I would highly encourage you to buy used books. BUT not because they are cheaper. You should buy used books because they have the potential to make your life easier. Most used books will have writing or graffiti of some kind in them. About 90.64% of the writing in used books appears to have been done by a drunken moron. These are the comments that either make no sense but try to sound smart ("Hamlet is obviously Post Modern here"), or that are just plain dumb ("She wants him now"), or that are so obvious it hurts ("He's mad about her sleeping with his dad").
BUT sometimes you get a book whose previous owner was intelligent enough to be useful for more than just entertainment. If you happen upon one of these lucky books, your reading time just got cut in half because now you only have to read the highlighted parts. Score!
These books are rare but worth it. So I would suggest buying the books that say they have highlighting or writing in them. They are cheaper and you may just get some free entertainment or cliffs notes out of them.
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