buy/sell used books

geek_mom
Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:18:39 +0000

I recall that some were sold by departments and announced by profs at the beginning of the semester. For others, Huntley Bookstore’s Web site allows searching by class and section. They’ll get walked through all that during frosh orientation; as a mom, I wasn’t involved in it at all. I know my son scored a complete set of books for his HUM class from a sophomore who’d taken the same class from the same prof. Remember, the Core is the Core – everyone goes through it and everyone before you has gone through it, so I think just reaching out to rising sophomores is one way to find out what books are necessary. Maybe this will be less true for the class of '14 since the Core is changing for them (right? or did I get my years mixed up?).

roble80 has a point worth considering about using the books for later reference. I tried to get my son to take this into account, but I suppose he can always pick up a copy (or borrow one again :D) if he needs to refer to one. And from my own college days, although I never sold my books back, I don’t think I referred to an old textbook more than once or twice. The one I taught from, yes – but the ones I studied from, not so much.