Help with ordering textbooks online

[duragezic]

I start freshman year in college in a week and today is the day where I can goto the bookstore to get my books. I already got the list of the books I need (name, author, edition) and I searched the forums for some places to get them. Addall.com seems the best.

But there's some many different editions and choices, I'm not sure if I got the right ISBN numbers. I looked them all up for more info but I have yet to confirm if ANY of the numbers I have are right. They just never give the editions for the ones I need.

I suppose I could go to the bookstore today to get the numbers, but still I'm not sure if that would leave enough time to get my books in the mail, since they wouldn't ship till a day or two later...

 

[iamwiz82]

go back to the bookstore and get the ISBN. It is the easiest way to do it.

 

[brunswickite]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
go back to the bookstore and get the ISBN. It is the easiest way to do it.

yup the best method is that

 

The damn greedy bookstores in Ann Arbor have counters set up so you can't get to the books now - so basically, they're preventing people from getting ISBNs. People make me so mad...and it forces me to get sneaky in order to get the ISBNs. I tell them I'm thinking about taking the class and I want to see the book to see if I like it.

 

[cessna152]

http://bestbookdeal.com/

Best site ever!

 

[Savij]

My campus bookstore accepted returns up to the last day to change your classes (1.5 weeks after classes started). So I would buy the books from the campus store, making sure not to open the wrapped ones. Then when I get home I would immediately go look the books up by their ISBNs. The ones I found for cheaper online I would return and keep the others.

Last semester my book bill went from ~500 to 175.

Oh yeah, I used bestbookbuys.com to find them, and most of my books were from half.com and amazon's used books.

-SS