<p>when is the best time to buy textbooks?
right now or the week that classes start?</p>
<p>do we really need to buy all the book that are shown as required on the ucsb bookstore website?
what about the optional books?</p>
<p>I would recommend getting them now, so you can start reading and stuff</p>
<p>Honestly if you read ahead and know what the lecture is going to be about. you will have a much easier time. </p>
<p>Same if you take math classes, do all the problems before starting class and you will Ace everything since it will be review.</p>
<p>you can email the professor and ask him/her about it to make sure. </p>
<p>Before i started my first quarter here at UCSB last year, i decided to by all the books early. For one of my classes, I bought 2 copies of the same text. One of them was a “UCSB version” which was basically loose leafs, but they were listed seperately on the UCSBstuff website, and both were listed as “required” so i thought they were two different books =(</p>
<p>anyone in chemistry 1A next quarter? i bought the 5th edition rather than the 6th and am wondering if it would make that big of difference.</p>