A few days ago, I was able to see a few of the course outlines for my first term courses. Most of them listed the required and optional textbooks for the course. I was thinking of ordering my textbooks sometime in the next few days from Titles. I was just wondering if...

1) I should wait until the first day of classes to get these textbooks and...
2) If I should even bother getting the optional textbooks

If anyone can help out that would be great

Don't bother with optionals; wait until the first day of class to see what your prof recommends. Many profs are very understanding of the student budget and if you contact them via email or talk to the m in person, sometimes they tell you that you could go for a cheaper alternative

WAIT WAIT and WAIT.

No need to buy them so early!!! Especially with electives, wait because you may drop the course if you don't like it and be stuck with a textbook to return or sell. We're going to be showing a bunch of ways you can also buy USED textbooks for really great prices, check the MacInsiders homepage for the article soon

Plus, courseware is non refundable, so if you purchase some and decide you don't like the course on the first day and decide to drop it, it might be hard getting rid of it