<p>What? How? Seriously? Every book I’ve bought or sold on half.com was priced at around 1/2 the Co-Op used price.</p>
<p>oh… and i am out of state… so when i do order the books, should i send it to my home then take it to ut? or send it to the dorm?</p>
<p>Well, if you order it right now from half.com, get it shipped to your house. If you order it when you move in to the dorm, get it sent there.</p>
<p>If you order from the Co-Op, just select “pick up” and go yourself to get it. It’s across the street from the university and they have a whole organized system in place for picking up books.</p>
<p>also, for the graphing calculator section… it says “suggested calculators:”… but is blank… what does that mean?</p>
<p>Just ignore it. Honestly if there is any confusion about required/optional/alternative options for the same textbook, just wait for the first class day or until you get the professor’s syllabus. They will really tell you what they need. Sometimes they report all books as ‘required’ to the Co-op, but some are really just supplemental resources that aren’t really necessary.</p>
<p>And sometimes no books are necessary, even if the professor claims it is.</p>
<p>“McMasters = specifically designed for UT.”</p>
<p>ok, that’s something I didn’t know, but do the professors really put much emphasis on the book? does the book teach concepts or methods that wouldn’t be in other books? are students required to turn in homework?</p>
<p>I don’t want to blow another $100+ on another calculus book unless I really have to :(</p>
<p>Some technical classes require homework out of the books, like some calculus, physics, math, and engineering classes.</p>
<p>I have never had a class where bookwork was required. I’ve taken economics, sociology, accounting, and several other business-y classes. It’s all up to the teacher. However, books for non-technical classes like sociology are very necessary still, since tests are based on you reading the material.</p>
<p>Yeah, I was kind of wondering about McMasters special edition just for UT too. Hoping just the regular 6th edition of Stewart would suffice.</p>
<p>And now since college students get 1 year free of Amazon Prime, I’m definitely getting most of my books there with maybe some from Craigslist (usually students sell them very cheap).</p>
<p>Bookwork was/is required in my Math, Chemistry, and English classes lol. :(</p>
<p>A lot of books don’t quality for Amazon Prime though. If they are are shipping by random people through the Amazon Marketplace and not through Amazon themselves, you don’t qualify for the free 2 day shipping.</p>
<p>Oh damn, good point lol. Well, I’m still going to try to find some.</p>
<p>I would HIGHLY recommend buying textbooks off of Amazon or renting them. Books for Calulus you don’t really need to purchase as the RLM library has several copies (and there expensive as hell). You should also try Beat The Bookstore, they give you a better return on textbooks when you sell them back.</p>
<p>how about West Campus Books…is this place okay?</p>
<p>When do I need my textbooks by?
If I get into one of my classes a few days before class starts, I would have to wait a while if I order online.</p>
<p>That depends on the book and the class. If it’s math and you get homework the first day, that’s pretty important. But most professors give you until the 2nd week of class to get books. The first day of school is a Wednesday, so they might not expect it until Monday. I’ve ordered a book from Half.com during on the first Thursday of class, and I got it way before it was even necessary to use it. But it depends on your teacher, I’ve never had a class where the book was really “Required” like to do problem sets from for homework or something.</p>
<p>but most math textbooks are on reserves at RLM, so you really don’t need your texts the first day.</p>
<p>in what condition are the used books from the co-op? Acceptable, Good, Very Good, or Like New? Thanks!</p>
<p>@expandmyhorizons: It depends. They have a “new” and “used” section. The “used” ones that are in really good condition tend to go more quickly then the crappier ones, but I’ve never seen an usable copy at the coop. But don’t buy at the coop! It’s really expensive.</p>
<p>I need three books for the fall semester.</p>
<p>CALCULUS >CUSTOM< Ed: 6TH Yr: 2007 STEWART
- 120 Used on Amazon, 130 Used at Co-op</p>
<p>HISTORY OF NARRATIVE FILM Ed: 4TH Yr: 2004 COOK
-I’m trying to get into a different class (8th on waiting list) and drop this one, should I buy it from Co-Op so I can return it?</p>
<p>PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS UTEX PKG Ed: 1ST Yr: 2010 DALY
-Not available online.</p>
<p>Should I just get all my books from Co-Op then?</p>
<p>Your calculus and the professional comm skills book are both custom made for UT, so basically they are preventing you from buying them elsewhere. I have my old copy of Professional Comm Skills (9th edition, I think) and I was unable to sell it since they switched to that new one the semester after I took the class.</p>
<p>When you buy from the co-op used, don’t order online. Go to the store and you can actually rummage through the different used copies and pick the one that you prefer. They claim to give you the best quality if you order online, but I wouldn’t mind a bunch of writing/highlighting and would prefer the cover and pages be in higher condition, some people I know prefer the opposite (highlighted in books make their reading jumpy and inconsistent), so it’s best to make the decision yourself.</p>
<p>I know this might be a silly question but what does it mean when professors say that they put the textbooks “on reserve”? Does this mean the books are only allowed to be used by students in their section or that the books aren’t allowed to be taken out of the PCL?</p>