Since buying books for college can be quite expensive, here are my tips.
- Do not buy your books new.
- Do not buy your books until after the first day of class. The list may be wrong.
- Do not buy your books from a college bookstore. The discounts can be even greater online.
- Amazon has a Prime Student program for free 2-day shipping.
- Check the university library to see which books they have available to borrow.
- Some books are available as class reserve to check out for a couple of hours in the library. Good for doing readings.
- Many textbooks are available through the university online either to read online or download by chapter or complete text.
While paper is great, ebooks offer some good features for academic reading.
- Round trip footnotes
- Define terms or lookup info without leaving book
- Highlighting and note taking
- See popular highlights
- Text-to-speech
- Full-text search
