<p>Should i buy my textbooks now using the lists online or are those not updated yet? I would definitely like to get an earlier start so I can order online and still have the books by the first day of classes. I don't want to be stuck buying them from the cornell store simply because I don't have enough time left.</p>
<p>I don’t know if you can find your book list right now.</p>
<p>I used to use the Cornell Store Faculty Verification page, but that stopped working a few months ago, and I can’t find anything that lists that data anymore.</p>
<p>There is the Course Book History, but I’m not sure whether I want to trust that will be the same book as for the current semester.</p>
<p>well if you go on cornell’s website, they have the summer course book schedules listed. Also, i guess cornell’s working on a personalized schedule with what books you need but as of now its only detailing the classes I am taking and not the books i need for those classes. Anybody know when the official lists and realeased? Hopefully before orientation.</p>
<p>How long can you usually wait after classes start before you’d need to have the books? How can you buy them now if you don’t really know for sure what classes you will have?</p>
<p>where is this list?</p>
<p>well, i know which classes i’m enrolled in (added them on the 20th succesfully) and those are pretty much the classes I am set on taking. Is there really a significant chance that I’ll get kicked out of them or something?</p>
<p>if i remember correctly, last year the lists were up like around august 15th or so. kind of late, but it might be risky to buy books based on last yr’s lists since those are bound to change.</p>
<p>Note on buying textbooks: as much as possible, avoid the Cornell Store. Sure, they have some things like lab manuals that you can only get there. But if you can, order online (amazon, half.com) for big savings. If you can’t order online, there’s this nice place in collegetown that has cheaper books (Kraftees, google it)</p>
<p>do we have it shipped to our dorm room or to us and we bring them up to cornell? if we order them like august 15th</p>
<p>collegebound, I personally plan on ordering them like the day or two before I move in, that way they’ll be shipped to my room. But I don’t think you’re allowed to have anything mailed to your room before move in day, so I don’t know what would happen if you did.</p>
<p>is there going to be like a notification email when the book lists come out? How will we know?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>^if i remember correctly, they sent out an e-mail before. maybe someone else could verify that…</p>
<p>I believe the Cornell Store sent out an e-mail saying “Your booklist is now ready for viewing” or something like that.</p>
<p>^ exactly</p>
<p>10char</p>
<p>i think i read somewhere the book lists are available 2 weeks before classes start.</p>
<p>Trust me when I say this: do not buy your textbooks now. Wait until Orientation Week or even a week into class. There is a chance that you may drop a class or change classes and then you will have bought those books for nothing. Also, many professors assign books to buy that you will never ever open. I’d definitely wait until at least Orientation Week to buy books.</p>
<p>[Get</a> Your Booklist!](<a href=“http://www.cbs.cornell.edu/textbooks/]Get”>http://www.cbs.cornell.edu/textbooks/)
You can sign up for an email alert when the books for your courses come out. This page also has a list of 09 Fall courses but most courses don’t list their books yet.</p>
<p>I have heard people say that professors assign books that you never open.</p>
<p>Whats the reason for never opening them? The books are not interesting? They aren’t directly related to the class work? </p>
<p>It’s something I never understood very well.</p>
<p>Don’t buy books now. I have been through different colleges with different departments. The department heads usually change the textbooks for the courses almost every year, even during the school term (happened to me twice).
The professor will let you slide for the first few weeks into the course without having a textbook since that’s also the same time as the drop period. You probably then would know which books you need and not need even if it’s on the list since your professor will tell you what book he/she might not use. So you shouldn’t worry about a textbook now, other than finding the cheapest ones.
The other thing is though, some departments use the same books over and over, like some language courses, and if you can find the syllabus of the course online (thru Google), you probably could buy the book early and most likely have a good chance of using that book, like Japanese 1101 since the book they use has been used for the past 5+ years.</p>
<p>i took a risk and bought most my books. i checked the past few years and they used the same book, and the professor is still the same so theres a HIGH chance that the book will be used again =D, thats why i bought them =), besides even if it turns out to be the wrong book, i can just sell it back and break even</p>