[Myrddin]

When I lived in San Diego, I took advantage of the bookstores at UCSD and SDSU to find interesting text books specified for the current term courses. I moved to Pocatello, ID in 2000 and continued that practice at the ISU bookstore and a 3rd party college bookstore across the street. Post-COVID, the 3rd party store closed and the text books can no longer be browsed by walk-in customers. You have to be a student signed up for courses. The store staff fetches the titles for your course. A disappointing morph in college bookstore practice. There are shelves with contemporary offerings that are not course specific and not sequestered from walk-in customers. Frankly, I can peruse those titles and buy much cheaper via Amazon.

[lodi90]

University oriented bookstores use to have a discount table with scholarly books for a couple bucks. That’s all gone now, too.