Confessions of A Working Girl

Well, actually, at the moment, all I’m thinking of are textbooks, but in general, prices are going higher and it seems ridiculous. For example, now, regular fiction books are generally 7 or 8 dollars if you buy them new!

But at the moment my main complaint is about textbooks. Today I spent $154.23 on textbooks. It took over an hour of searching online and comparison shopping to get the prices that low. Total, I needed six textbooks. Two of them I managed to find on the paperbackswap site, so they only ended up being a little under three dollars each. The other textbooks weren’t as easy to find.

At one point I had eight or nine tabs open on my browser so that I could compare prices! I ended up buying the books from a few different sites. One book I found on ebay. I’ve used ebay before, so I wasn’t worried about that one. The other sites I bought from however, were sites that I had never used before.

One of them was Alibris or something like that. I got two of my books from there. The other site I’d at least heard of: it was Abe Books. They have decent prices for used regular books too. And it seemed that if you were not in any hurry to get the books, you could get free shipping, which is awesome.

On another topic: today I went with my dad to pick up Jin from his girlfriend’s house. (Why she can’t give him a ride once in a while I don’t understand). He was supposed to meet us at the nearby stop and shop at 12:30. We got there late…and Jin wasn’t there yet. I texted him after he ignored dad trying to call him, and he texted “We haven’t left yet.” He and his girlfriend didn’t end up getting there until 12:52!

Because of that twenty minutes–and the twenty minutes we had to spend in line at wal-mart, I missed getting to see Ki today. I was going to return her books…and she was going to lend me more to read. ^_^

Ah well. The way it worked out was that now, I’m going to meet her at 3 tomorrow, when she finishes work. Maybe I’ll get to go over her house! That’s always fun, and we talk for hours.

Oh, and I have to remember that Coche needs an oil change before I go back to school on the 18th…

1 Comment » Michelle:

January 29th, 2010 @ 3:04 pm I completely agree! I go to the same college you do, not sure if I mentioned that in any of the comments I wrote. We’re FB friends too. My mom introduced us at a Girl Scout event.

In my experience with Alibris their shipping is really expensive, but Abe Books has seemed pretty good. Chegg.com and Bookrenter.com are great for renting textbooks cheap.