks through the internet (amazon.com is pretty awesome), not through the UCLA bookstore (if you can help it). it’s a lot cheaper.</p>

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<p>My advice is that you should buy the books online right now if they are available on the website. This is if you plan to save money, as opposed to buying at Textbook Plus or the UCLA textbook store.</p>

<p>Keep in mind that not all textbooks or manuals needed can be purchased online though.</p>

<p>Textbook vendors who sell online know when the peak periods are for selling books. They have the ability to set a quasi-monopoly in certain textbooks. The time when books are most expensive are the weeks when students start school (mid August - late September). I remember watching prices raise by 10-25% during these periods.</p>

<p>For example, a new book I just bought today is selling for $65-70, and could reach $90-100 by early September. The book costs $150 at the UCLA textbook store.</p>

<p>From my experience, purchasing engineering books overseas was the cheapest. The next cheapest option was from Abebooks, followed by Amazon, and then followed by Half.com.</p>

<p>Following the model I mentioned above, you now know when the best time to SELL your books. :rolleyes:</p>

<p>I used to find the cheapest books on Half, but now sellers on Amazon tend to sell their books cheaper by a few dollars.</p>

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<p>some of the book names have “(ucla custom)” after the name. what does that mean?</p>

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<p>that most likely means that the professor of your class (or your department) collaborated with the publisher to create a “custom” book. that means certain parts of the text of your book have been removed and other parts expanded, per the request of your professor. therefore, the book is tailored to the specific needs of your class.</p>

<p>they think it’s helping… but it’s not really.</p>

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<p>Hmm, I still can’t view the books. When I try, I get the following message:</p>

<p>Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error ‘80004005’</p>

<p>[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB]SQL Server does not exist or access denied.</p>

<p>/textbookstore/student<em>login</em>ch.asp, line 62 </p>

<p>Anyone else get this or is it just me?</p>

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<p>Yeah I get that message too. It’s weird because it was working just last week.</p>

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<p>i get it too.</p>

<p>bleh, i wanted to order my books…</p>

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<p>xleper: does that mean i should buy the ucla custom and not from amazon? even tho its almost half the price on amazon?</p>

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<p>NO! get the amazon book. easier to resell.</p>

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<p>Is there somewhere where we can find the ISBN for all the textbooks that we need?</p>

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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-california-los-angeles/437725-finding-isbn-s.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-california-los-angeles/437725-finding-isbn-s.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>awesome, that script code is very useful.</p>

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<p>are ucla store textbooks (used) ever cheaper than amazon etc. (used) books?</p>

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<p>Not that I’ve seen</p>

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<p>Umm well for my English etc. classes that has been the case some times. think a copy of Rousseau or sth was like $2-3 at UCLA store, i mean it was cheaper online even still, but shipping drowned out the savings. Rmb to add a few dollars to prices online for shipping, and for English/hphilosphy etc. books, the price originally probably wast more than $15 so u save less.</p>

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<p>sometimes, but only for relatively cheap ones…like $30 or less.</p>

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Yes, textbooks with rare software packages.</p>