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Buying used textbooks couldn't
be easier. We've provided three ways to search through our book
listings, they are as follows:
Search by Keyword, Search by Course, and Search by ISBN.
If you do not have the book's
ISBN, you can always search by "Keywords" such as Book
Title or Author Name. You can use any or all of these for
your search.
We've included a sample book,
to help explain the process. It is called "Creating a Book Exchange
in just 215 days!"
Obviously, "Creating
a Book Exchange in just 215 days!" would be the "Book
Title", but the rest may not be as obvious.
This book has
two authors, Lawrence Love and April Tellez. To make things
easier, we broke down the "Author Name" into two separate
lines, "Author's Last Name" and "Author's First
Name." Now the question is, what should you do if there are
multiple authors?
In order to
have some structure in the search process, we've created some guidelines
for everyone to follow. One such condition is that we ask that you use
ONLY the first author listed, regardless if there are two authors
or twenty. We only need the FIRST author that is listed!
In this case,
the author you would enter is "Lawrence Love". "Love"
would be entered as the "Author's Last Name" and "Lawrence"
would be entered as the "Author's First Name."
As for the "Edition
Number," this information is found within the first few pages
of the book, as you can see in the example below:
This book happens
to be a new book, so it is a "First Edition," and nothing
is listed. If, for instance, this book had received recent additions,
it may have been a Second Edition, and that would be printed here on
this page, and can usually be found on other parts of the book, such
as the cover or the spine.
In our example,
you would enter "First" as the "Edition Number."
You could also enter "1999" which is the year the book
was published.
Notice that
the "ISBN" is also listed here, within the first few
pages.
As stated earlier,
once you have the necessary information, you can use any or all of them.
You can use just the "Author Name", or you can use
the "Author Name" in conjunction with the "Book
Title."
You can also
search through our listings based on the "Department Name"
and "Course Number." If you're looking for a book for
your "CIS 461" class, just select "CIS"
from the "Department Name" drop-down list, and enter
"461" as the "Course Number." The
search engine will bring up every ad that is listed under "CIS
461."
If you do not
know the "Course Number," then just leave it blank.
But keep in
mind, just because the seller listed the book under that particular
course, it does not necessarily mean that the book is the right one
for the class.
We strongly
suggest that you make sure it is the right book by asking your instructor,
or by consulting the instructor's syllabus.
Searching by ISBN
is probably the best and easiest way to search through our database.
Because each book has a unique ISBN, books are easily identifiable,
which makes searching faster and more efficient.
The ISBN can usually be found
on the back of the book, listed next to the UPC bar-code.
In this case, the ISBN
is 0-7645-0624-2 (it's the one circled in red,
with a big arrow pointing at it). Notice that the ISBN has the letters
"ISBN" next to it. There are a lot of numbers on the back,
but we only need the ones labeled as "ISBN."
The ISBN can usually be found
within your instructor's syllabus. If it is not listed in the syllabus,
ask your instructor for the ISBN ofthe required text.
When you are filling out
the "Search by ISBN" form, you would enter "0764506242."
DO NOT include the dashes, they are not needed.
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