renting a textbook for your school can be a great way of saving
By kingparker
@kingparker (9673)
United States
September 5, 2010 12:11pm CST
Text book renting is a great way of saving money for college students. We can no longer rely on buying those super - expensive textbooks like years before. We especially love this idea to living frugally especially for college students who has to handle those dorm renting fees, and tuition burden. Textbooks can be a killer. Recently, there were lots of websites available for students to rent textbook online just like the model of netflix. Now, there is a website can be used as a guidance to compare the book price on different websites. Try to look at rentscouter.com. You might find cheaper book renting sites in price comparison.
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5 responses
@kingparker (9673)
• United States
6 Sep 10
Well, we all knew about chegg.com for text book renting, it won't be hurt to compare other prices. You might find a better deal, right?
@Gorillafootprints925 (3586)
• United States
6 Sep 10
Well, it is obvious that if you are looking for cheaply priced book to look for the best deal. I'm just saying that chegg is the cheapest or the best deal ever but I'm just saying that it is cheap.
@o0jopak0o (6394)
• Philippines
6 Sep 10
well i think in this country we dont have any of these kind of services. we can borrow one in the library but its not worth it especially with the time limit you have on those books.
i usually buy 2nd hand books. just like you i cant really buy some of the books that i want. just one book that i want will cost more than $100 and i need a lot of books.
@for3verfamous (2190)
• Canada
5 Sep 10
That is a great way to save money. If you buy the textbook, you could just sell it to another student when your done with it.
OR better yet you could be one of the people renting them out to students. You could probably make more money than the textbook is even worth. 
@SatalKeto (2)
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5 Sep 10
While I completely agree that most of the time buying your textbooks can be far too expensive (especially if you're studying anything to do with computers), a website that my mum recommended to me was bookbutler.com, obviously its still going to be more expensive than renting, but sometimes I've found second hand copies of my textbooks at a couple pounds (plus p+p of course), which is nice as I'm one of those people who likes to make notes in my textbook to help me when it comes to revision time.
