Textbooks are fucking expensive, and if your professor doesn’t require a physical copy (most don’t - they just want you to have the book at hand. Or maybe even not. Some professors literally give no fucks about whether you have the book or not) and you don’t mind having your…
For friends and followers still in school. Another good tip, if you have an ereader, is to get the textbook edition on that, if it’s available. Might be more expensive than the above methods, but I still saved about $300/quarter after starting to buy books on my Kindle.