Purchasing Textbooks? Best ways/cheapest?

[cherokeesummer]

So we all know the horrors of buying textbooks, just wondering where do you get yours?

Last term I got mine online at Barnes and Noble because Hubby and I don't have credit cards so I got a BN giftcard at the store and then used it online to get the books (they were cheaper than in the store).

This term I have no money for a bn card so what I'm finding myself having to do is buy piece mail. I ordered one book last week because I had just enough money for one. I have one more paycheck before school starts again so I will have to order one more then and then the rest will have to wait or I will have to get from the library. I'm startin a new job and I don't know my paydates there. It is a lower paying job too so that will be even harder. :angryfire

Hubby is getting ready to start an apprenticeship so hopefully he will get that in time for me to buy a few more. Why oh why do books have to be so expensive!

Thanks for letting me vent! Where do you get your books?!

PS - some other places I've used over the years are:

Walmart.com

Amazon.com

half.com

[rn undisclosed name]

If you need any Lippincott (or Stedman) books you get a 10% discount when you sign up with them. The website is: http://www.lww.com and you get free shipping too.

I compared this against many other places and it saved me more money.

[jaymee77]

allbookstores.com

this site automatically searched out the lowest prices at lots of different sites/ check it out!

i love this site!!!!

Jaymee

[jzprple]

I just got my booklist today and my school also said we would need the APA handbook. I'm w/ you...can't I just buy an older edition for a few bucks and look up changes online? and surely we won't use it enough that I couldn't just borrow someones...anyone already in a program that actually used the APA handbook a lot??

thanks...

I got a list of what I will need in September, the required AND the optional, and have already bought 2 on eBay for about 1/2 of what the used ones are at my school bookstore.

Plus, I am NOT buying the optional ones, or at least not all of them. One of the optional ones is an APA handbook. I already have an APA handbook, although not the one they are recommending. I know there are places that APA format can be d/l'd from the net, so I think that is a waste.

I keep wondering if we TRULY need the editions stated, but I am going by the ones they have listed, just in case. Especially for the drug books.

[jzprple]

Also..has anyone bought a book that is being shipped from the UK???? A lot of these sites pop up books that are available but they are outside of the US. Are they the same book? same editions? B/c they are usually way cheaper...

[All_Smiles_RN]

Okay 3 PAGES of discussion about where to buy textbooks and not ONE of you has mentioned that this site has a book store that helps support the site and keep it free!!!!

Come on Guys please mention https://allnurses.com/nursingbooks/

harumph!!!

I had no clue. Thanks, going to check it out right now.

...Jennifer...

[#1rnstudent]

If one is really strapped for textbook cash, one could buddy up with another student in one's class and each share one complete set of textbooks. That way, one person buys half the required readings and the other person buys the other half. Then, they share. Makes for a great study-buddy system, too! :)

[KB1975]

jun 7, '04 by

gwenith

come on guys please mention

nursing: allnurses.com book store: book store for nurses

harumph!!!

i had no idea!!!

[samrusrn]

I heard this was a pretty good site :)

bigwords.com

If any editions can be bought as international edition, do it! I saved a lot of money doing it this way.

[Mrs.Priss]

I got all of mine (minus one I have to purchase in the school bookstore) on amazon.com and half.com $260 for all of them!

[2BRN123]

Go to the bookstore, really LOOK at the books. A lot of them have adjoining web access things that you need the code to use. I sold some of the one time use codes to friends in my classes, as, every website / code thinger that came along with my new book, had the ENTIRE TEXT in an online version.

You can also purchase these e-versions of the text books directly from the publishers at a SUBSTANTIALLY lower cost than buying the hard copy of the book. Many of the websites have neat highlighting and notetaking features and most of the ones I've used/seen were fully printable.

Hope this helps.

[KelRN215, BSN, RN]

Half.com is the way to go.

[FORTHELOVEOF!!!!]

I use dealoz.com, it compares prices of a lot different sites.