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For textbooks, students have at least four choices that normally carry most of their professors’ book requests — Beat the Bookstore, Prairie Lights Books, University Bookstore, and Iowa Book. Professors will usually indicate on their syllabuses which store has ordered the books students need.
Students may also search for textbooks on the University Bookstore’s and Iowa Book’s websites by class number.
“It’s usually between Iowa Book and the University Bookstore,” UI student Joelle Gluesing said. “Some of the more obscure anthropology books, I sometimes have to get online, because they’re not available anywhere else.”
When all else fails, students can always search online on such popular sites as half.com to buy them.
They can even rent some books now, too.
“I’ve been using Chegg — it’s an online rental service,” UI student Laura Wonderlin said. “It’s a lot cheaper — I feel like I don’t keep my books at the end of the year. It’s easier that way.”
Some books will have both used and new versions. Here’s an upperclassman’s secret: Get to the store as soon as you have the book title; used books generally sell out fast.
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