I went to the student store today to look for my textbooks. I couldn't find most of my textbooks online and wanted to see the books in person so I would know what I was looking for.
Turns out a couple of my textbooks have access codes that come with the book. Now I'm not sure if I should buy the books at the university or online.
I don't know.
And I think I accidently bought the wrong edition of a book. I received the book yesterday. But today when I looked at the book in person, it has a different cover! Same author, same edition, same copyright year... so why the different cover?
Tomorrow I think I will go back and compare the book I bought to the one on the shelf. If most of the pages are the same, then I have nothing to worry about. The other math textbook I bought is exactly the same as the one in the store so no worries there.
Ugh. Why does this have to be so complicated?
I haven't decided yet what I am going to do about the access code issue. I'm still looking around. Maybe the publisher's website will have the code sold separately and I can buy the book and code individually.
One of the books that requires an access code I can buy as an e-book. It cost about $40 and if I do that, it is cheaper than buying the regular textbook and access code (or the package being sold at school). I am wondering if it would be a good idea to buy an e-book. As long as I get the right edition and everything I should be fine.
I don't know what to do!
Not sure what to do
August 6th, 2009 at 05:57 pm
August 7th, 2009 at 12:35 am 1249605335
August 7th, 2009 at 02:21 am 1249611667
BUT
Now I can't tell if it would be cheaper to buy the bundle at the university, or buy the books online and the access codes through the university, or some combination of the two.
It is all so confusing. So I gave up for today. I will strain my brain thinking of this tomorrow.
August 7th, 2009 at 08:20 pm 1249676402
Jerry
August 8th, 2009 at 04:49 pm 1249750172