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