<p>Should I buy them now or after the first day of classes?</p>
<p>If you are planning on buying them from the UB bookstore, it really doesn’t matter too much. Buying now may save some time since you won’t be waiting in as many lines.</p>
<p>If you are planning on trying to buy them on-line from somewhere <em>other</em> than the UB bookstore, you should start shopping now so that you will have the books by the time classes start.</p>
<p>What you don’t want is to find out that you are still waiting for a textbook when homework is assigned out of it during the firs week of class. It’s a real bad idea to get behind the very first week simply because your text hasn’t arrived.</p>
<p>If you buy from the bookstore, best thing to do is order them online and pick them up…you don’t have to wait in nearly as long of a line since you’re already paid.</p>
<p>If ordering online from someplace else, you’ll want the text within the first few classes.</p>
<p>Beware custom UB editions, especially for calculus, etc. You probably won’t find those online.</p>
<p>Would you recommend I buy textbooks from the bookstore or elsewhere? And if I order online from the bookstore, I can just go there and pick it up, right? (I won’t be going to Buffalo until the 26th so I can’t really buy the books in person until then.)</p>
<p>If you can find them elsewhere cheaper, get them there. Check Craigslist (students often sell old textbooks there), the SA book exchange (SA website currently down), Amazon, half.com, and ebay.</p>
<p>The College Store on Maple Rd. also has most textbooks and is sometimes cheaper than the UB bookstore.</p>
<p>Inevitably you will have some textbooks that you need to get at the bookstore though. You can pick them up there, yes.</p>
<p>How do you know what books to buy already?</p>
<p>David, when you log on to My UB and click on the classes you’re registered for, you’ll see the link for the textbook required for the class toward the bottom of the page.</p>
<p>Hmm, that must be new.</p>
<p>You can also go to the bookstore’s website and enter in your class and section.</p>
<p>Yes, we had to make do with info from the bookstore website last year but it didn’t give the ISBN…the new thing on the course info page is to comply with federal law and does give all the info you need to shop for the books online and elsewhere.</p>
<p>What page can you find the books required for each class? My son (incoming freshman, so all this is new) went looking but every class had the notation “course material under review by department”.</p>
<p>You can try the UB bookstore site but sometimes it just takes awhile for them to post their textbook requirements…or there may not be a required text. If he can see his courses in UBLearns, the syllabus may be posted and contain that info.</p>
<p>I was online looking up information for my textbooks and was really curious because for the CHEM 101 class it says to choose 1 of 3 from the required texts. All of the texts differ greatly in price range some are the hardcover texts ( 1100 pages)and cost 140, but than there is different books that are only about 300 pages and cost about $40. I just want to make sure that I get the right books but would like to save some money if I can. Any help?</p>
<p>Check the syllabus on UB Learns - chances are your prof will have addressed the required material issue there or will send you an email. Or you can email him. I seem to remember that last year they used the online Mastering Chemistry thing - that was about a $40 charge - plus a textbook that was over $100, plus a lab kit that was around $20. Luckily, the use the same for CHE102!</p>
<p>Hi, I have another question. If I’m ordering online at half.com, can I ship books to my dorm? The books might arrive earlier than I do. If that happens, will someone pick them up or something?</p>
<p>One more thing! I have the same problem as bsball, but with PHY107. I can’t find the syllabus on UB Learns. There’s this iClicker thing for 30 bucks and then all the other books are 100+ dollars. Does anyone know what to buy?</p>
<p>For PHY107, you need the iClicker. There are in class quizzes once a week (prof puts a multiple choice question on the board and you have to key in the answer. Although the answer is the same for everyone in the room and it’s a large lecture hall). They are worth about 10% of the grade.</p>
<p>You also need to make sure you have a Wiley Plus code. That is the online homework, which you need access to.</p>
<p>You can buy the textbook with a Wiley Plus subscription, I believe. I believe you can also buy the combined Physics I/Physics II book.</p>
<p>My advice: Don’t buy the book.</p>
<p>You can buy a Wiley Plus subscription for $80 to do the homework, and it comes with an electronic version of the textbook. Chances are you’ll never use the textbook in that class anyway…notes and practice problems are all most people need. Plus you have the electronic version to reference if you need it.</p>
<p>They’ll tell you on the first day of class how to purchase a Wiley Plus subscription if you want to do that.</p>
<p>Packages are always held at the area office in your building, you get a slip in your mailbox to get them Check the URHA website or brochures, it should say what day they’ll start holding packages. Make sure you have your name on the package, as they might forward it to the room’s previous occupant otherwise.</p>
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<p>It’s disappointing that it’s only four days until the start of class, yet several of my son’s classes still do not have the required books listed on any of the UB websites.</p>
<p>JayDee, if they aren’t listed on the bookstore website it’s possible they are not required to purchase a book. Sometimes the prof gives/sells them what they need. For example, my D’s stats prof (STA119) last year had written his own course material and they just paid him a nominal amount to cover the costs the first week of class. If you post the course numbers here it’s possible someone will know why they aren’t listed.</p>
<p>Jaydee, what SK8rmom is saying could very well be true. Last semester I took an introductory Finance course along with some other courses. On the University Bookstore’s website all my other classes had books listed except finance. So I get to the finance class the first day and the professor says we don’t need a textbook. However, we needed the finance book he wrote. What was great about it was the book was that it only cost $30 bucks and covered all the same material as other more expensive finance textbooks. Other finance professors used other finance textbooks that had cost $100+.</p>