{"id":22911,"date":"2019-08-20T16:22:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T20:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=22911"},"modified":"2019-09-25T16:13:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T20:13:04","slug":"having-fun-isnt-hard-when-youve-got-a-library-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=22911","title":{"rendered":"having fun isn’t hard when you’ve got a library card"},"content":{"rendered":"

books!<\/span><\/p>\n

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to build upon a<\/span> previous aska’s post,<\/span><\/a> the process of getting your hands on them might be a lot more complicated than you’d think. this is what i’ve learned so far in my time at u of t– hopefully it keeps you from making the same mistakes i did. that’s the idea, anyways, isn’t it?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

first question: what books do i need?<\/strong><\/p>\n

hit up this bookstore page<\/a> and sign in with your utorid. once you’re enrolled in courses, you should get a list of the books you’ll need for each class you’re taking. sometimes it’ll take profs a while to upload those to the system, so there might be blank spaces– other times, those blank spaces mean there are\u00a0<\/em>no required books. what will you be reading in that case? i had one prof upload a bunch of pdfs and that was it. i would take that course again just to save money.<\/p>\n

there are other cases in which you’ll need books, but they won’t be listed. that means they won’t be bookstore-offered texts, and you’ll need to take a trip to the bob miller book room<\/a>, alicos printing,<\/a> or print city<\/a> to get your reading materials.<\/p>\n

sometimes, you don’t even need to get books<\/strong><\/p>\n

there are certain courses that’ll list books but they’ll end up being optional, or you’ll never even crack them open. i haven’t found that this is common, but if you’re concerned about this you can always attend a few lectures before buying. what you risk by doing this is that you’ll be behind on readings, but the potential reward is that you get to save some cash.<\/span><\/p>\n

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with that said, there’s no way to know whether or not you’ll\u00a0really\u00a0<\/em>need the book til your first class, when (hopefully) your prof will tell you. so it’s not a terrible idea to wait til you’ve attended at least one class to get your books.<\/p>\n