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Teachers like textbooks up-to-date, ideologues like them slanted their way, and kids like them slender. But when it comes to online shoppers, there’s one characteristic in a comprehensive school volume that trumps all others: cost.

The perennial demand for textbooks is again ringing up searches in Buzz. In the past seven days, we’ve logged the return of such familiar back-to-school terms as “sell textbooks,” “buy textbooks,” and “used textbooks.” However, it’s each tome’s price tag that really attracts the starving searchers (and their parents). More than half of the week’s “textbook” lookups seek books on a budget…