Straight out of high school, I went to community college. I hated it.
I ended up dropping out after completing a semester and a half. It just wasn’t my thing. I wasn’t ready.
In the fall of 2007, I decided to go back to school to find a career.
I attended online college so I didn’t need to worry about purchasing books. All my books were provided to me online and was included in my tuition costs.
Now that I’m in my graduate program, I am attending an online and ground campus college that requires me to purchase my own textbooks.
I forget how expensive it can be! These books are not cheap! (Which is a whole ‘nother story!)
CampusBookRentals allows you to rent a textbook for a fraction of the cost of purchasing the textbook.
For example:
For my current class, I needed The Skilled Helper book. I purchased it used from Amazon for $69.94.
From CampusBookRentals.com, I could rent the book for 130 days (over 4 months) for $38.81! I could have saved myself half the cost!
Better yet, my class is only 7.5 weeks so I could save even more money by renting the same book for 55 days for $33.77!
I have rented the ebook copy of my textbooks before (not something I recommend – it is really hard to take an open book test with an ebook!) but I will definitely remember CampusBookRentals.com when my next class starts – they send real books!
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They are GREAT—-low cost plus they allow you to highlight/make notes in the books. They’ll even buy back your used textbooks, too!! Wish this was around back when I was in college.
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Cost of books for schools are high…. my son had a hard enough time getting the tuition $$ but then the books thing was even harder for him to navigate since some books were over $150.00 – and that’s alot. Personally I don’t really understand a school book costing $150.00 each but then everything has skyrocketed in price.
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I’m with you on that – no clue why textbooks have to be so darn expensive. I need to buy a workbook to accompany the book I mentioned in the post – it’s a $52 workbook! Absurd!