Textbooks are a pretty big chunk of your college expenses. If you choose to buy them, you are looking to spend around $900 per year for all of your textbooks. There is another option though. You can rent your textbooks online and drastically reduce the amount of money that you spend on your textbooks. Sometimes saving up to 85% on your textbooks.
Check out the savings for yourself! Here are a few sites that offer textbook rentals.
Chegg.com
Chegg is the #1 Textbook rental service and has saved students a total of $71,596,544.54 and this number continues to grow every second! It is very easy to use and they have thousands of textbooks. They also have very quick shipping so you can get that book at the last minute. With Chegg, you can Save $500 a Year on Textbooks. There are not enough great things I can say about this service. Use Chegg.com to Rent Textbooks!
Here are some alternative textbook rental sites that you can check out. I haven’t personally used any of the below services before, but I’m sure they are great. If any of you have used them though please review them in the comment section. Thanks!
BookRenter.com
“College bookstores are expensive and finding reliable used textbooks can be a hassle. Why bother when you can rent your books online for a fraction of the cost? As the best way to rent textbooks, BookRenter.com is here to make education more affordable. Register Now and see what renting books can do for you.” Save hundreds on your college textbooks with BookRenter.com!
CampusBookRentals.com
“Renting textbooks makes sense plain and simple. Every rental comes with a worry free guarantee within the first 15 days if you drop your class or change your mind, you keep more cash in your pocket up front, you can order from the comfort of your home or office, it doesn’t cost a penny to return your rented textbooks when you’re done with them (we even provide the package), and you don’t have to worry about disappointing buyback prices at the end of the semester. Let us take the risk that your textbook will be worthless next semester; you don’t have to anymore.” Check out Campusbookrentals.com!
KnetBooks.com
“Knetbooks is a division of Knetwit.com. Our goal is to give back to the students and to make education affordable for all. Knetbooks is a textbook rental site that helps students save money on textbooks that they would normally have to buy anyway. We also want to help educate people less fortunate and will donate books and scholarships to schools, organizations, and people in need.”
Skoobit.com
“Skoobit is an online textbook rental company which delivers the very best in customer service making textbook rental very easy. Our rental service saves students up to 85% off by just renting, which also saves the environment, whereby students are reusing books.”
Conclusion
There you have it, five awesome services to help cut the cost of college. Happy renting!
How much have you saved this year?
Marita
Renting textbooks is super convenient! The trend of TranSumerism is great. For those who are avid readers in their spare time, I reccomend BookSwim.
Dan Northern
I just took a look at Bookswim.com. It looks like a great way to rent books. It is always nice to get away from all of your school reading and sit down with something you enjoy. Thanks for the heads up Marita.
Andrew
Here is another textbook rental site you can add to the list. Its http://www.skoobit.com. Have used them already and they are great! I saved over $300 on my textbooks.
Dan Northern
Thanks for the resource Andrew. I added it to the list.
Britney
Great Review. I have tried some of the others but going with Bookrenter. They have been great. Plus they give a portion to Haiti Relief which is really cool
Dan Northern
Thanks Britney. Bookrenter looks like they provide quality service. I just saw on their website that they are donating to Haiti, and i agree, that is really cool of them to do!
Matthew Taylor
I just ran across your blog and wanted to make sure that you knew that eCampus.com also rents Textbooks. You can find search through our available rental books here: Rent Textbooks from eCampus.com
Thanks!
Jess
This model has recently been brought to the UK with UnibookRental.com! I have only used them once but the book arrived in 2 days and was brand new- I saved 60 odd percent on the purchase price. Great idea and glad to see it here in the UK at last!
Alice
Acadreamia.co.uk is the best place to rent in the UK, they brought this idea over a while ago and I used them to rent textbooks in my first and second semester this year! Customer service was dead helpful as well.
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Renting textbooks is a great idea. They are so expensive brand new…and really cannot be sold but for a fraction of their original cost. And to make matters worse..the version changes almost every year forcing you to buy new.