College Textbooks vol. Biggest Scam

January 9, 2012 @ 09:50 PM

Cybrax2

Post: 529

Join Date: Mar 2009

So where can I rent textbooks for the cheapest price online?

I remember there was a website that compares hundreds of textbooks in search of the cheapest one.

January 9, 2012 @ 10:19 PM

D

Post: 681

Join Date: May 2011

Location: Bucket West

go with chegg.com and look for them promo codezzzz. sometimes you can find books on amazon which are cheaper to buy than rent, so check them both.

January 9, 2012 @ 10:20 PM

Crispbyyosi

Post: 542

Join Date: May 2011

Ebay, amazon.

January 9, 2012 @ 10:23 PM

Lemonz ♦

Post: 2656

Join Date: Sep 2011

Location: JA

1. Search for the PDF version of the books online.
2. Download the e-books.
3. Bring laptop to class
4. ????
6. Profit

January 9, 2012 @ 10:57 PM

eXtrachunky

Post: 290

Join Date: Jan 2008

Location: Reno 911

www.directtextbook.com

or Craigslist

Save 20% off from Karmaloop.com Use REP CODE: SUBTRACT

January 9, 2012 @ 11:21 PM

Cybrax2

Post: 529

Join Date: Mar 2009

www.directtextbook.com

or Craigslist

^best answer. Thank you

January 9, 2012 @ 11:21 PM

Beach2theBay

Post: 3039

Join Date: Apr 2009

Location: Long Beach,CA

Being a business major, if I bought brand new books from my school book store I could have paid 800 a semester easy. I always used chegg and if chegg didn't have it I'd take the reserve copy from the library and literally xerox every fucking page. I did that with my 600 page Operations Management book. I did it each week before we started the chapter.

January 9, 2012 @ 11:25 PM

hypoh

Post: 2461

Join Date: May 2008

Location: NoVA

Textbook game is so simple...

Buy used and/or international paperback editions for cheap. Check Abebooks, eBay, Half, Google, etc. Sell those books on eBay, Half, or Amazon after you're done with them at the market price. Make sure you list them at an optimum time where the market isn't as saturated with used textbook sales, but people are still in the hunt. More often than not, you will break even; sometimes you might even make a profit. Worst case scenario, you lose out on only a few dollars.

Fuck renting. Fuck a bookstore. Fuck school.

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January 9, 2012 @ 11:33 PM

appleyard

Post: 612

Join Date: Feb 2009

smdh rent that shit, textbooks this quarter would have cost me over $400, one in particular was over $200, and i'm renting it for $60, just got it from googling randomly online...

January 11, 2012 @ 02:34 PM

ice grillz

Post: 4063

Join Date: Apr 2006

I am broke as fuck so I downloaded e-books, open em up, screen capped all pages, then ask for a full refund within 7 days.

January 11, 2012 @ 02:52 PM

PowerCum

Post: 1103

Join Date: Jun 2009

I fucking hate paying for those online homework access codes

January 11, 2012 @ 03:04 PM

xJERSEYx

Post: 1693

Join Date: Jul 2008

Location: BROOKLYN

Get that financial aid!

January 11, 2012 @ 07:11 PM

prxsh

Post: 3508

Join Date: Sep 2008

smh fuck paying anything for a book. PDF or have connections so you can just borrow that shit from someone who already took the class.

Nigga only time I legit bought books was my freshman year at the bookstore, I was slippin. Four years in I've probably rented 5 books.

January 12, 2012 @ 03:45 AM

theoptimisticmind

Post: 23

Join Date: Jan 2012

Location: Canada

It drives me crazy that I have to pay $80 to submit five homework assignments on this particular website.

http://www.theoptimisticmind.tumblr.com

January 12, 2012 @ 05:01 AM

linh

Post: 1445

Join Date: Feb 2010

it cost money to turn in homework in your school/class??? what the fuck is that

January 12, 2012 @ 06:21 AM

Cybrax2

Post: 529

Join Date: Mar 2009

thats just fuckery man

January 12, 2012 @ 06:31 AM

futurebass

Post: 447

Join Date: Nov 2011

http://library.nu/

heard this site has abuncha books for free to download. but its invite only

i want an account.

January 12, 2012 @ 06:51 AM

TTHX

Post: 745

Join Date: Feb 2010

Location: Ontario, Canada

split the cost with as many people in the class you can, scan = pdf = textbooks for $1

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July 23, 2012 @ 09:27 AM

fisherryan321

Post: 2

Join Date: Jul 2012

I use only BookGator.com , here i can easily rent, sell or buy my college textbooks at very reasonable prices;
therefore I will recommend you to join;
"BookGator" @
http://www.bookgator.com

July 23, 2012 @ 09:30 AM

Ġhxzt

Post: 1311

Join Date: Apr 2011

^do not trust

July 23, 2012 @ 01:16 PM

PKdaGod

Post: 2425

Join Date: May 2011

Location: #OYYOY

ayo kinda glad that bot bumped da thread doe...my semester starts in less than a month i might use some of the above mentioned sites and shit

July 23, 2012 @ 01:28 PM

Ġhxzt

Post: 1311

Join Date: Apr 2011

i got 2 online classes & 1 day class & 1 night class, ima just go to the library and take pics of all da assigned reading's pages with my iphone for the day n night classes.
actually that day class i dont even have to attend cuz it's handing 10 reading responses and 1 mid term take home exam which is to right 2 essays 2 pages each, and the final exam is take home and it's 2 essays 3 pages each. plus i can find the readings on JSTOR which I have access to

so i only gotta do da library shit for that night class

July 23, 2012 @ 01:35 PM

RyandaGod

Post: 2076

Join Date: Mar 2012

Location: Commonwealth, Boston

real niggas be robbing textbooks and then sellin em back to the bookstore for that paper. I remember making a easy stack freshman year off that hustle

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July 23, 2012 @ 05:57 PM

ethunnn

Post: 10

Join Date: Jul 2012

you are welcome

To convert your eBooks to any other format (maybe to get it to work on your e-reader), use Calibre: http://calibre-ebook.com/.

**Public**

http://gen.lib.rus.ec (They are blocking U.S. IP addresses, use a foreign proxy to get around it. This might work too: http://free-books.us.to/)

http://textbooknova.com

http://en.bookfi.org/

http://wormhole.in (specializes in math/science-need to register)

http://ebooksbay.org

http://warez-bb.org (need to register and then go to eBooks)

http://www.gutenberg.org

http://www.updatebooks.com

http://ebookee.org

http://www.manybooks.net

http://ebookshare.net

http://book.libertorrent.com/

http://www.giuciao.com

http://www.feedurbrain.com

http://www.alleng.ru/

http://www.eknigu.com/

http://ishare.iask.sina.com.cn/

http://www.jubad.com/

http://btebook.com/0-01a8edbf9d27cebe.htm

http://www.cnshare.org/

http://www.bookgo.org/

http://www.pdfchm.com/

http://2020ok.com/

http://bbs.topsage.com/index_121.html

http://www.ebookshare.net/

http://nips.djvuzone.org/index.html

http://www.zainbooks.com/

http://free-books.us.to/

http://www.freebookspot.es/Default.aspx

http://www.freeetextbooks.com (need to register)

http://ebooksshares.org (need to register)

http://onebigtorrent.org

http://www.downeu.com

http://ebook-torrent-library.info (need to register)

http://forums.mvgroup.org (need to register)

http://theaudiobookbay.com (audiobooks)

By: "ratokursi"

Here's a custom search engine for ebooks: http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=000661023013169144559:a1-kkiboeco

Sites it indexes: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/

http://ebookee.org/

http://ebooksbay.org/

http://free-books.us.to/

http://librarypirate.me/

http://textbooknova.com/

http://www.downeu.com/

http://ebookshare.net/

http://www.freebookspot.es/

http://www.demonoid.me/

http://www.kat.ph/

http://www.esnips.com/

http://www.4shared.com/

http://www.ebooklink.net/

http://wowebook.net/

http://www.pdfchm.net/

http://www.free-ebook-download.net/

http://ebookbrowse.com/

http://www.ebook3000.com/

http://www.ipmart-forum.com/

http://www.mediafire.com/

The following are general public torrent trackers:

http://thepiratebay.org/browse/601

http://www.demonoid.me/files/?category=11&subcategory=0&language=0&seeded=0&external=2&query=&uid=0&sort=

http://www.kat.ph/books/

http://bitsnoop.com/browse/other-ebooks/

http://torrentz.eu

http://torrent-finder.info

The following site searches direct download sites like rapidshare/etc:

http://www.filestube.com

You can also try googling phrases like *"textbook/book title .torrent"* or *"textbook/book title .pdf"* or *"textbook/book title ebook"* or anything along those lines.

July 23, 2012 @ 06:00 PM

trolos714

Post: 472

Join Date: Apr 2012

Location: 714

I fucking hate paying for those online homework access codes

Sadly this is unavoidable

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July 23, 2012 @ 09:58 PM

Ġhxzt

Post: 1311

Join Date: Apr 2011

you are welcome

To convert your eBooks to any other format (maybe to get it to work on your e-reader), use Calibre: http://calibre-ebook.com/.

**Public**

http://gen.lib.rus.ec (They are blocking U.S. IP addresses, use a foreign proxy to get around it. This might work too: http://free-books.us.to/)

http://textbooknova.com

http://en.bookfi.org/

http://wormhole.in (specializes in math/science-need to register)

http://ebooksbay.org

http://warez-bb.org (need to register and then go to eBooks)

http://www.gutenberg.org

http://www.updatebooks.com

http://ebookee.org

http://www.manybooks.net

http://ebookshare.net

http://book.libertorrent.com/

http://www.giuciao.com

http://www.feedurbrain.com

http://www.alleng.ru/

http://www.eknigu.com/

http://ishare.iask.sina.com.cn/

http://www.jubad.com/

http://btebook.com/0-01a8edbf9d27cebe.htm

http://www.cnshare.org/

http://www.bookgo.org/

http://www.pdfchm.com/

http://2020ok.com/

http://bbs.topsage.com/index_121.html

http://www.ebookshare.net/

http://nips.djvuzone.org/index.html

http://www.zainbooks.com/

http://free-books.us.to/

http://www.freebookspot.es/Default.aspx

http://www.freeetextbooks.com (need to register)

http://ebooksshares.org (need to register)

http://onebigtorrent.org

http://www.downeu.com

http://ebook-torrent-library.info (need to register)

http://forums.mvgroup.org (need to register)

http://theaudiobookbay.com (audiobooks)

By: "ratokursi"

Here's a custom search engine for ebooks: http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=000661023013169144559:a1-kkiboeco

Sites it indexes: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/

http://ebookee.org/

http://ebooksbay.org/

http://free-books.us.to/

http://librarypirate.me/

http://textbooknova.com/

http://www.downeu.com/

http://ebookshare.net/

http://www.freebookspot.es/

http://www.demonoid.me/

http://www.kat.ph/

http://www.esnips.com/

http://www.4shared.com/

http://www.ebooklink.net/

http://wowebook.net/

http://www.pdfchm.net/

http://www.free-ebook-download.net/

http://ebookbrowse.com/

http://www.ebook3000.com/

http://www.ipmart-forum.com/

http://www.mediafire.com/

The following are general public torrent trackers:

http://thepiratebay.org/browse/601

http://www.demonoid.me/files/?category=11&subcategory=0&language=0&seeded=0&external=2&query=&uid=0&sort=

http://www.kat.ph/books/

http://bitsnoop.com/browse/other-ebooks/

http://torrentz.eu

http://torrent-finder.info

The following site searches direct download sites like rapidshare/etc:

http://www.filestube.com

You can also try googling phrases like *"textbook/book title .torrent"* or *"textbook/book title .pdf"* or *"textbook/book title ebook"* or anything along those lines.

this dude is pretty cool. thread bookmarked

July 23, 2012 @ 10:07 PM

BKBROWN

Post: 2495

Join Date: Aug 2010

Location: SD \\ CHI

why rent when you can torrent or buy last years edition on ebay/amazon for 90% cheaper

or get an old lady to steal some books for you

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July 23, 2012 @ 10:11 PM

honkie

Post: 251

Join Date: Nov 2011

Location: NYC

Most of the best ideas have been posted, but if you know anybody in greek life: most houses have a library with most of the necessary textbooks that you could borrow.

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July 24, 2012 @ 12:35 PM