Here's a tip for the broke college kid: buy your textbooks online. I'm not talking about the quarterly old way; I'm talking one part at a time delivered in .pdf format.
Why would you want a part at a time? You get your syllabus at the starting of the semester, which tells you the required chapters for the semester. Just think about it - how often do you honestly go straight through an whole textbook?
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I concept about buying the books, scanning the chapters I needed, then returning the books, but there's no way I would have manually scanned hundreds of pages. Ebooks also came to mind, as they should be economy than a hard copy, so I went to looking.
Eventually I came across iChapters.com. The thing I liked best is that they offer lots of books and you can buy private chapters! My Math 190 textbook ran me 0 used at my local bookstore, and we were only using 8 chapters. I looked on iChapters and compared the price of the private chapters at .99 each- a total of .92 for the 8 chapters I needed. Purchasing only the chapters I needed saved me about 41% off the price of a used book at the local bookstore.
The chapters aren't some washed out, scanned Pos .pdf's, they are honestly high capability Ocr scans, which means you can Ctrl+F and quest the documents. That's a godsend while homework and studying, much best than flipping aimlessly straight through pages. iChapters also offer a free download of the first part of a book as a preview.
However, there's one thing that I hate - the protection of the .pdf. If you want to passage your material, you must login straight through the website and install (or authenticate through) their anti-piracy software. You cannot open the .pdf's unless you have an internet connection, nor can you view the chapters and print them to a .pdf or .ps file. I wish I could view the .pdf's offline without having to install any software, but that's just what they have to do to protect their content.
If you want to save Lots of money, then buying only the chapters you need will definitely do so. You might not find all your books on iChapters, but it's definitely worth it even if you can find just one. The more money for pizza and beer, the best :)
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