<p>want my books NOW for school?</p>
<p>why would it be, get em early and possibly cheap. guess you have to have a measure of certainty though...</p>
<p>yeah i thiught about contacting my teachers...</p>
<p>Not wrong at all.</p>
<p>Before you contact your professors, I'd look online to see if your course has a website with the syllabus through the University (ex. my school uses Blackboard), or if your bookstore has a site where you input your schedule and it tells you what books to buy. Also, you could call the bookstore and ask what you need.</p>
<p>It's a good idea to buy them now. Your school's bookstore will probably be the most expensive place to buy them. However, if they have an online bookstore, you should be able to find what books each class requires from there, and then go on the Amazon booksellers or other used/new/cheap book websites and buy your books there for less than half the cost.</p>
<p>I wouldn't buy books yet. You'll have to pay shipping, which you wouldn't have to pay if you bought them when you got to campus. Plus it's just one more (big and heavy) thing you need to pack and travel with.</p>
<p>The shipping won't even come close to the difference between the extremely expensive campus bookstore and online. Get them online.</p>
<p>I suggest you jump right in and get them early. If you plan on saving a little money by purchasing used books, this method will help to ensure that you actually get them before they run out. Online bookstores usually give you the option between new and used. Go used! Even though there may be the remnants of chicken scratch and highlighter marks, you'll have the book for much less.</p>
<p>They have no isbn's!</p>
<p>ISBN... Intermediate Speed Ballistic Nuke.</p>
<p>yes, it is absolutely wrong. </p>
<p>You should NEVER get your books until you've actually been to class and gotten the syllabus, listened to the professor and gotten an idea of how important the text will actually be as part of the course.</p>
<p>It happens all the time that professors change books, or list a book that you don't really need. It makes no sense to grab books for a class when all the tests are going to be based only on material in lecture.</p>
<p>Bigredmed is completely right. Never buy books until you have attended at least one class session.</p>
<p>Always go to class first. One time, my professor (who's book we're using in class) said his book is on sale in the bookstore. He then asked how much it was being sold for, when he found out he was so surprised at the high price that he said don't buy it at the bookstore and get it used or elsewhere. I did and ended up saving over 100 dollars whereas half the class rushed to the bookstore to buy his book.</p>