A note for college HN'ers: you don't need foreign relatives to mail you the books. amazon.co.uk will happily ship to US addresses. It costs a little more to s

A note for college HN'ers: you don't need foreign relatives to mail you the books. amazon.co.uk will happily ship to US addresses. It costs a little more to ship and takes a week or so longer, but you can still save a substantial amount. I bought most of my engineering texts this way.