<p>Do you usually buy new books or used books?</p>
<p>Where do you purchase books usually? (old and new)</p>
<p>i’d say the three most popular places are: </p>
<p>cornell store (retail price)
kraftees (collegetown)
amazon (free shipping)</p>
<p>half.com, ebay</p>
<p>Will we be able to get the titles of our textbooks before orientation week? I really don’t want to pay full price at the Cornell Store and would rather order them online if I can (although I heard that Kraftees is reasonably priced?)</p>
<p>None of them are reasonably priced enough.</p>
<p>I actually MADE money on selling my books back to the Cornell Store after having bought them used on Amazon and Half.com</p>
<p>Wow. So, I guess ordering online is definitely the way to go! Although, I tend to highlight/write all over my books, so I doubt the Cornell Store will buy them from me at the end of the semester, lol. But will we know our books early enough to order them?</p>
<p>highlighting is ok </p>
<p>writing might be as long as it doesnt block the text</p>
<p>you can go to the cornell store website and search for ur booklist.</p>
<p>They don’t post the book list till like 10 days before freshman move in. At least that’s how it was last year. That’s still enough time to order online.</p>
<p>yea cuz class doesnt start until a week later.</p>
<p>the official book lists aren’t up, but the faculty lists are pretty accurate.</p>
<p>i did cornell store for a while because they always said they were cheapest, and even have a long essay about being the cheapest, </p>
<p>but then one semester i walked to kraftees to check it out, and the books were way cheaper, or at the very least 10 dollars cheaper everytime</p>
<p>also return policies i think are better at kraftees and such</p>
<p>i suggest just talking with both places or more places and seeing for yourself what the better deal is</p>
<p>I would say never buy it from the Cornell Store. Overpriced everytime. I would buy it online and then possibly sell it to the Cornell Store at the end of the semester (if you’re not planning on keeping them).</p>
<p>I only bought from the Cornell Store when I absolutely had to (ex. reading packets or custom editions). I mainly shopped from Amazon (free shipping and no tax!), half.com and Barnes and Noble b/c I have a membership card there. BN offers free and ridiculously fast shipping on most textbooks (When I lived in NY I had most deliveries in 2 days or less). BN is only worth it if you have the membership card, otherwise they’re almost as pricey as the Cornell Store.</p>
<p>the only good thing about cornell store is that you can use your CORNELL CARD there. you dont have to dish out cash then and there 
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<p>and the late fees are only like 1.5%</p>
<p>How do they post book lists 10 days before? I thought you don’t even know which classes you will have until after leaving. And don’t they usually ask you to get books that you might not really need?</p>
<p>Upperclassmen know their schedule before summer even begins. And they dont ask u to get books you dont need… just books that the professors request. They also put optional or required next to each book.</p>