<p>Hi, </p>
<p>I'm going to be a freshman next year and am trying to get some tips for saving money on textbooks.</p>
<p>I'm currently taking a summer course at Tufts, and found USED economics textbooks at the Tufts bookstore for an outrageous $140!! However, I managed to borrow an older edition of the same book from my high school AP economics teacher. Although, the chapters are in a different order, it has the all the required chapters from the newer addition used in our class, which I found out by going to the textbook's website and browsing the table of contents listed there. </p>
<p>I've heard that some schools offer a textbook lending system. Does Tufts have anything like this? Are there any swap textbooks events?</p>
<p>So does anyone have any other creative tips like this, besides buying used books from Amazon.com and half.com, because I've checked and even used textbooks are quite pricey?</p>
<p>There's a textbook buy/sell classified thing on tuftslife, some textbooks are in the library and can just be checked out if you can get your hands on them first. (I did that for one class).</p>
<p>also, by the second semester you're going to have a lot of friends who might have taken the class the last semester, they can lend or sell it to you at better than bookstore rates for both parties.
I knew a girl who would buy the books from the bookstore and order from Amazon at the same time, and then return the bookstore ones within the first week when you can still get full price back, just as the amazon ones were arriving.
Finally, you need to be able to grin and bear it. Really expensive textbooks have always been a major part of college costs... just like tupac said, "that's just the way it is."</p>
<p>really? half.com was expensive? I get books from there for a dollar. Literally, my nearly-brand-new Stat and Macro books cost a dollar apiece.</p>
<p>cheapbooks.com maybe?</p>