<p>at what time are we expected to buy our textbooks by for our classes?</p>
<p>Your <em>probably</em> won’t have any reading assigned week 0. So if you have them by Sept. 28th (beginning of week 1) you will be right on time. Even if they come a week or two late you can always borrow from friends or go to the library and use the course reserves. The prof isn’t going to like check to see if you have them on the first day or anything.</p>
<p>After we sign up for classes, do we have to go to the first class to find out what textbook we need or is there some way to find out before hand?</p>
<p>On Tritonlink on the schedule of classes, there is a little book logo next to each class. Click on it and it gives you the book list.</p>
<p>BTW I have bunch of books from freshman year(08-09)(chemistry for 6abc, math for 10abc, psyh for 1,2). If anyone from SD interested, pm me.
Any sugestions what is the best place to sell books and when?</p>
<p>sungirl:
I find that the best place to sell books (if you don’t need the money right away) is half.com. It’s a pretty reliable place (ebay partner) to sell and buy your textbooks/books. I bought my chem6 textbook and several other books from there. I would suggest putting them up asap, so you have more opportunity to have them be bought soon. The buy-back program at UCSD (and most colleges for that matter) isn’t really the best place to get the highest value for your books, but it is the quickest way to get rid of them.</p>
<p>OP: I would suggest getting the textbooks you know you definitely need (for example for Chem6, the chem6 textbook, or for math10c, the math10c portion of the math10 textbook) as soon as you can. Perhaps the day of, or before, your first class session. My chem and math professors went straight into the subject, and it was nice being able to do my homework that same day… [Don’t forget to socialize! At least somewhat!] =)</p>
<p>With courses like the writing requirement courses or the Hum series, all novels aren’t needed the first day, so if you’re strapped on cash, purchasing two at a time is a good idea.</p>
<p>Also, if you’re buying your books at the UCSD bookstore, it’s always first come, first serve. So if you want a clean, no-coffee-spill used version, get to it. There are some very new-looking used textbooks/books out there, so early bird gets the worm!</p>
<p>Half.com RULES!!</p>
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<p>You should make some flyers with the list of books on it. Look up classes that will be using those books and post the flyers near the classrooms of those classes. Thats how I sold some of mine</p>
<p>Lol, I’ve done the same thing, but I put flyers on the doors and in the classrooms. I’ve also considered sitting in on the first day of class to actually talk to people…or rather, lie…like tell them you have an “extra” book. I usually sell my books on the first day of my classes, so I know it works VERY well. I should do something similar at the end of each term to buy books.</p>
<p>^ HAHA…well your suggestions are, as usual, ‘clever’.</p>
<p>How come some of the classes don’t have a textbook listed yet?</p>
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<p>some professors wait until the first lecture to reveal what textbook they will be using. Some classes dont use a textbook, just a reader. The readers are never listed on tritonlink so you will find out in the first lecture of week 1.</p>
<p>don’t u guys use text books reservation?</p>
<p>I signed up for the texbook reservation in my orientation… Do we have to do anything or do will they know what books I’ll need?.. And when are you suppose to pick them up and pay for them?.. lost</p>
<p>Basically… only freshmen use textbook reservation because it’s so damn expensive and they don’t know better. I remember reading last year that the most useful thing about the program is the box your books come in. </p>
<p>^They will know what books you need. You pick them up during welcome week at price center and they get billed to your student account.</p>
<p>does the edition of a textbook really matter? like if the required book is like 5th edition, is it okay to get a 4th edition version if it’s cheaper? will they be too different that you might as well pay more money for the newer version?</p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>It depends if homework gets assigned out of the book or not. With some subjects it doesn’t even matter if it’s the same author, like with physics books…they’re all VERY similar and more than good enough if you know what subject matter to look for. </p>
<p>Still though, if you shop around, you can get almost any textbook for very little money…lower than half, abes or amazon. You can do pretty much the same methods as we’ve discussed for selling books, that is, post ads around campus, go to classes near the end of their term, post a want ad on craigslist, and emailing your classmates. You should also be able to borrow books to some extent on campus so you spend nothing at all.</p>
<p>If you combine the methods in this thread regarding buying and selling books, you can probably turn a profit. I profit, but I also do a lot of work for that, and it’s totally not worth the trouble if the only benefit is making/saving a couple hundred bucks every term.</p>
<p>Physics 2ABC courses require A CUSTOM edition of ‘University physics textbook, young and freedman’. I have the original book from my AP course. That would suffice?</p>
<p>Custom pretty much means they cut out chapters from a full book because they don’t teach the entire book there. It really only matters if homework assignments come from the book. I don’t know how good AP books are. I’d prefer to use a normal textbook.</p>
<p>Wait, they changed the author for physics? Didn’t it used to be Serway? Serway would’ve been a good way to save money. I’ve looked at about half a dozen different Serway books. At least 99% of the content in Serway’s books are literally cut and pasted from one book to the other–no exaggeration. The big differences is the cover, order of the chapters, and maybe 1-2 more or less homework problems…although I think the science & engineer one might have an extra section or two for the electricity stuff…and this shouldn’t even matter if you’re paying attention in lecture.</p>
<p>2 usually uses Wolfson/Pasachoff. Just bring your AP book and compare it to the bookstore book when you get here (sometime in the first couple days of class), if anything seems radically different, buy the ucsd customs version. If you think yours will be sufficient for reading/concept, just keep yours and for doing homework (if theyre different) you can to go Geisel and they have textbooks on reserve, meaning you can check them out for 3 hours at a time to do the homework. Just ask your RA about how to check out your textbooks at the library when you get here if you get confused</p>