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Calling all university students! The semester is about to start up, and I am excited to share with you a great way to save on your textbooks.
After four years of college and three years of graduate school, I totally get that books break the bank. Really. One semester my books cost over $600. Paying $120 for a biology textbook made me cringe. Not only did I not plan to use biology in the future, but frankly the very thought of biology bored me to tears. (Sorry, med students.) Paying so much money one textbook seems ridiculous. Multiply that by five classes and the fact that many classes have multiple books. It is costly! I get it. I really do. Maybe there’s another way…
Have you ever thought about renting your textbooks? When I was in college, which doesn’t seem that long ago, this was not an option, but now some genius, who started Campus Book Rentals, came up with the idea of renting books, which saves students a ton of money! It’s totally genius!
Why rent textbooks?
It saves you 40-90% on bookstore prices.
You choose your rental period length.
Easy search.
Free shipping both ways.
Next day service is available.
Complete refund within 30 days, in case you were to drop a class.
You can highlight in the books you rent. (A major perk, in my opinion.)
Plus, they donate to Operation Smile with each textbook rented!
Campus Book Rentals has been recommended by the Wall Street Journal, CNN, and Newsweek.
Campus Book Rentals also started a new program called Rent Back. They realize that there are some books you may want to buy and then keep. This program allows students to keep their books and temporarily rent them out for a semester to other students around the country. You earn 2-4x more money renting them to others than you would selling them, which seems like a pretty awesome deal to me, especially when you consider the pennies you get for selling back books, compared to the book’s original cost. I actually wish I had known about this six months ago when I sold all of my graduate school books!
Have any of you rented textbooks? What has your experience been?
I did receive compensation in exchange for writing a review of these two companies. However, the opinions expressed are my own.