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Buying Books

The easiest and fastest way to purchase all your books at once is by paying a visit to Labyrinth Books on Nassau Street. Professors register with the store, so that all your books are sitting together in a little pile when you arrive. They often even label the texts that are required and the ones that are optional.

Professors often collect smaller readings in photocopied packets, available for sale at Pequod Printing at the U-Store. You can’t sell them off after the class is done, so see if you can split the cost and share with another person.

When all else fails, most professors keep a copy of the reading in the Firestone Reserve Room. Undoubtedly, you can also find a copy of the book in the library itself, or through one of the many interlibrary networks Princeton has joined (Borrow Direct is particularly popular).

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Money-saving tip

Online book vendors and used book trades are a great way to save some cash; Amazon, Varsity Books, Beagle Books and eBay are the big ones. Especially handy is Princeton's own TigerTrade site (under "books"). If you can find one of your books there, you can often pick it up from another student's dorm an hour later.