Cheap Textbooks

[Trevah]

Well after searching forever for a few discounted textbooks I found Alibris.com ...anyhow they seem to have the cheapest softcover (b&w) books...plus i think if you look hard on this page you might find a coupon or two...->http://www.couponcabin.com/coupons/alibris/index.htm

Seems like a good deal for the penny pincher that gets raped by the universities overpriced books....

 

[linuxdave]

Yeah. I'll be using these guys. 37 bucks for my damn math class sure beats the 80 some the college bookstore wanted. Nuts to them.

 

[yougotdeals]

http://www.Alabris.com

 

[UnoSigmaPi]

thanks for the heads up

 

[sohcrates]

just ordered a textbook through them last night. they showed up as a "third party vendor" through barnes and noble's website.

i accidentally chose the slowest shipping though, hope i get it in time. it's a "Black and white international version with the exact same content as the hardcover"....whatever that means. it's literally half what the bookstore wanted though

 

[cheapgoose]

don't forget about addall.com

 

[Falloutboy]

they really need to comeup with digital versions of alot of these books. would be a whole lot easier just bringing around a laptop then 5+ thik text books

 

[VTHodge]

Its been a couple of years, but I used to save a ton of money by ordering from www.amazon.co.uk. At the time they had a coupon for 5 pounds off, which was about equal to shipping costs. To cover the length of shipping time, I just bought books from the bookstore and returned them when my shipment came.

 

[Nick5324]

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[ericlp]

Originally posted by: Falloutboy
they really need to comeup with digital versions of alot of these books. would be a whole lot easier just bringing around a laptop then 5+ thik text books

Good Idea!!!

Yeah just think of all the trees they would save.

Not only that but it would be a lot easier to just go the next rev of a book... There are sooo many different versions of a book just so someone can make a few bucks while our environment suffers.

Oh well.... Notice how the books keep getting bigger? Now you have a reason to buy that Gas HOG SUV ... Not only will you be supporting terrorist but you will need it to carry around all those text books. *TIMBER!!!!!!!!!!!*

 

[YoYoBabyYo]

i purchased the textbooks for my zoology class today. total was around $178 (for one textbook and two lab manuals) the cheapest on half.com for the textbook was $120. i am so sad!

 

[Johnbear007]

i liike nutz

 

[ungsunghero]

Originally posted by: Trevah
Well after searching forever for a few discounted textbooks I found Alabris.com ...anyhow they seem to have the cheapest softcover (b&w) books...plus i think if you look hard on this page you might find a coupon or two...->http://www.couponcabin.com/coupons/alibris/index.htm

Seems like a good deal for the penny pincher that gets raped by the universities overpriced books....

Don't you mean Alibris?

 

[Trevah]

lol my bad....fixed link

 

[berger034]

use campusi.com
the best ever.

 

[dc]

http://www.addall.com/
http://www.anybook4less.com/
http://www.bestwebbuys.com/books/
http://www.bookfinder.com/
http://www.bookpool.com/.x/k4aqfze8o4/ho
http://www.campusi.com/
http://isbn.nu/

 

[TonyG]

May have to do some searching on these sites for books, and return some of the ones I bought at the campus bookstore, for a total of $479.xx.

 

[konakona]

a stupid question : how do these places compare to half.com? my only gripe with them is their shipping takes quite long (USPS media mail). thx for the links btw

 

[MaStAViC]

AWESOME thread! My first day of university classes for this semester (my third in college) starts in a few hours.. lol (speaking of that, I gotta go get some sleep!).

Originally posted by: ericlpNot only that but it would be a lot easier to just go the next rev of a book... There are sooo many different versions of a book just so someone can make a few bucks while our environment suffers.

That's not the main reason why that have newer editions and such. I'd go on but I gotta go get some sleep and I'm sure Google.com has your answers =P

-=MaStA ViC

 

[MaStAViC]

Originally posted by: VanillaH
a stupid question : how do these places compare to half.com? my only gripe with them is their shipping takes quite long (USPS media mail). thx for the links btw

I say try all of them. I usually compare half.com to amazon.com and usually amazon.com turns out to be better for me.
-=MaStA ViC

Edit: Sorry for the double post. Dunno what I was thinking...

 

[VietDude]

Nice, something i'll definitely use...

 

[BigJimbo]

Originally posted by: dc
http://www.addall.com/
http://www.anybook4less.com/
http://www.bestwebbuys.com/books/
http://www.bookfinder.com/
http://www.bookpool.com/.x/k4aqfze8o4/ho
http://www.campusi.com/
http://isbn.nu/

http://www.fetchbook.info/

that site is the google search for books...Hits all the sites and gives the lowest out of them all

 

[fleshconsumed]

Nice thread, saved myself a couple a lot of money with it, however I would not deal with alibris.com I searched for a book and it showed one used copy available, I tried to add it to a cart and got the following message "We're sorry, another customer just purchased that item. We've selected another available copy of that title for you." Items in stock - zero. OOOOOOOK.... closed the browser, opened alibris again, searched once more - what do you know - one used book available, tried to add it to a cart again and got the same message that somebody else just bought it. Repeated the process third time just to make sure - yep, the same result...

In short: scumbags...

 

[DXM]

Originally posted by: BigJimbo

Originally posted by: dc
http://www.addall.com/
http://www.anybook4less.com/
http://www.bestwebbuys.com/books/
http://www.bookfinder.com/
http://www.bookpool.com/.x/k4aqfze8o4/ho
http://www.campusi.com/
http://isbn.nu/

http://www.fetchbook.info/

that site is the google search for books...Hits all the sites and gives the lowest out of them all

Nice site, thanks BigJimbo!

 

[MasterChief]

Also check out:

http://www.cheapassstudents.com/booksearch.php
http://www.allbookstores.com