Jess, the answer to your question is yes, they are usually significantly different for two reasons. First, the publisher wants students to buy its new book, so they move around the content to different page numbers, add new questions for discussion, and sometimes reorder the chapters. This effectively prevents a student from using an older edition past its shelf life. I've seen this happening more often over the past ten years as textbook publishing has become more competitive. Second, new editions of a book usually contain new sections, updated factual information, and fix mistakes found in the text of the previous edition. With that said, it still may work out for you. This will depend on the subject of your class and how your professor teaches as to whether you can use the RFB book. If this is math or science, you're in a pickle. If it's something like psychology, history, or political science, you may be able to skate by. If the professor just lectures and tells you to read at home at your own pace, you're good to go. If your professor assigns you discussion questions from the book or does other things that depend on specific pages of the book, you could have a rough time. Have you considered asking Bookshare or your college's Student Services office to scan your book for you? It's kind of late in the game, but you still may have time to get this to work out. Talk to Carrie about the possibility, and consider FedX or UPS overnight or second day shipping to get it to her in time. Do not use media rate shipping from the post office if you need your book before the middle of February. That kind of shipping is cheaper, but it takes weeks for the package to get where it's going. -- Monica Willyard Visit my blog at http://www.scannersguild.com To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.