Confused About Books!!!

Paerra
Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:17:01 +0000

Wait until classes start to get your books. At that time, you should use Illini Book Exchange (it’s like Craigslist, but for UIUC textbooks), and you’ll save a lot of money.

Don’t buy used textbooks directly from the bookstore, unless you like throwing away money.

Another good reason to wait until classes begin: you’ll be able to determine whether or not you actually NEED to buy the book. Seriously, there are some textbooks that the professors want you to buy, but that you never read from, and from which test questions are never based on. I can think of at least TWO books I bought which I never opened (and still got As in the classes).