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After resisting (and resisting and resisting) for over 3+ years, I finally retired my "dinosaur" LG flip phone and caved-in to being a proud owner an HTC smartphone. In all honesty, I was probably more "forced" to move in the direction of smartphones rather that freely choosing to move in that direction since almost all phones packages now require a data plan.
Every quarter as an undergrad, I went to the bookstores and paid for either a used copy or, for the most part, a new copy. I started to see the light when it came to buying textbooks last year. Winter Quarter 2011 was when I found amazon.com. I was tired of paying between $200-$400 for textbooks every quarter, so I started checking out other options.
Here are a few ways I've learned to keep textbook costs down: