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"Thanks to the Internet and other digital technology, Southern Oregon University students are finding ways around the 'outrageous' cost of new textbooks, including used books on Amazon, rental book sites, Google Books and even PDFs that get passed along. 'I hate buying textbooks,' says health and physical education senior Kellie Pertl, after paying $455 for an anatomy book. 'It's awful. I can usually find a book on Google Books. It sucks to read a book on screen, but it doesn't suck as bad as dropping a hundred bucks on a book.' Her comments come after release of an Oregon State Public Interest Research Group study showing many students and even faculty are finding ways over the textbook moat, with teachers writing their own 'open textbooks,' free online, with hard copy optional. Such a process saves students an average of $100 per course, notes OSPIRG ..."