| If you are heading back to school, you are probably | | | | option for you to spend your energy, effort or time |
| going to face the expensive task of having to buy | | | | on. |
| college textbooks. I remember as a starting | | | | Today we have the internet which brings all the |
| freshman on my college campus the first thing I had | | | | college textbooks together in one place and allows |
| to spend my money on was my college books. | | | | you to get them for up to 90% cheaper than the |
| After getting my book list for each of the classes I | | | | prices of your campus bookstore. I recommend you |
| went over to the campus bookstore to purchase my | | | | do a search online and look for these traits that'll help |
| textbooks. Once there I noted the price of each of | | | | you buy college books at great prices: |
| my required books and realized I was going to need | | | | Buy College Books Tip 1: |
| much more money than I anticipated. | | | | Make sure they website has the ability to let you |
| I quickly called a friend who told me to ask the | | | | search textbooks by name AND ISBN. Some |
| professor if there was an older version of the book | | | | textbooks have similar names and unless you double |
| he might want to sell or get rid off and if the | | | | check the ISBN's you may be purchasing a different |
| professor didn't, to try to find out other students | | | | textbook then the one you intended to buy. |
| who had taken the class and persuade them to sell | | | | Buy College Books Tip 2: |
| their used college books to me. | | | | Decide if you really want to buy college books or |
| What a time-consuming task that turned out to be! | | | | rent them. If you don't feel it is necessary to buy |
| Not to mention an exercise in futility. I quickly learned | | | | them, renting them might be a better option. Make |
| that most of the class instructors had gotten rid of | | | | sure you check out the sites that offer the best |
| their old textbooks and that most of the students | | | | rental prices. |
| who had taken the class wanted just as much for | | | | Buy College Books Tip 3: |
| their books as they had paid for them originally. One | | | | Before completing the order online add up all the |
| guy wanted $25 more for his. He said the notes he'd | | | | handling fees and shipping charges and make sure |
| written inside the pages made the textbook more | | | | you are not being charged extra. Sometimes the |
| valuable. | | | | checkout forms may automatically charge for |
| Look, if you happen to find a previous student with | | | | over-night delivery when you may be fine if the |
| and older version or a professor willing to lend you his | | | | college textbooks get to you in a week. Don't pay |
| textbook, that's great. I just don't think it is the best | | | | for extra shipping fees if you don't need them. |