When should we buy books?

Colleges & Universities University of Connecticut
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<p>I was wondering if we should purchase books now from the co-op website or wait until we have our first day of classes to see what books we definitly need.</p>

<p>If you buy the books a couple of days before, or the day of classes, will all of them still be available?</p>

<p>I would buy my books now, but I only can find new versions of calc and chemistry on the co-op ‘books-to-go’ website. English, intro to engineering, and a INTD freshman course are not listed on the website.</p>

<p>There are not even used options for the calc and chemistry books, and I don’t have the money to spend $500 on new books.</p>

<p>My class list is this</p>

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<p>Also, math and chem do not have my instructors listed…</p>

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<p>I have heard that some students rent their textbooks.</p>

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<p>I used Chegg.com, which is awesome because A) you don’t have to worry about selling the books back (which becomes a terrible ordeal as soon as a new edition is printed), and B) Chegg plants a tree for every single book you rent. You can ship the books back for free in the same box they came in. I found the prices to be about $10-$30 dollars cheaper per book. I admit, I don’t know if I’ll necessarily need ALL the books I got, but for $250, I’m very happy.</p>

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<p>Any idea what happens if your assigned something on the first day/week of classes and still don’t have your text books? Because of this wouldn’t it make sense to get text books before class’s begin?</p>