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" Something I know I took for granted in high school was the textbooks--now the days of borrowing books and not paying a penny is in the past! How much you will pay a semester or quarter varies, but I&amp;#039;ve heard people talk about dropping anywhere from $150 to $700 at the bookstore! Here are some tips and tricks I&amp;#039;ve learned to save you some money! There are going to be books where you just have no choice but to buy them in the bookstore; I know last semester I had to drop 50 bucks on a book because the teacher wrote it! What I learned the hard way, though, is that if you buy these kind of books early, your odds of getting a used copy are much higher. Used books can sound like a turn off, but already having important things highlighted can help, and you can save anywhere from 10%-50%!  Most of the time your best bet is to look outside of your bookstore for textbooks. Something you&amp;#039;ll learn to treasure is an ISBN number - it looks something like this: 9780451526854. Go ahead, pop that long line of numbers into Google; you&amp;#039;ll come up with Othello by Shakespeare, a book I have to read for my English class next semester. Every book has a unique ISBN and knowing it will make sure you aren&amp;#039;t buying the wrong thing. You&amp;#039;ll find it either on the back of books or somewhere in the first couple of pages.  Now that you know the number, you pop it into these sites until you find the best deal:  Half.com - it&amp;#039;s an Ebay company and they connect sellers and buyers. It&amp;#039;s great for finding those rare textbooks for a steal!  Amazon Textbooks has a HUGE selection of new and used books.  Barnes and Noble Textbooks is also quickly expanding their selection of textbooks both new and used. And if you buy a textbook through them you get 10 free songs and free shipping on new books! Something that is becoming more and more popular is renting books. I personally don&amp;#039;t do it, but it&amp;#039;s an option. Chegg.com is the favorite for this. It&amp;#039;s exactly what it sounds like; they send you books, you use them for a semester, and then you send them back!  If you need to find the best deal fast and don&amp;#039;t have time to search individual sites, Campus Textbooks searches popular sites for you, including the ones I&amp;#039;ve listed and more.  While buying books is a pain in my wallet, it&amp;#039;s awesome being able to write, highlight, and take notes in my textbooks, something that was completly taboo in high school! Plus, you&amp;#039;ll get (some!) money if you sell you books back to the bookstore at the end of the year. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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