Text books can be expensive. One book for one course can cost over $150. So what do you do when you need an outrageously priced textbook for a class but you don’t want to pay the actual price for it? You go book hunting.

3 rules you must know before purchasing books and text books

1. Do not purchase your books in your campus library unless your professor asks you to do so. Textbooks and required books can cost more or about the same as the original price of the book elsewhere.
2. Ask your professor about purchasing an older edition. Older editions cost less money.
3. Don’t purchase the digital copy right away, some professors prefer students to have the books and or textbook physically not digitally.

Finding books and textbooks for a cheap price

1. Amazon is your best friend, you can find used copies of books as cheap as 1 cent!
2. Rent on Chegg.com.
3. Ask your friends and upper classmen if they have the book from a previous course.
4. The Professor may have a copy.
5. Get an international version.
6. Reserve book at your campus library.
7. Search for books at your public library.
8. Find a digital copy.
9. Make copies of the pages that you need from a peers textbook.
10. Check your campus library for rentals and used copies only.