<p>Im an incoming freshman with the following class schedule</p>
<p>History of Modern Thought Cluster
Beatles Class
Asian American studies</p>
<p>What is the most cost effective way to buy books? I don't care if they are used.</p>
<p>Thanks!!</p>
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<p>The only downside about getting your books online is paying for shipping/waiting to get them in the mail.</p>
<p>I use bookfinder4u.com</p>
<p>The key though is to look in a bunch of places and compare prices. Sometimes it’s actually cheapest to get the books straight from UCLA</p>
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That’d be the day.</p>
<p>UCLA has a price match policy at least if you buy books new.</p>
<p>dealoz.com to compare prices
then i buy from either half, amazon, or ebay</p>
<p>You steal them.</p>
<p>i usually use marketplace on facebook. no shipping fees!</p>
<p>Get them from other students</p>
<p>i use DealOz.com</p>
<p>For non-major classes, I usually don’t buy books. Sometimes it’s on reserve at the library, or I just use an older edition I find (but not buy) elsewhere. Ebooks also do the trick. A lot of students also rent books, though I never do because usually for the price you rent a book for a quarter, you can find a used version you can actually keep.</p>
<p>@GrassBandit That’s good stuff, thanks for the heads up. I was actually looking for Electric Circuits by Nilsson and a DealOz seller had it for $73… the new one would have set me back by a hundred bucks more.</p>
<p>why don’t you just buy the 7th edition and pay ~$10? you can get the ebook to do the assigned problems.</p>
<p>Try [url=<a href=“http://www.bruinwalk.com%5DBruinWalk%5B/url”>http://www.bruinwalk.com]BruinWalk[/url</a>] You can buy from other students.</p>
<p>GrassBandit: I have the 8th ed ebook, tried looking for the 9th but I guess they don’t have it in electronic form. A cheap option for me would be to pick up a 9th (international) edition for $52 if the professor strictly follows the textbook and assigns problems for it. If he has his own problem sets though, I might print out the older ebook instead.</p>
<p>Find the international version</p>
<p>I use textbooks.com
Woo</p>
<p>I use half.com, and now I can tell you all since I alreay bought the cheapest “like new” ones.</p>
<p>Rent them from chegg.com instead of buying.</p>
<p>Search the ISBN on ebay and buy an international edition. you can sometimes save 80% or more.</p>
<p>you guys are noobs -_-</p>