<p>How to get cheap textbooks? I heard that used textbooks are a lot cheaper. Can someone tell me where I can buy them for the cheapest price? Where on campus or off campus do students buy old stuff from upperclassmen? Thanks!</p>
<p>half.com
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<p>amazon.com (marketplace) is a good place to go</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m using half.com as well.</p>
<p>Amazon, Half.com, Ebay, Facebook Marketplace, Used books fair (or whatever that thing is called where you turn in your used stuff and then buy other stuff or something).</p>
<p>alibris.com is good for whatever novels you have for class. i got most of my Great Books and Physics ones from there.</p>
<p>half.com, amazon, fb marketplac</p>
<p>Half.com and Amazon are amazing.</p>
<p>Buy international edition books off eBay.</p>
<p>Really the only difference is just that the books have a soft cover. Everything else the same. A $150 book new becomes $50 with the international edition. Just make sure you get a color copy and if it is an engineering book, make sure the units match up (I’ve seen them change units to SI for a mechanical engineering book.)</p>
<p>My Power Systems book is listed $86 used or $130 new on Half.com. I got a new international edition for $54 on ebay.</p>
<p>If your going international you need to make sure the questions/problem sets are the same. Many international textbooks will change the problem numbers in a book and you might answer all the wrong questions.</p>
<p>I’ve done it for the past 3 semesters, only had a problem with changed problem sets once (the international edition had converted problems with English units to SI units.) But the problem was the exact same other than that. I just went to office hours one day and copied down the correct units for the problems assigned to us. Wasn’t a big deal, helped to save at least $50.</p>
<p>just make sure at least though. My friend handed in his first homework assignment and got them all wrong.</p>
<p>You can always get the international version and ask to borrow a friend’s book and copy (xerox) the pages that have the problems.</p>
<p>I got all my textbooks from Amazon Marketplace. I managed to get books for three classes for $200, and then the book list for my fourth class came in and I ended up having to spend another $200. >.< That’s still much better than what I’m used to paying, and several of those books I got new if the only used in decent condition were within a few dollars so I think I got a pretty damn good deal still for 10 books.</p>