An Undergraduate Council effort to provide students with cheaper textbooks suffered a setback this week, when Harvard Coop officials asked the council’s representatives to leave off collecting textbook ISBNs. Nevertheless, the students have re-opened Crimson Reading, a website designed for students to compare book prices and find the cheapest selection possible online. Students collected information from nearly 2,500 textbooks in August in order to get the site up and running this past September. Significantly, the effort isn’t just helping Harvard students; of the $50,000 of books sold on Crimson Reading during the fall semester, $3,000 worth went to Zambia.

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