<p>Where do, in your experience, feel you get the best bang for your buck in both buying and selling books for college? The prices add up and I certainly made the freshman mistake of buying from the bookstore my first semester...definitely better, cheaper ways to find books. Would love to hear some suggestions?</p>
<p>Source: CollegEnquirer</a> | Where to Buy/Sell Books for College</p>
<p>For books that are specific only to my university (like the book for the Physics 7 series, unique only to UC Davis), I buy them at the bookstore. For all other books, I buy them off Amazon or just get them on reserve at the library. I also sell on Amazon.</p>
<p>Rent from Chegg when possible.</p>
<p>Other students on campus, definitely cheaper and less of a hassle</p>
<p>There is a student run facebook group at my university for the buying and selling of textbooks. I use that first and then amazon and then dover (since they have my music scores)</p>
<p>I buy/sell from Amazon, unless it’s school specific- then I can usually buy from Off Campus Books.</p>
<p>Like fluteloop, my school has a student-run website for textbook sales between students. Setups like that are a good deal all around, because a student will sell you a book for way cheaper than the bookstore would, and at the same time, you’re paying the student more than the bookstore would if they tried to sell back to them.</p>
<p>So I try to use this when I can. Otherwise, I buy from the cheaper of the two bookstores here. I know I should really probably use Amazon or something, but I’m too lazy/afraid I’ll buy the wrong thing/afraid it won’t arrive on time. :P</p>
<p>bookrenter.com for the cheapest books ever. I buy my loose leaf (requirement for maths at my school) on Amazon. to sell, I go to bookscouter :)</p>
<p>I usually get mine on Amazon. I’ve already started getting some of my books for next year actually. I’ll never buy books at my school bookstore ever again. I’ve looked at my schools prices for the books I’ll need this fall…and it would cost me around $1000 there…for used ones. I’ll be able to get all of them on Amazon for around $300-350. That’s a pretty substantial difference.</p>
<p>The prices of college textbooks are absolutely outrageous. I don’t know how they can justify charging broke college students $200-300+ for a single textbook.</p>