Alternatives to a desk? I don't have profoundly of space in my room (or abundantly...

I don't have profoundly of space in my room (or abundantly of money), but I need a place (in my room, not the bed, to do homework. And a place to store my books (about 30 or so). Any accepted wisdom?
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Answers:    Early in my art my senior partner lost the lease to a furnished office and I be abruptly forced to find camp of my own. My reception desk was a hollow core door propped on one side by a two drawer crust and on the other by a fireproof file. Fortunately they be the same elevation.

Thirty two years later I still hold the door which is by now covered beside splashed paint, saw cuts, hammer grades, and sundry scratches, but supported by two sawhorses, it still make a serviceable desk.
Paint the obscurity trim or replace the runner?
Ikea makes a computer desk to be precise 41" wide and 20" adjectives with shelves above the desk nouns and a space for a CPU. It isn't even too expensive.

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/produc...

There are also corner desks available from WalMart that cost about $60. You could paw shelves over that for your books.