Cheap Textbooks Make Going Back to School Affordable
The job market isn’t too hot in my area, especially if you read or hear all of the doom and gloom. I look at it a little bit differently. It is time to shake yourself up and go back for some training, or to reevaluate your path. That may sound like my rose colored glasses have firmly been welded to my head, but I found there is a choice between accepting reality and devising a strategy, versus letting it depress you.
One of the big expenses about going back for training is the textbooks. Sometimes, the books for a class seemed to cost more than the class! My cousin was even considering renting books to get her through, or sharing them. Sharing doesn’t always work because you don’t get to use them the minute you want to. For most, the alternative is just finding them as cheap as possible. I found that Cheapestextbooks.com has a comparison took to find cheap textbooks on the web. The site doesn’t have every single book that you might need. Universities have a way of publishing a few of their own books for specialized classes that are unique to them. However, I thought of a few titles and most of the supporting or secondary textbooks that I remember having to buy are all there.
Hopefully, someone out there will be helped knowing about this. Shaving a couple hundred dollars off your books could mean being able to afford an extra credit hour or two.
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October 21st, 2009 at 9:37 pm
half.com is also a great place to look. It’s also a good place to sell your books when you’re done with them–often, the $ the bookstore will offer you is such a small fraction of the cost that it would be less of an insult to just keep the book!
Sometimes, even with books the school makes their own version of, if you’re at a large enough university many times there are also off-campus bookstores. I attend Georgia State University, and was able to find a required, Georgia State special edition textbook for less than at GSU’s bookstore at one of their off-campus competitors.
October 22nd, 2009 at 8:22 am
Oh yeah, the rate you get when a school resells your books is crazy. I guess its better than yard sale prices…but still. At the school I went to, there was indeed an off campus bookstore and it saved me a lot of money. In fact, when there was a secondary book a professor wanted us to get, they often would just make sure it was at that bookstore versus the university one. I think because the office of that department was near that bookstore.
I have kept books in the past and not resold them. I have an awesome theater makeup book that I sometimes trot out at Halloween time and a beautiful art book that I kept and still have to this day. Heck, if the book is small and was $75.00 I expect it to be autographed lol.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:40 am
Wow…that for sharing such a useful information…I spend so much for my daughter’s text books. Will surely look into this site.
October 29th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
So very nice of you to share this information…Being able to save on text books is a great relief for people like me.