where can i find the cheapest textbooks?

saturninus
Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:09:23 +0000

The way to get things cheapest:

First, don’t buy anything in advance. I thought I was smart, buying textbooks on Amazon during the summer before I got there; half the textbooks I bought I didn’t need, because they only had ‘recommended’ supplementary material. Don’t go looking to buy anything until the professor explicitly says it’s needed.

Keep in mind, often textbooks are packaged with online subscriptions that are required… a clever way to force you to use the local book system.

Things are cheap at the Illini Book Exchange (hxxp://www.illinibookexchange.com/); I would look there first. After that, I’d look on Amazon.

As a last resort, I’d go to one of the three bookstores in Chambana… they’re all roughly the same price.