While in college one of the largest expenses, aside from tuition and housing, that a student can encounter is the high price of college textbooks.
It is often very hard to justify spending hundreds of dollars on textbooks to only use them for a semester, and sometimes never open again. Thankfully, college students are discovering that instead of owning, they can rent textbooks for a fraction of the cost. Textbook rentals are really convenient, allowing students to search through tens of thousands of books including Everyday Foods in Wartime by author, title subject or ISBN number. Once a book is ordered it is quickly processed and promptly arrives at the student’s front door, once they are done with the rentals students can simply slip the book into a prepaid envelope provided and slip it back into the mail. Shipping is free both ways so that no one ever gets stuck with huge postal charge. The rental time periods are designed to coincide with the busy life of a college student and include semester, quarter or summer rental periods. If students need to keep any textbook for a little bit longer to study for that all important final exam they can simply extend their rents by 15 or 30 days, worry free. Renting a textbook is much like owning it, as you can even highlight in it.
Furthermore, if you wish to keep the book after renting you can simply pay the difference between the rental fee and cover price and it’s yours to keep. It truly is that easy.
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Renting textboooks is more practical especially now that the prices of school books keep on increasing. Too bad that I only learned about renting books online just few months ago. I wish I did long time ago.
This is excellent advice. The urge to write in text books and keep them for always can be overwhelming, but with the availability of print free media, textbooks are dinosaurs anyway, no need to pay for them and then lug them around for years!
I wish they had rentals when I was in school. They were just so expensive, and you could sell them back for pennies after waiting in some really long line. Glad there are better options now. There should be!
Wow! I had no idea about textbook rentals. I work for a College – but have been on maternity leave for the last 11 months…that and I don’t directly work with students so I guess I wouldn’t know if we have rental textbooks here or not. You know that I will certainly be asking around when I go back to work in August. That’s such a great idea for students…textbooks are SO expensive!
Oh, good grief! Why, oh, why couldn’t this have been around 13 years ago? I have thousands of dollars of law textbooks just sitting on shelves collecting dust. Of course, I was so young and stubborn then that I probably wouldn’t have taken advantage of it anyway…
This really is good advice. I wish I knew this when I was in college as I wasted a lot of money and time buying my textbooks at the college bookstore. It cost me a fortune!
This is definitely a better alternative than buying all the books one needs for a semester.
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I am in agreement also with renting of textbooks. The cost books today is crazy and some are even making a kindle edition.
Thanks for this, so many people don’t know that textbook rentals are even an option. More students should know about this to help them save some money with college being more and more expensive.
I never knew you could rent text books. I knew about buying them used. Great resource – thanks for sharing! I could have saved a lot of money on books – oh well.