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Paying for textbooks is becoming such a burden for college students, that today the University of Minnesota is launching an online project to hunt down free textbooks to replace the pricey ink-and-paper versions, MPR reports. It's part of a national movement to cut the cost of textbooks.
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Paying for textbooks is becoming such a burden for college students, that today the University of Minnesota is launching an online project to hunt down free textbooks to replace the pricey ink-and-paper versions, MPR reports. It's part of a national movement to cut the cost of textbooks.

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