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by have_humility
4106 days ago
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See LeonRobrotsky's suggestion with AbeBooks. Another suggestion is Barnes & Noble. (Yes, really.) I myself had borrowed a copy through interlibrary loan back in November after checking Amazon for <$50 dollar copies, only to be blown away that they were more like $160-$190. If you've used ILL, though, you probably know how tedious it can be. A couple of weeks ago, I had to kill some time, so I meandered into a Barnes & Noble for the first time in years and on a whim tried to look up Operating Systems: Design and Implementation on bn.com. Turns out, bn.com operates not just to sell B&N wares, but also apparently as a sort of hub for third-party sellers, (just?) like Amazon. I was surprised to see the market rate for used copies was $34.50, so I snagged one. Meanwhile, the AbeBooks link above has a shrink-wrapped copy for $16.52. Takeaway: don't assume that Amazon is the end-all-be-all, even for books. |
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