What Should I Do About College Textbooks?

Is it possible to go a month without textbooks in college? Because that is how long it is going to take me to get my scholarship money refund. I have one textbook right now, out of 8 or so.What Should I Do About College Textbooks?
Go ask the campus bookstore if you can buy your books and charge them against your financial aid account. Most do this as a regular thing.

Whether you need the books right now depends a lot on the course you're in and the requirements. You might find them in the library but don't count on it - everyone else wants that book free too. Your best shot is to find someone who took the same class last semester and borrow theirs or to find someone in a different section of the same class now and share.

While many professors assign texts that they then don't use in class - most have a reason for requiring a textbook. In my class, if you don't have a book at the second class meeting then you better have a really good reason why not and some plan for how you're going to pass my class without it. If your story is sad enough (such as "I had it but it was in my room and my house burned down this week") then I'll loan you one or buy it for you. If it's just "I can't afford to go to college" then that isn't going to cut it with me.

PS: you'll find that most students who never crack a textbook also never make it past year two. They're doomed.

PS2: Get mom, dad, grandma, uncle Fred, anyone with credit to cosign a secured credit card for you with about $250 limit on it. Secured means that money is in the bank to cover the card. The agreement with said relative is that this card is only for buying textbooks and gets paid off when financial aid releases each semester. It costs them nothing (because the money stays in the bank) and helps build your credit while allowing you access to the money in advance of financial aid. Almost all banks will issue you a secured credit card to just about anyone and many will do it without the cosigner at all. Treat that card well and with respect and by the time you graduate you'll have an unsecured gold card from that bank with which to begin adult life. Credit cards are essential these days - debt is not. Pay your card balances off every month.
It depends on when your first exam is and how heavily your class emphasizes the notes over the book. It's possible in some classes, but not in others. Talk to your professors and see what they advise- many have extra copies of the textbooks they lend out to needy students. The library also often has a copy of textbooks on file. You can't take them out of the library, but you can read them there. Also, try photocopying chapters from a friend's book.



Good luck!What Should I Do About College Textbooks?
You probably can, maybe make friends with people in your classes and see if they'll let you share their book for the first few weeks. There was a guy in one of my classes last sem. who couldn't get his book for a awhile due to money issues. He asked everyone in our class if anyone would mind sharing their book for awhile until he had enough money to buy his own, many people offered to help.What Should I Do About College Textbooks?
you can do ALOT actually....makes friends in all the classes you don't have books in right now and do you homework with them...you'll get extra help AND have access to a book (win-win). also, you're university may have a circulation desk, where you can check out the book you need for like an hour or so...you can photo copy the pages you need for whatever you're doing, and just turn it back in when your times up. and also, there are websites such as ebay and half.com, where all you need is the ISBN # and it'll sell you the book for a MUCH cheaper price.



my into to psych book is about $112 at my book store (for new), $92 for used, but it's only about $50-$60 on half.com...godsend, isn't it?



but try any of these methods...everyone knows books are seriously overpriced in college...as long as you have access to your books, you should be fine.
You don't really use your textbooks that's what I have learned, unless it's math or some crazy teacher that always makes you read. I can tell you this as well. Go to the library and check them out. Or if you have a TRIO program sometimes they let people borrow their books.
only if u can borrow or share with friends and get notes

your going to need the textbook