We spent a lot of money on those textbooks, so some of us kept them! I don’t think we had the option to resell eons ago, although maybe we did and I was just too attached to my world history books. I loved all of my literature books, too. They were the good friends. However, they were becoming increasing expensive for me until I found a way around the ownership.
I would visit the college library to checkout the books professors had put on the list two weeks before the start of the semester. I just kept renewing them until the semester was over. Once or twice I had to return them after their six-week period, but then I’d just turn around and reacquire them for the rest of the term. I made it through a whole year without the texts.
As I peruse the bookcases in the basement, I can honestly say I don’t miss those particular textbooks. Maybe I’ll grab an old one and brush up on the Franco-Prussian War of 1870?
