Books & School Options

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Do you sell your books back? Do you keep the ones for your major as reference material? Do you sell back to the campus book store / amazon / craigslist / other method?

Traditionally I've gone to the book store (I'm lazy) and taken the highest offers. Sometimes they'll offer like $10 for a $150 book and I tend to keep those because I'd just feel guilty for giving up something like that at a fraction of the price. Still probably will never read it again :(

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I sell them back by whatever means possible, first I'll try the bookstore, if they don't give me back at least half of what I paid, I'll list them on amazon (which usually sells pretty well). I've only kept a couple of books because they'd only sell for pennies, or nothing, if their custom for the semester. I was able to sell all of my books on amazon this semester. Originally bought them all for like 200, got back 125.