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Cheap Textbooks


Lug the bag, plop down in the seat, spread out on a library desk as much as you can. Wonder what diseases come in contact with cheap textbooks. Wonder if digital texts make sense, make reading cost less. They certainly weigh less, don't flap shut on an important page now lost. Maybe that's why students break the spines of cheap textbooks, highlight, underline, dog ear, bite to hold like a third hand as the book bag is rifled for other texts. Oh, for the new, the shiny, and untouched book! Oh, for the smell and the purity! When done with them, they sell cheap textbooks for date money. That is, if the book store buys them back.
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