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Article #345: Tempering the Cost of College Books

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






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