I always bought my textbooks online, if at all possible.
At the end of the semester, if you have any textbooks that you KNOW you won't use anymore (doubtful in grad school, but it could happen...), make sure you do an ISBN search to see how much you could get for your book online. The UT Bookstore often pays bottom-dollar, but if there's a flag out for the textbook because Podunk U in North Dakota needs some copies, you can sell the book for a lot more money online!
I paid rent with the money I got off of selling my hated econ grad school textbooks :D
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Date: 2008-08-31 12:07 am (UTC)At the end of the semester, if you have any textbooks that you KNOW you won't use anymore (doubtful in grad school, but it could happen...), make sure you do an ISBN search to see how much you could get for your book online. The UT Bookstore often pays bottom-dollar, but if there's a flag out for the textbook because Podunk U in North Dakota needs some copies, you can sell the book for a lot more money online!
I paid rent with the money I got off of selling my hated econ grad school textbooks :D