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Suggestions On How To Save Money on Books

This page contains some great ideas for how to save money on college textbooks. Before you dismiss any of these ideas, keep reading. We include ideas on how to save money and still keep all the material handy for future classes.

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Save Money By Renting Your Textbooks

By renting your textbooks instead of purchasing them, you can save a LOT of money. But what if you need the material in the book for later classes but you don't want to copy everything into your notes? Here is the key: buy a previous edition of the book also. Sometimes, you can get the previous edition for as little as $10. Then, while you have the rented book, go through the previous edition at the same time and take notes on any differences. Usually, there will be very few changes, maybe chapter numbering or order, minor corrections and some different exercises. But the point is, you will have all the subject material that you need without the expense. Here are some great places to find rental textbooks. [We include Amazon textbook purchases here since you can sell your book back to Amazon, which is similar to renting it.] Save Money By Buying Online or eBooks Buying your textbooks online is a great way to save money over buying them from your campus bookstore. I, personally, purchased about$400 worth of books one semester in graduate school for about $75. So I know this works. The thing you have to keep in mind is to decide on your classes and buy early. One of those textbooks that I bought came from China but it was so cheap and I knew for sure that I was going to take the class that I purchased it about 3 weeks before classes started. However, not all shipping takes that long. So even if the semester has already started, you can still order them online. Another idea is that, if you don't need a paper copy of the book, you can sometimes get an electronic copy, like for a Kindle, for much less. Check with your instructor first to see if that is okay with them. Here are some suggestions on where to buy textbooks online. Buying used will also save you a lot. Here is another idea. Try to buy only the chapters you need. In addition to these links, check the website of your textbook publisher to see if they offer the purchase of individual chapters. Save Money By Sharing In A Study Group Okay, so the ideas so far seem pretty obvious. You may have already thought of those. But here is one that you may not have thought of. Form a study group and buy one copy of the textbook, the current edition required by the instructor. Then, share the book by deciding on a length of time for each person in the group to use the book, so that each person gets the book for at least one day a week. Then, each person individually purchase a previous edition of the same book. You can sometimes get a previous edition for as little as$10.

Then, while you have the current edition, go through and compare the pages for that week with your previous edition and note any changes either in the previous edition itself or in your notes.

Things To Remember - - Make sure to get the current edition to the next person after you like you agreed to, so they can use it. Think about what it would feel like if the person before you didn't get the book to you in time and how that would set you back. Make sure to select people for your study group that you know and can trust to keep their word and won't lose the book you are sharing. Check with your instructor to make sure this is okay. I have known instructors that require you to bring your textbook to use in exams and having a previous edition may not work.

Here are the best places I've found to get previous editions of books.

The bottom line is that you are not tied in to buy your book at the school bookstore. Other options include buying a used book from a friend who took the class a previous semester. Find out what the bookstore is buying books for and offer your friend a little more. Both of you will save money this. Be creative.

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When looking for supplemental books, here are a few things to consider.
1. Do not purchase any book that has the word dummy or idiot or a similar derogatory word in the title. You are none of those and reading a book with that kind of title is not what you want to be telling yourself. Little by little, whether you mean to or not, you will start believing that you are those things and that will make learning math even more difficult.

2. Look for books with lots of worked out practice problems, not with just answers.

3. Before buying a book, take a few minutes and look through the pages. Make sure the notation is similar to what you have in your current textbook. Unfortunately, there are usually several ways to write math and you need a reference book that is similar so that you don't have to learn two types of notation. Not always, but sometimes, other countries will use different notation. So watch out for that.

4. When using a reference book, make sure you follow the notation in your textbook and what your instructor uses, not what is in the supplemental books, if it is different. This is because anyone can write a supplemental textbook but there are reasons that schools choose textbooks and teachers expect higher standards. The supplemental book may not even use correct notation which could trip you up and cause you to lose points if you follow their example.