Buying textbooks?

Malvenuto
Sat, 25 Jul 2009 15:26:41 +0000

The only advantage to preordering from the school bookstore is that used copies might sell out before you can buy them in person. This has never happened to me though. You can also return the books after you buy them through most of add-drop period.

You can usually get books much cheaper online. Even buying them new from Amazon often gets you the same price as used ones in the bookstore.

For recommended books, it really depends on the class. The only class I’ve taken with a recommended book was Biochem. It was the solution manual, but the professor posted solutions to recommended problems on blackboard, so it was only useful for people wanting to do extra problems.