Um, go to Amazon and don’t buy the lowest priced copy on the market. You can get used textbooks there for a very decent price.

Hey Dan, I don’t know about on-line, which would involve shipping and all the other mess. But I do recommend either using your own school’s resources, or being the pioneer who sets up a competing system to interfere with and subvert the appalling practices of the “Used textbook” industry. If you are near a large urban area, you will have lots of options. (My kid parleyed a $500 amount into $150.00 on texts, and some saved for a plane ticket to Europe–I was impressed.) If by any chance you can hit the VNSA Booksale in Phoenix, you will be amazed. Also—these days there are critters I call the “Book Sharks” at that fair. They run thru there with scanners and stored titles and shopping carts. Although if you really want to get your books cheaply, you will do as I suggest and probably become an entepreneur I will beg to hire me in 5 years…the other option is to go on-line and find out who those “Book Sharks” are selling their books to, then take the hit of buying retail, not wholesale. The other suggestion I have, if you are a legitimately poor student, and not one who just wants to have more of the “parental units” money for beer and dope—is to go to your professors, confess that money is an issue in your life, and ask if they might know anyone from the last class who wants to sell their books privately to you, at a better rate than they will get from the Bookstore. You will be pleasantly surprised I suspect, by how warmly you will be treated. (I was in this situation and was given a prior edition of the English Lit text, with my Profs notes in it…I was flattered and felt blessed, and pretty clearly he did not plan on grading me down because I was using an older edition). Used text sites are probably a dime a dozen these days. but the human contacts ya get from asking other students, or your Profs—-priceless. Be the starter, not the flour. Best wishes on your quest, good question.PS–buy used, but watch out for Dilbert’s who underline too much. You want to have a used text that is either minimally hi-lighted, or hi-lighted by somebody who is more of a natural at the subject than you are! If you are really poor, use the copier for lab texts that only use a small portion of the expensive text. That got me a job workng for a wonderful Chem and Anatomy instructor who could relate to my Scot side and was amused to see what I’d done. So if you are actually poor, be upfront about it. If not, go to a better search site. Main online search using keywords.