And you may have come to the Library, hoping the textbook is there for you to check out the whole semester?
Well, it doesn't work that way. First of all, your instructor has to put the textbook on Reserve. If they do not do so, we do not have it. The Library does not purchase textbooks on its own--we do not have an annual budget to buy them as is. Second of all, when the textbook is on Reserve, you're asking for a checkout time of 1 hour, most often, because as you can imagine, many students may need it as well. With 1 hour, you will most often need to photocopy many pages, at 10 cents per page, and that adds up.
So most often, you WILL have to purchase your own textbooks.
But maybe you can find them at a cheaper price?
The New York Times recently documented a number of sites in this article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/fashion/30Cyber.html?th&emc=th
It lists a number of sites. And especially encourages comparison shop sites, such as:
Bookfinder: http://www.bookfinder.com/textbooks/
A couple of other comparison sites are:
Direct Textbook: http://www.directtextbook.com/
and AddAll: http://www.addall.com/
Hope you find some TRUE bargains!
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http://www.BIGWORDS.com/ is the best because it is a price comparison site - so they bring all textbook stores together in one place, they calculate shipping and coupons on multiple book orders and figure out the cheapest possible total price for your textbooks. I've been using them for 6 semesters and have consistently saved over $200 per semester.
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