How To Do Just About Everything
By eHow Education Editor
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Textbooks can cost a lot of money, but you don't have to pay a lot. Take some time to look around and you're bound to find some good deals.
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Comments
jackknive said
on 6/8/2008 Do Ebay. I got a $250 text book for $2.25 with free shipping. It was awesome. Also one thing that saves huge is if they want the 5th edition, get the 4th. They are almost always exact, and if not it's so close it won't make a difference. Older versions really do cost a lot less.
bookworm said
on 11/11/2007 This is article is exactly right. You have to search around before buying your textbooks. The great thing is with the Internet this is easy. There are book price comparison search engines designed exactly for this purpose. The one I use regularly to get discount textbooks is SmartBookFinder.com. They search and compare prices at all the major on-line bookstores. They also have a feature that I use that allows me to find books I can get 'fast' or within 1-7 Days. My last word of advice is buy used if you can.
bookworm said
on 11/10/2007 The best advice I can give on this is that there are LARGE price differences among on-line bookstores. Thus, using a book price comparison search engine is the way to go. They will find you which bookstore has the lowest price. The one I use is SmartBookFinder.com: http://www.smartbookfinder.com. Its the best book price comparison engine I know of. Last time I used a comparison engine in college I saved tons on my books.
DavidR said
on 11/6/2007 I got so frustrated with the bookstore. They did not buy back all my books and they gave me really low prices on the others. I liked www.jitterbook.com. They accepted most of my books and the pricing can't be beat! Free shipping too!
Shadow_anne said
on 6/17/2007 Always remember to check the classified boards around campus, usually other students have books and even supplies listed at a great discount.
The best advise I every got was to go to half.com
It's a part of ebay and it is absolutely amazing how much of a discount you can get. You can search by title or author, but for text books it is so much easier to got to your campus bookstore and find all the books you need, then turn them over and look at the barcode on the back. Write down the USB code for each book and search for them that way on half.com
It will save you from guessing which edition you need or God only knows what else.
This site has saved me so much time and money, I hope it helps others as much as it has helped me!