<p>yea. me too.</p>
<p>Well… for old ones (they are all pretty much equivalent, the newer ones just have more colorful pictures), just visit the local math undergrad society when they are not doing a booksale. They should have tons of them they received as donations from profs who have no use for them. They might try to sell them but they should be desperate enough to give them away to get rid of them. Back when I was an undergrad, we did use them as doorstops. </p>
<p>Brand new ones are slightly more tricky if you’re a new student, but are not impossible to get. Various publishers send a bunch of copies of brand new calc books to every math department every year in the hope that they’ll get picked as the required books. If you know the prof or TAs giving the course, you might be able to convince one of them to give you a copy of one of the unused editions (though you won’t get the exact book used in the class, you can always photocopy the problem sets off someone else…).</p>
<p>Best option is to buy used books on Amazon or Half.com and then resell them at the end of the semester…I have been doing this since 9th grade and we sometimes even make a profit from a better listing of the book!</p>
<p>wait infront of buy back lines and see if people are selling the books you need. I just got a book for $45 today that they would selll inside the book store for $90 used, they offered the guy $49 but he was nice and gave me a discount</p>
<p>just buy online…much cheaper…i’ve ordered 3 books so far…each cost only $6-7…thats because shipping is $5 lol</p>
<p>cant ever seem to find the books that i need</p>
<p>^^me either!</p>
<p>i tried to buy textbooks on half.com & on amazon, but the prices werent that much less than the used ones @ my school’s bookstore. along with shipping, i would only be saving like $5 or less, so i didnt think it was worth it.</p>
<p>I saved about $250 buying my books off Amazon. :D</p>
<p>… for about a quarter of the books I needed (I bought the rest used from school, for they were cheaper than the used ones on Amazon) and saved about $92.00. </p>
<p>What sucked about Amazon was that the shipping price can get high, especially for the big, heavy books. For several books it was simply easier and not much more expensive to simply buy used from my school bookstore rather than try to get off the net. Also, shipping can take quite awhile, up to three weeks. Buying from the school was faster. </p>
<p>I needed 28 different novels, non-fiction books and textbooks for spring semester. I ended up spending around $350 for books. Which is not too bad, considering… that’s a lot of books.</p>
<p>Hopefully I can resell these books after this semester… I don’t have enough room for ten books in my dorm room, let alone almost thirty… I don’t know where I’ll put them all!</p>