AAh! Textbooks....take a lung and a kidney for payment.

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I just bought my books for next semester and I barely got out of there with both of my legs(but I had to sell a kidney and my left lung in order to cover the bill). :eek: Ofcourse, I'm not serious but you get my point. How can colleges justify such Ridiculous prices for books? It seems so easy to spend thousands of dollars on books nowadays. I guess I'm just venting, but also curious if anyone can explain why they are so expensive. I understand that books are vital in order to be successful throughout one's college career but still. What does everyone else think? Are you ok with the prices or not? Let me know...

Specializes in Home Care.

Any book I do not intend to keep I rent from Chegg. Next semester I have statistics and a humanties class. I will rent both books for huge savings.

Used books are great if you find the edition you need and it gets shipped on time. Or you can buy books from students in classes ahead of you.

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Specializes in Junior Year of BSN.

Go to Dealoz.com, it includes coupons, or chambal.com and put the ISBN in, it will search for the cheapest books available for a bunch of websites *including chegg and other rental and ebook sites*.

Dealoz has a price alert thing where you put the price you want to pay on a book and it will email you an alert once a book is at that price so you can pay for it, hope you have a blackberry or Iphone so you can get that price since if you wait to long on the alerts someone WILL grab it.

I saved $389 compared to paying the bookstore for next semester. I only have nursing classes next semester so I saved a BUNCH of money and I am keeping all my books since we have to have them throughout our BSN program.

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Specializes in Med Surg, Cardiac.

I will be starting the nursing program in January and there are nine thick expensive books that are required. My book allowance doesn't cover the whole cost and I was starting to worry if I can afford the remaining books because I am a single parent and don't have much money to spare. Someone was nice enough to sell me their brand new fundamentals book to me for $40. :D After two days, she calls to give me four more books that I needed for free! That saved me a good $600 so now I am able to get all of my books. I am forever grateful to this person :bowingpur

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Specializes in ER, ICU, Education.

I would also see if you can get any of the books either from your library or on interlibrary loan. I did this throughout nursing school and paid a total of $200 for all my books. Almost all could be checked out from the library. Of course, this was before the days of amazon.....

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Specializes in Progressive, Intermediate Care, and Stepdown.

Thanks for all the tips. I will definitely keep them in mind for the future

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Yeah, buying online is definatley the way to go as opposed to the bookstore, but the best solution is to buy books from students in classes ahead of you if at all possible. It's sometimes hard to find students with the books you want though. But, there is a website called Boycott The Bookstore that is meant for people to post the books they want to sell to other classmates so you can make on campus trades. It's new, so there aren't many posts yet, but check it out, add your books, you never know how quickly it can take off and save you tons!

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