how do i find out what textbooks i need? (1 Viewer)

[hipsta_jess]

ok, ive been looking on the uni union site, and ive found some second hand books that i may need, but i dont know if i will need them or not
is there a site that i can put in my subjects and it will spew out the names of textbooks i need?

 

[sunny]

Try the coop bookstore website for your uni, or the individual website of your subject - sometimes the lecturer puts them up. I don't recommend getting textbooks so early, you might not even need them at all. Wait and see what the lecturer has to say about textbooks.

 

[hipsta_jess]

oh ok...will there still be plenty of 2nd hand books around then? coz i dont really wanna spend heaps on new books coz i want to transfer to a diff. degree after first yr...

 

[sunny]

Usually not at the 2nd handbook store though

You can always hunt around from 2nd years that are selling their books though - they might post "for sale" thingos on notice boards etc

Honestly, textbooks are overrated in uni Most of the time the lecture material comes from the textbook so you won't go to the textbook anyway - even then you might not bother reading through the textbook. But sometimes - the textbook is actually need when it is used alot in the course.

From experience, I bought two textbooks I haven't touched.

 

[hipsta_jess]

haha ok. im planning on having like no life for first year, i need to do really well to transfer, so i am going to need to read the textbooks over and over..and over
well thats the plan anyway, prob wont happen that way...

 

[jlh]

i'd say wait till the first lecture for the subject to find out what textbooks you will need. if its a different lecturer from last year, he/she might have changed the prescribed text and you don't wanna go buying an old textbook if its not the one they are going to be using...

 

[hipsta_jess]

yeah, so basically the general consensus is to wait?
ok thats what ill do

hey jlh, how did u get custom status?

 

[great_gregory]

Hipsta, go to UserCP, and then to edit profile. One of the options down the page is your title thingy.

lmao... i think it's funny that you wanna transfer out of science at Newie, while I want to transfer into it. I got stuck with crappy Information Tech...

 

[hipsta_jess]

Originally posted by great_gregory
Hipsta, go to UserCP, and then to edit profile. One of the options down the page is your title thingy.

nah, that only works if you joined before dec 2002 or have 3000+ posts or are a mod, which jlh has none

 

[great_gregory]

Wow, sorry Jess...

lmao... I didn't even know that i'd already joined this board over a year ago, till I tried to register again this morning. I'm a newbie, but i'm not...

 

[jlh]

actually just go what great_gregory (great name BTW.. hahaha) said....

thats all i did!!