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seank80
Don't Taze My Dog Bro!!
Member since 5/07 2240 total posts
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Sean
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First Grad Class this Semester where to buy books?
So I am all signed up for my first grad class. I went to go look at the book. It's 156 dollars for the book what the hell gives. Where do most people buy books these days. I used to just buy them on campus but at 156 I am open to suggestions. I have the ISBN number but have never ordered books online. Please let me know as we have numerous highly educated people on these boards. BTW it has been 3 and a half years since I finished by Bachelors. So I am a bit weary about getting back into the books. 
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Posted 8/29/07 2:09 PM  |
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BobBsWife
No more school= too much time!
Member since 5/05 1395 total posts
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Tracy
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Re: First Grad Class this Semester where to buy books?
bigwords.com
this will give you all the prices from different websites.
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| Posted 8/29/07 2:09 PM |
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Emily
Kasey & Me! Lurves it!
Member since 7/06 8703 total posts
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STBHC
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Re: First Grad Class this Semester where to buy books?
amazon
My business law textbook retails for $120 and I got it on amazon for $25
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| Posted 8/29/07 2:10 PM |
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seank80
Don't Taze My Dog Bro!!
Member since 5/07 2240 total posts
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Sean
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Re: First Grad Class this Semester where to buy books?
Posted by Emily
amazon
My business law textbook retails for $120 and I got it on amazon for $25
Thanks it's 115 there. Is there a way to check and make sure it's the most current version?
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| Posted 8/29/07 2:13 PM |
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Emily
Kasey & Me! Lurves it!
Member since 7/06 8703 total posts
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STBHC
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Re: First Grad Class this Semester where to buy books?
On amazon it tells you the author and version when you do a search. They also tell you the condition, location it ships from and price.
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| Posted 8/29/07 2:18 PM |
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seank80
Don't Taze My Dog Bro!!
Member since 5/07 2240 total posts
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Sean
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Re: First Grad Class this Semester where to buy books?
Posted by Emily
On amazon it tells you the author and version when you do a search. They also tell you the condition, location it ships from and price.
Thank you very much. I just checked bigwords.com and it's also much cheaper there. I will be going with one of the two.
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| Posted 8/29/07 2:23 PM |
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Waste06
Waste not, want not
Member since 6/06 7219 total posts
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Lois Mom Mommy Mama Ma
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Re: First Grad Class this Semester where to buy books?
I got bought and sold my text books using half.com when I was in grad school.
If you do have to buy a book at the bookstore and pay full price, look into selling it on half.com after the semester ends. You'll probably get more for it online than you would if you sold it back to the bookstore.
Congrats on going back to school!
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| Posted 8/29/07 2:55 PM |
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SummerMom
Now a mom of 2!
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Re: First Grad Class this Semester where to buy books?
I second the reccommendation for half.com. Also, remember when you're looking on Amazon that they have used books there too on "Amazon Marketplace" - sometimes you'll have a good find on there.
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| Posted 8/29/07 3:30 PM |
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SweetTooth
I'm a tired mommy!
Member since 12/05 20105 total posts
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Lauren
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Re: First Grad Class this Semester where to buy books?
Posted by BobBsWife
bigwords.com
this will give you all the prices from different websites.
Ihave used them many times. Definitely recommend them.
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| Posted 8/29/07 3:32 PM |
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nov04libride
big brother <3
Member since 5/05 14672 total posts
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Me
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Re: First Grad Class this Semester where to buy books?
What's the book? I know there were people on here trying to sell old grad books!
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| Posted 8/29/07 3:35 PM |
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evnme
My little lamb
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aka momma2b
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Re: First Grad Class this Semester where to buy books?
www.addall.com
www.ecampus.com
www.half.com
www.isbn.nu
www.alibris.com
www.abebooks.com
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| Posted 8/29/07 4:33 PM |
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kmac
Two under two!
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Kris
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Re: First Grad Class this Semester where to buy books?
I got my text for half the price at amazon.com.
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| Posted 8/29/07 4:45 PM |
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LightUpOurLife
Totally in love
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Bonnie-Jean
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Re: First Grad Class this Semester where to buy books?
half.com
It's run by ebay I believe.
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| Posted 8/29/07 4:52 PM |
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4monkeys
boys will be boys =)
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Re: First Grad Class this Semester where to buy books?
everyone gave all the great websites.
one semester my prof told us to feel free to buy the previous version if it was much cheaper since there were so few changes from one version to another. (they usually flip around the chapters to confuse you when they change versions  ) but I thought that was SO cool of this professor 
It was a high demand book and we got the previoous version for SO much less.
another time, the prof told us not to bother buying it  and instead preferred we bought other books requested by him. (several small books, as opposed to a textbook)
so many teachers have their own comments on what to do about readings, so I sometimes waited til the first class, esp if it was a $150 book.
some small books we only did a few readings in, and the entire class got library copies.
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| Posted 8/29/07 5:03 PM |
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