Good afternoon
My daughter starts uni in a couple of weeks and they have just sent her a list of books she will be needing.
Do any of you good people know of the best website to get these books from or will there be fellow students who will be selling thiers books on.
Thanks in advance.
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Best bet is to order via the university's own bookshop if it has one. You can probably set up an account for her. I did that for two of my daughters.
Lecturers are well known for putting their own books on the reading list to mug off keen first year students who will all buy them even though the book has little actual relevance to that particular module. Nice little side bit of income that...
You have to remember that a book that might take months and months to write and reference may only sell a few hundred copies, so they are, somewhat, justified is looking to keep selling the same book, all be it a slightly different edition.
Sadly, many of the comments above about not needing the books are true but you won't know what she will need until long after you've bought them. When I did my degree they even used to have a different book list every year. On the plus side as they are still in my book case they fool guests to my house into believing that I am, in actual fact, very intellectual, when I didn't even read all of them when I was at University and I've not opened any of them since!
Get down the library, or most uni's will have e-books of essential texts nowadays. What with the ridiculous fees, you don't need to be spending £100s on books that will just gather dust.
You TRY to be funny too often.
Anyway thanks to all those helpful posts.
Educational Standards simply include requirements from a bygone era and I guess it will take a little longer for them to catch up to this Web thingy
Needless to say, publishers would have showered me with free copies of their latest editions in the hope of me choosing them, I had to ask them not to!
My advice would be for your daughter to quickly snatch up second hand copies of the main texts if possible. As @RanTooFar suggested, 2nd or 3rd years could tell her which ones are the ones to buy, as will the kinder professors. Another thing to do is to go the the Library and ask how many copies they carry of each and how easy they are to find during term and exam time.
The campus will have a notice board of some sort for second hand books, many of these are online now and your daughter should liaise with friends going to other Universities as they may end up buying books for each other due to better price or availability.
Time is of the essence though........early birds and all that