#cheap textbooks

[btblv]

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[mercurys-study-blog]

Just a reminder that ThriftBooks is literally a life saver when it comes to textbooks! Literally saved over $1000 on a psych textbook, $15 on geography, $36 on art app., $129 on genetics and $105 on evolution. Roughly $1300 I didnt have to spend on books.

Not to mention, they have a reading rewards program! Once you stack enough points up you qualify for a free book!

[smallblanketfort]

cheap and free textbooks so you can spend your money on things like food + soft kleenex

in honor of my return to university and inevitable poverty, here is a list of textbooks resources that is not outdated, nor a mess. i sorted  and annotated the links, just for you. you’re welcome.

resources marked with an asterisk are links i actually recommend. especially among the free ebooks.... straight up, just use your library instead. i am giving you these resources, but i personally would trust few of them.

in short, i recommend a) googling the title + PDF. do this even if you have a book so you can use command+F to quickly find anything b) buy used c) google the title + chapter for blog posts, notes, and more.

in any case, here are more links to free/cheap textbook resources:

* your local library + its databases and ebooks :)

oh my god come on yall

used textbooks + rentals

* amazon

* halfpricebooks lets you look up multiple textbooks at once + lists by edition

* chegbooks gives you a 21-day refund garuntee which is dope bc it allows you to find out whether or not the textbook is even necessary

* thriftbooks

* alibris

* valore

* abe

* betterworld books donates books and money to literacy programs and grants with every purchase

ask students to buy off them. help a peer out.

price comparison + vendor sites

* amazon

* bookfinder

campusbooks

textsurf

bigwords

free ebooks (i’ll tell you straight up that i would not trust most of these resources if i were you. just go to your library, please.)

* google the title + pdf. i recommend this process even when you have a physical book so you can take advantage of command+F

* gutenberg focuses on older literature, out of copyright

* libertyfund focuses on liberal arts- humanities/politics/philosophy etc

textbook revolution

manybooks uses gutenberg + free self published books

librarygenius

reddit w/ pdf’s and resources

math textbooks

2020ok

audiobookbay offers free audiobooks. (also youtube and spotify!) but here’s the catch: the readers are generally awful.

freebookspot

ebookee

free ebooks

library genesis and other alternatives

free textbooks written by the website’s parent organization

bookboon

openstax via RICE university

other materials to work around a textbook

search subject or book + ‘filetype:ppt’ or ‘filetype:pdf’ for powerpoints or pdfs respectively

blog posts and essays, especially for literature courses 

if you truly truly can’t find a cheaper option, go rent that babe, if you can refrain from highlighting.

then, resell that bitch! have i sold my textbooks half through the semester for concert tickets? yes. have i been scammed by being forced to buy new unbound textbooks that you can’t resell? yes. i will fight whoever decided this shit. pull up. and yet, i’ve also had fucking amazing professors who just posted it all online for us for free. bless up.

any questions?

alright let’s go forth and study for a week and then dissolve into tears.

[yournewapartment]

Is there a way to buy textbooks for college classes at a cheaper price?

Amazon rentals, PDF downloads, renting used books from your campus bookstore… check it out! @rudescience had a popular post about how to get textbook downloads, check it out!– Mimi

[sumamitt]

For those of you who want cheap college textbooks without having to sort through sketchy sites that are more likely to give your computer a virus than have an ebook version of your textbook, I recommend textbookrush.com valorebooks.com sccbooks.com and basic google to find your textbook

[psyduckstudies]

Free textbooks ft my study problems

Are you dedicated or crazy when you get two new textbooks on subjects you don’t even have classes for and reading that instead of doing actual homework...

Mood. I currently downloaded a free pdf for American Government and Intro to Forensics and Criminal Psychology just because. 

I will be studying instead of writing an English paper simply because I find this more interesting and useful for deciding if I want to do this in the future. There’s also no forensic/criminal psych course in my college. 

Free textbook pdfs: 

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/ 

I found a 2017 copy of the intro to forensics and criminal psych on here and it works. omg, i wish i had this website sooner. You can find more literally almost any textbook on here than any other in my opinion. 

College is expensive enough, don’t overpay for textbooks too. 

[etudier-avec-bella]

How to complete University reading lists without going bankrupt

Okay, so I know that I am DEFINITELY not the only person who is shocked by how expensive all of the book on university reading lists seem to be. This has made super-curricular reading very difficult, as a lot of the non-fiction books range between £6.99-£9.99, and recommended textbooks can be anywhere from £24.99 upwards (no joke 😭). So, in light of my recent journey to read literally anything that has any relevance to my future degree at all- here is a list of four websites that can make that a bit more accessible!

1. eBay

Trusty old eBay! If you’re looking for cheap, early-edition textbooks to have a nose through in order to decide if your chosen subject is the right thing for you, then eBay is very useful. There are LOADS of cheap undergraduate textbooks available secondhand (or even new, if you’re lucky) for a lot less than their original price. Love a good bargain, I do.

2. worldofbooks

Slightly more trustworthy- no offense, eBay. Worldofbooks is a wonderful secondhand-book website! They have a wide variety of genres, and are especially useful for non-fictional reading that may crop up on reading lists. I ordered my copies of “The Selfish Gene’” and “The Disappearing Spoon” from here, and although a bit dusty, they were in tip-top condition. Except for one rather interesting message on the inside cover of “The Selfish Gene”: “THERE IS NO GOD!! ... merry christmas. x”

Honestly, I think it just adds to the charm, so I keep it in there for a giggle every time I open it to read. But please consider this wonderful website if you’re after any novels/plays/non-fiction for any reading lists. Delivery is FREE in the UK!

3. Book Depository

Book Depository is a bit unlike the others here, as some books are still full-priced. However, after briefly scanning the “Science and Geography” category, at least 90% of the books have been reduced from their RRP. Which is fab if you’re looking for something that’s still fairly mainstream/recently released, but at a lower price. Oh, and did I mention that they offer free worldwide delivery?

4. A Great Read

Yayyy for independent companies! This website is a small, family-run book business based in the UK, and similarly to Book Depository, almost everything has been reduced from the RRP, including fairly recent additions. Also, this one offers FREE UK delivery and returns. Sweet!

(... Also, despite being somewhat illegal, you can find a PDF of pretty much any textbook, play, novel, or non-fictional resource you fancy online now. So if all else fails and you’re really strapped for cash at the moment, do this!)

[the-mad-grad-blog]

   As we enter the second and final half of the 2017-2018 school year I’m sure some of you have textbooks you need to buy, so here are some tips I use to make book shopping a little cheaper.

   To start ditch the bookstore if you can, the university bookstore is a scam. Books are often priced higher in university bookstores whether it be a new, used or a rental book. With some books, you may have no choice but to buy them at the bookstore (books with online-specific components or faculty published books as an example) but if you don’t need to buy it from the bookstore don’t, you can most likely find it cheaper somewhere else.

Finding the right price

   A great tool is a textbook search engine; my favorite is Slug books, it’s the only one I use and trust (I’m sure there’s more out there). Basically, what Slug books and other textbook search engines do is compare book prices across multiple websites like Amazon, eBay, and textbooks.com. I prefer Slug books because the site also gives you info about renting the books and selling them back (which I’ll come back to in a future post!). Once you go on to Slug books it’s pretty easy, you just type in the ISBN, title, or author of the text you're looking for; from there you can compare prices from different platforms all at once to find the best price. If you don’t want to use Slug books there are tons of other sites where you can find good books at great prices, my go-to sites are Amazon and Thrift Books.

Finding the right book

   This is where you will need to put in time and effort finding the best price and condition, I never buy books under “fair condition” and luckily every used book I’ve purchased has been in good to excellent condition. I’ve even gotten books that were brand new that were listed as used! Now Amazon can be tricky because there can be multiple sellers of a used text so this is the rule I follow, I buy from sellers with multiple sells, positive customer reviews (over 90%) and from sellers who provide detailed descriptions of the condition of the book I’m purchasing.

   So, with all that in mind here’s an example for you! I’m taking an osteology lab this semester, my university has the required text listed for the following prices: new is $42.00, used $31.50 and the rental was $27.30. Now for this specific text, I skipped Slug Books and went straight to Amazon and Thrift Books. On Amazon, it was listed for 34.57 new and 23.99 used including shipping. The used books I looked at ranged from good to acceptable condition, not satisfied I went to Thrift Books and found the book in great condition for 21.05 (Thrift Books offers free shipping after you spend $10!). The book I received was in excellent condition with no highlighting or marks in the pages, the only sign of previous ownership is a slight bend in the front cover (which will probably flatten after a couple weeks pressed in-between other books in my bag). Through Thrift books, I got a book in great almost new condition for half of what I would’ve paid at the university bookstore.

    This semester I needed a total of 3 books if I shopped exclusively in the university bookstore for new books my total would’ve been $169.00, or 126.75 if I bought used books, but with the 2 books I purchased on Thrift Books and one book on Amazon my total came to $78.77. Compared to the used book price at the university store I saved $47.98, but once again the books I received were in excellent condition so I compare it to the prices of new books because the books I received were basically new, bringing my total savings to $90.23.

Happy shopping