Purchasing Textbooks? Best ways/cheapest?

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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. :crying2: 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

Specializes in Pediatrics, Cardiology, ER.

Thank you for the additional shopping ideas. I have been using Amazon and Half.com to find books.

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.

I second bigwords.com. It makes it so much easier to compare pricing. I use to go to all the discount sites to check pricing myself but now bigwords does it for me! :-)

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