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Tempering the Cost of College Books

One of the most demanding investments weNEW/USED COLLEGE BOOKS (this site is an
make in our college years is in collegeamalgamation, a search engine for all
books. When I was in school, both inthe connecting bookstores online)
undergraduate and graduate school,Another strategy you might have
though I was an English Lit major, myseen-unless you just started school and
books were from 100 to 500 dollars ahave not seen the campus facilities,
semester.yet-is the common bulletin board system:
I went about the first week of theyou post a request for a particular
semester feeling so sorry for myself . .title along with your phone number
. until I saw some of the other major'soutside of the department, in the
college books and prices: psychology,cafeteria, and wherever else a bulletin
100; engineering, 200; math, 200. Butboard allows public postings. (Be sure
keep in mind there are alternativesyou have gotten approval for posting
today, thanks to in large part thefrom the associated students or others,
Internet.who will date stamp your ad, else the
First, you have to get over the elitistflyers can and might be torn down.)
attitude that you need all brand newThere's one more strategy that some of
books. If the book is available on themy students have tried-sometimes with
shelf in the college bookstore used, gogreat success, other times with not so
for it. Or check the used bookstores ingreat success: two people share in the
town: for anyone living in the Sancost of a new college book. They take
Francisco Bay Area, that is much more ofturns using the book, especially since
a possibility, as we have Moe's Books inthey live together and/or are in the
Berkeley, Green Apple Books on Clementsame class.
Street, and hundreds of independentBut by the same token that peer group
bookstores.workers can have one peer who is flaky
As well, sites like the world-renownedor who takes on in the middle of the
EBay give us access to booksellers thesemester or who has a tragedy hit (when
world over, and you can usually (if youhe or she has the necessary materials
don't have time to bid on a book, as youand cannot get them to the group), so
need it within a week) take the "Buymight you encounter a sharer of your
Now" option. EBay sellers, from mysource materials, just when it is your
experience thus far, are fast. I haveturn to use one and just when the
gotten books mailed from the UK to thepartner is nowhere to be found. Of
US in under five days!course, some students have taken the
Next, there are appropriate vendersexpense of photocopying chapters, but
outside of EBay online. Here are a fewthat seems to be overkill (of time and
that my own students have used over thenerves), especially now that we have
years:tools to enhance our book-buying
NEW COLLEGE BOOKSexperience.



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