Search multiple sites for college textbooks at once

[pmrandall]

Found this in a Reader's Digest article. www.booksprice.com

The web site will allow you to enter in the Title, Author or ISBN and then provide you with a list that includes price and shipping costs for a bottom line at a glance.

With my son starting his next semester, this will help (cough) to try and keep some of the costs down.

[Rhondakay]

Thanks! This should be helpful. Repped.

[bedington]

Thanks OP! I hope the International version is the same....repped!!

[biohzrd]

Thanks OP! I hope the International version is the same....repped!!

International textbooks are almost always the same with the following exceptions:

Paperback Binding
Black and White
Slightly thinner pages
Localized Problem set (i.e. in accounting, prices are in pounds, rupees, etc. while in engineering most problems/examples are in metric, no english units)

[biohzrd]

Oh, and please refer to this for a complete list of textbook searching sites:
http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?t=291575

[drhass]

not meaning to be a big spoil sport, but http://www.bigwords.com has been around for about 10 years and does the same thing. Still a +1for you though.

[jalt]

Works much better than I expected. The results are up-to-date and the search engine offers great flexibility.
Thanks OP, and repped.

[alchemista]

I use addall.com but will check these out too

[AK2008]

International textbooks are almost always the same with the following exceptions:

Paperback Binding
Black and White
Slightly thinner pages

Nope, not always the case. Especially in case of Accounting or where there are case studies, the examples might be more localized where the book is printed. So a US edition will have examples and problems based on US data while an international will have a different set altogether. Happened with me in Accounting and Economics. I will verify before buying international editions now.

Also try www.bestwebbuys.com

[biohzrd]

Nope, not always the case. Especially in case of Accounting or where there are case studies, the examples might be more localized where the book is printed. So a US edition will have examples and problems based on US data while an international will have a different set altogether. Happened with me in Accounting and Economics. I will verify before buying international editions now.

Also try www.bestwebbuys.com

I guess I have no experience with accounting. Most international engineering textbooks comply with my guidelines, but I remember that most of them use Metric only problems...thanks for reminding me! Will update my post.

[johnnyp14]

cool find op, but other poster is right, bigwords.com still owns. thanks though and repped.

http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?sduid=238803&t=903422

[defiantroa]

Vote "No" for Overprice Textbooks! Ebook all the textbooks Google and Amazon!

[chiaroscurogirl]

I do like this site. It gives me tons of options plus it saves my other searches so I can try to figure out a book budget. At least this semester I just have to get three books unlike last semester where it was seven books (not including all the literature I ended up getting at the library!). Ugg...the life of an English major! :P

[afrahsaniya]

I use textbookrevolt.com. This site lets people exchange books for free. Get rid of the books you don't want and get the books you need. No money needed at all.

[Shopper77]

I use textbookrevolt.com. This site lets people exchange books for free. Get rid of the books you don't want and get the books you need. No money needed at all.

thanks!

[Loan_Crusader]

www.fetchbook.info made me money during college

[deerland]

Found this in a Reader's Digest article. www.booksprice.com

The web site will allow you to enter in the Title, Author or ISBN and then provide you with a list that includes price and shipping costs for a bottom line at a glance.

With my son starting his next semester, this will help (cough) to try and keep some of the costs down.

repped thanks:drool:

[RedWhiteAndWHO]

I'll put in a vote for bigwords.com too. They give me free stickers every year!

[mopedman]

I am a user of www.chambal.com . It has worked great for me. Yes on cheap textbooks!!!

[mm3ss690]

Thanks! You just saved me $25 by buying a textbook from amazon.co.uk instead of amazon.com.

[rogin16]

I usually use www.book.ly to buy my books. They are a bit different as they already seem to know what books I'll need for my classes at my school. So all I do is type in a class and they list the books that are required and optional for my class with price comparison at half and amazon.

They seem to have a handful of random assortment of schools that they actually have class data for (UCI, Ferris State, Boston University, Brandeis University, several others).

Also a friend made some money from them. Apparently she emailed them asking when they'll add support for her school and they replied back saying they would do it for the previous semester if they find a campus rep or something. She had to do PR for them but they shared a third of their revenue from their school with her. It wasn't a lot but she didn't really do much either but made about $300.

[shinmei2006]

(mr burns) excellent

[Wired_24]

promo code for http://www.textbookx.com

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[argo2d]

(mr burns) excellent

huh? what 's that mean? is that a site?

[ricketstar]

I seriously just saved like $80+ by searching with this. You are my best friend. Thank you!

[ricketstar]

huh? what 's that mean? is that a site?


I think it is a Simpsons reference.