COLLEGE HACK: how to get free textbooks online!📚 ✨

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🫶 If you need to know one hack for college, this is it. You can get your textbooks for *free* online! I’ll show you how:

📚FIND OUT WHAT TEXTBOOK YOU NEED

• your professor will give this information to you in the syllabus! from there, find your book’s IBSN. this is basically an identification code for that book & specific edition!

👩‍💻GO TO BOOKSHARE.ORG

• you do need an account to log in & use these options, but it is free to sign up! i’ll show you the free options in the last slide!

🔎ENTER IBSN IN EXPLORE SECTION

• enter your book’s IBSN in the explore section! this will help you find the right edition of the textbook that your professor wants you to use. that’s helpful for when your professor assigns you specific pages to read! if you can’t get the latest edition, that is okay! try to find the most recent one. it will have the same content as the newest edition, but will be offset by a few pages.

📒FIND YOUR TEXTBOOK

• if they have that edition of your book, it will show up on the screen as pictured! to download the book, you have to click on its blue linked title.

• if they don’t have your book, i suggest searching the book’s title or author and trying to find an earlier edition.

💻LOG IN & DOWNLOAD

• the next step is to download your book! you have to be logged in to do this. the textbook will then download onto your computer as a zip file!

☝️FREE ACCOUNT DETAILS

• it is 100% free to make an account! just sign up with your student email.

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