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BETTER WAY: URI senior Anthony Markey launched Libby, a Providence-based, online textbook buy-and-sell platform, as an alternative to school bookstores, which buy back textbooks at a fraction of the original price. / COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND
BETTER WAY: URI senior Anthony Markey launched Libby, a Providence-based, online textbook buy-and-sell platform, as an alternative to school bookstores, which buy back textbooks at a fraction of the original price. / COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND

A senior at the ­University of Rhode Island, Anthony ­Markey knows how frustrating it is when the school bookstore offers to buy back textbooks at a fraction of the original price. “Although only a few months have gone by, it’s almost worse than a car … you’re getting pennies on the dollar,” he said. Markey,

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