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Cheapest College Bookstore?

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  1. MiddleMan

    MiddleMan Member

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    Only new, so far amazon is the cheapest. With free Prime for college students. Any other sites?
     
    #1 MiddleMan, Jan 10, 2011
  2. Xerobull

    Xerobull ...and I'm all out of bubblegum
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    Half.com is good as well.
     
    #2 Xerobull, Jan 10, 2011
  3. Ricksmith

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    Half.com. I used to use dealoz.com, which is a site that searches for the cheapest price until I realized that half.com was always the cheapest. Used to use chegg.com also to rent em for cheap, but half.com has them cheaper most of the time, and you keep the book.
     
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  4. MiddleMan

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    Good deal, I'm planning to resell them for a quarter of the price or even give it away to the next student. So they can avoid the local college bookstore used prices :eek: . Since my employer will reimburse me for up to 4k a year.
     
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    Not a retailer, but always the first place to go.....Craigslist
     
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    chegg.com
     
    #6 magnomonkey, Jan 10, 2011
  7. Dubious

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    Why don't colleges have e-reader text books?

    Hell, You-tube lectures.
     
    #7 Dubious, Jan 10, 2011
  8. thegary

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    i'm sure, down the road, all textbooks will be available for e-readers. helluva lot better than lugging books all over campus.
     
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    I used to buy the international versions of my college textbooks from www.abebooks.com. They are usually only in black and white, soft cover, and made from cheap paper, but they were exact copies. They were also half the price.
     
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    Illegally download them as PDFs
     
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    lmao this
     
    #11 mosessmalone, Jan 10, 2011
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    I remember I used to buy them through Barnes and Noble USED and then through Amazon USED. I saved a ton of money for myself and for Mrs. SwoLy during our college years. :eek: I used to try the local Half Price Books but now I don't need to. They had some, but not all. The new ones weren't there... they usually had old used ones.
    That would work if the new ones were on PDF and if you could take the PDF with you to class. :eek:
     
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    I got mine from here last semester: http://www.bookrenter.com/

    You're just renting the book, not buying them, so it's much cheaper. The process is simple and I'd use them again.
     
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    I use chegg and is it was awesome
     
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    I did a digital book a few semesters back. The ability to search the book was awesome.
     
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    I have credit at chegg, so if anyone wants, they can pay me and I can order the book.
     
    #16 keeyanballa08, Jan 10, 2011
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    How does Amazon know you're a College student to give you free prime? Just finished my free subscription and it was great; I don't want to drop 80 bones though.
     
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    Yeah but where can you find them now? Textbook torrents was great but got shut down.
     
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  20. Lil Pun

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    This is true, as long as it is an actual digital copy and not a scanned copy. CourseSmart has a huge selection of these.
     
    #20 Lil Pun, Jan 10, 2011
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