How To Know If You Are Buying A Good Used Textbook
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Have you ever left the college bookstore with a bunch of used textbooks only to get home and find out that they are not a very good books? How about when ordering off of Amazon or Half.com? I believe that it happens more often than not when you are ordering books online. There are ways to protect yourself from buying junk textbooks. You just need to be actively involved in the process to make sure.
If you are buying used textbooks from the campus bookstore, most likely they are shrink wrapped and you can’t flip through the book to take it for a test drive. This makes it a little more harder for you to find out if the textbook is quality, but not impossible. Have a look at the cover and the corners of the book. Do they look new? Undamaged? That is a good sign if they look good. Look at the edges of the pages, are they dirty and worn out? Do they have any water damage (waves) on the pages? Any bent pages? If not, you probably have a pretty good used textbook on your hands!
What if you are buying online? This gets scary for most students and that is why I very rarely order textbooks on the internet. About the only thing you can do is ask the seller for more information and actual pictures of the textbook. If they have nothing to hide, they will have no problem taking a few snapshots of the text and sending them to you. Do you research, even though it will take some extra time on your part. No one likes getting stuck with a bunk used textbook!
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