<p>Where to buy cheap textbooks? Any websites or places :).</p>
<p>You just gotta shop around. I haven’t seen one place offering consistently lower prices if that’s what you’re looking for. However, I’ve had a great experience renting and would highly recommend it over buying/re-selling.</p>
<p>Have you signed up for Amazon student? </p>
<p>Free two-day shipping, lower prices than the co-op on practically every single book, no sales taxes on any purchases (for now at least, better take advantage before the states tax laws catch up), and extremely convenient.</p>
<p>I love amazon for textbooks. I buy all of my textbooks there and then sell them back on the amazon seller market at the end of the semester.</p>
<p>Renting is okay, but there are two distinct advantages to buying: </p>
<p>1.) You can keep textbooks that end up being useful.
2.) You can resell textbooks so that your net cost is often less than the rental cost. In fact, I’ve made profit off at least four textbooks in the last two semesters.</p>
<p>I like to use Bigwords.com</p>
<p>Personally, I have found only 1 or 2 books per semester to be cheapest on Amazon. Amazon student is free for one year and is great (real great) while it lasts, but, with my past schedules, it would have been very unwise to go “all-in” with Amazon. Again, I recommend shopping around. You can do everything you need from the computer and an hour of research can quite easily turn into $30 saved. If you’ve ever worked for minimum wage then this time will be more than 3 times more efficiently spent. Just my 2 cents.</p>
<p>In regards to rental vs. buying/reselling, I’ve had a couple prof’s change textbooks right after my semester, effectively making 3 of my books depreciate like crazy. That was enough to scare me away. As long as you’re proactive about discovering this early, buy/reselling might be the better option. Fortunately, someone else pays for my textbooks so I’ve never put too much worry in to it and renting is very convenient.</p>