Where to get cheap books?

Jumbosox
Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:11:52 +0000

There’s a textbook buy/sell classified thing on tuftslife, some textbooks are in the library and can just be checked out if you can get your hands on them first. (I did that for one class).

also, by the second semester you’re going to have a lot of friends who might have taken the class the last semester, they can lend or sell it to you at better than bookstore rates for both parties.
I knew a girl who would buy the books from the bookstore and order from Amazon at the same time, and then return the bookstore ones within the first week when you can still get full price back, just as the amazon ones were arriving.
Finally, you need to be able to grin and bear it. Really expensive textbooks have always been a major part of college costs… just like tupac said, “that’s just the way it is.”