cost of books this expensive??

I got most of my prereq books on craigs list...big help.

There is a really good website called finderscheapers.com and will give you a rundown of the cheapest cost for the books that you are looking for. It includes all the normal websites you would go to when looking for textbooks (i.e. amazon, b&n etc, half.com, etc.). Except it doesn't include Craigslist. And I know this may sound bad, but for software, maybe you should try bit torrents. These companies make enough money as it is, and forget that we are students... and strapped for cash! Good luck!!!!

I checked out Findercheapers.com yesterday. A huge help, chopped another $150 off my total in much less time than if I had done all of the searches on my own. Thanks!

Consider your self luck.y. For the BSN program I have eye on the one of the first classes has a txtbook price of $500+ and there is still 4 classes. But I will see it as an investment...... towards the next 40yrs of my life.

Check out the website www.fetchbook.info This website is a search engine of all the websites like ebay, amazon, half, etc. and it finds the cheapest price available online for that book. You can search books by keyword, title, author, and isbn #. This website has saved me alot of money. This is a website every college student should know regardless of their majors!

You can rent your books on chegg.com it's a life saver you can rent them for the entire semester for like 1/3 of the cost. It cut down my intro to nursing book cost down to like 120 bucks for everything.

I took Intro to nursing last fall at a 4 yr school and the cost of used books from the bookstore was about $450. I purchased all 7 books from amazon.com brand new for $250. We also had to purchase a nursing kit which was I believe $145

Amazon had the Fundamentals of Nursing book for like $68 brand new. The book store was charging I believe $125.

Out of the 7 books we were REQUIRED to buy, I only used 1...The Fundamentals of Nursing book!

Now, I have to take fundamentals of nursing over and pharmacology starting Aug 17th since I'm at a different school. We are required to purchase a bundle of books for my pharmacology class...would you believe the bundle is like $245...for 3 books! Ridiculous!!!

I guess we really shouldn't complain though...textbooks for medical school are like $800 for ONE book!

I recommend purchasing the books from either amazon.com or half.com...they seem to have the best deals. Or you could try like a local bookstore in your hometown that sells and buys back college textbooks.

Good luck to everyone!

My books are costing me $500 for my first semester of nursing class. Most of them are used and only two are new. I consider myself lucky thought it was going to be more. Although we do use most of these books throughout the program.

$245 for three books?! Haha that's the amount I am paying for just my Spanish class, for 1 book! My anatomy class alone is over $300 for 2!