Nothing eats up your wallet like college textbooks. Students can shell out more than $900 a semester on college books alone. Fortunately, there are ways to save. Here are college budget saving tips:

1) The campus bookstore is a reference

Campus bookstores conveniently have supplies of your required textbooks. However, they also have extremely high mark-up prices. If you want to save, simply get the ISBN numbers and prices of the books you need while you’re at the campus bookstore. Use that information to scout around other bookstores to compare prices. You may even want to check the prices out online through sites like Amazon, eBay, Varsity Books, Barnes & Noble and the like.

2) Buy used college textbooks

If you really want to save, you can have cheap college books by buying used ones. Thanks to sites like Amazon, TextbookX.com, TextForSale.com, BigWords.com, BookByte.com and StudentListings.com, you can hunt for used textbooks more conveniently.

3) Take advantage of eBooks

Some sites, like efollet.com, allow you to purchase books in different forms like simple print, digital and audio. These eBooks cost lower than the standard textbooks available in bookstores. Many times, you have the option to highlight and write notes on margins when you read materials online.

If you don’t mind buying only the chapters that are assigned in the syllabus, iChapters.com allows you to purchase chapters for as low as $1.99.

4) Put your old books on the market

Don’t forget, you can sell your older textbooks for extra cash.

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