<p>do you know of any?</p>
<p>My son uses Amazon.</p>
<p>I’ve heard of ecampus.com, though I’ve never tried it myself. Good luck!</p>
<p>try bestbookbuys.com</p>
<p>I recently bought a math book at abebooks.com. Some sellers will sell you an international version–soft cover, the pages are very thin, but you could buy a new book for $50 that costs $150 new.</p>
<p>I’ve also used Amazon to buy used books and that worked pretty well.</p>
<p>If you don’t mind used books, abebooks.com and campusi.com work well (campusi.com really for new books). Betterworldbooks.com is good for used books that are sort of universal (e.g. I just bought Augustine’s * Political Writings *, Hobbes * Leviathan *, Machiavelli’s * The Prince and the Discourses * and John Stuart Mill’s * On Liberty and Other Essays * for around 30 bucks.)</p>
<p>Book search/price comparison services:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.addall.com%5B/url%5D”>www.addall.com</a> (new)
<a href=“http://www.used.addall.com%5B/url%5D”>www.used.addall.com</a> (used)
<a href=“http://www.bookfinder.com%5B/url%5D”>www.bookfinder.com</a> (new and used)</p>
<p>We use half.com, DD was able to pick up her Calc book for 14.95 instead of 102, same with animal science texts and physics. Shipping is about $3-4, purchased son’s AP review book for $.75 + shipping. You can search by title or ISBN, to ensure correct edition. However, D contacted some of her profs ahead of time via email and some (econ and o-chem profs) said it would make no difference if she had an earlier edition. That saved a ton of money. Her econ book was 2.95+shipping(previous edition on half.com)n versus $125+. </p>
<p>For the fall semester and last spring she has been able to locate and check-out(long-term check-out) several of her texts from the uni library. Saved over $250 (fall only) so far. She usually only picks the texts (library) she doesn’t need to keep or highlight.</p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>Half.com is very good. It appears as one of many vendors on used.addall.com and bookfinder.com.</p>
<p>I’ve used ecampus, and it’s pretty good. Not huge savings, but about 10% off.</p>
<p>of the sites given, ecampus.com looks nice as it seems that it is a supplier–all books will come from there. am I correct? This is a nice thought when classes are all started and you’re not expecting different packages from all over. just one shipment is nice.</p>
<p>Even when you order from one place though, they might not have all your books available (or if they have more than one warehouse, they might be located in different ones) so you still might end up waiting around for multiple shipments.</p>
<p>What’s your experience about finding out what books you need and getting them ordered and delivered in time to start the semester.</p>
<p>Our freshman seems at a disadvantage since he won’t be allowed to register for classes and know what books he needs until very late. Does that get better once you’re past that first semester?</p>
<p>How do you find the ISBN’s, so you know you’re ordering the right book? I found the titles/authors of the required textbooks for fall on the college bookstore site, but… no ISBN’s listed. Searching <a href=“http://www.used.com%5B/url%5D”>www.used.com</a> sometimes brings up several books with same/similar title and author, so it leaves me uneasy ordering it, like I might pick the wrong edition or something.</p>
<p>We use barnes and noble.com to search for ISBNs. College bookstore usually will list what edition the book is and sometimes the publication date. With that info BandN.com website will give you author/title and then ISBN with page numbers and review. Also will give you a head’s up if there are other editions previously. Cross-reference that info at half.com using the ISBN search. Once the book is found, half-com will also provide you with a list of other editions. Barnes and Noble usually shows the cover of the book, so if you have seen it at the bookstore as well you can also tell if it is the right edition. </p>
<p>We have also just called the college bookstores and asked them for the edition and ISBN. Sometimes B and N ships within 24 hours or at worst 2-3 days, comes UPS bubble wrapped.</p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>Try also <a href=“http://www.Bookfinder4U.com%5B/url%5D”>www.Bookfinder4U.com</a> and <a href=“http://www.gettextbooks.com%5B/url%5D”>www.gettextbooks.com</a>. They will search a lot of the popular discount booksites. Personally, after doing all this, I ended up getting a lot of the books from Amazon (the used book section). Don’t forget that <a href=“http://www.Overstock.com%5B/url%5D”>www.Overstock.com</a> also sells books, and more than you’d think</p>
<p>I too am interested to know if you get books in time to start classes. How long does it usually take?</p>
<p>Some vendors ship UPS, so the books come quickly. The only drawback with Amazon’s used booksellers is that they use USPS media mail, which can take anywhere from 2 days to 2 weeks. I ordered my younger s’s books in early July (we get the textbook list in an email in the summer for his HS), and all arrived within a week. However, when you order closer to school, it can take longer. Older s. has ordered college books on line- he was usually able to find the books in the library or share a friends for the first week or so 'til his books arrived. It worked out ok.</p>
<p>Couldn’t you email your profs ahead of time and get the bulk of the books ordered before you head to college so they will be waiting for you at the dorm.</p>
<p>I’m not allowed to register for classes until after I get to campus, and I’ll probably only have like 4 or 5 days before classes start to get all my books. I might just end up buying it from my University book store, as that seems to be the easiest way…
I’m sure your professors will understand if you don’t have the book for a few days (you can borrow someone else’s and make copies…some people don’t even bother buying books, they just copy the whole thing…isn’t that illegal?)</p>