Apr 10 2012

Rent College Books Instead of Buying

Rent College Books and Save Money

One of the first things new college students find out is how expensive it can be just to have the required textbooks for class. For some parents and students it drives home how serious college really is, and it can put a big dent into funds earmarked for higher education.

Renting College Books Makes Sense

To rent college books was not even an option a few short years ago, but now places like cengagebrain.com and TextBookStop.com have made it a simple matter to find what you need at a fraction of the cost that you would pay at the college bookstores.

If you happen to land on BookRenter.com while surfing the internet, you may hit on the concept that the cost to rent college books is much less than it is to buy them. More students are now renting than ever before because it has become more frugal. While every required textbook might not be available for rent, the range of those that are makes it well worth pursuing the savings.

Rent College Books Instead of Buying

If you have any doubts about why you should rent college books instead of buying, consider these reasons:

1. What is a textbook good for after the class is over? Most people never open a textbook once they graduate unless it is a reference they can use in their career. Information changes so rapidly that a textbook is generally useless four years after it is used anyway.

2. Resale of textbooks is depressing. If you can get anything at all for used textbooks, you must get it directly from students who need them or on trade-ins back to the bookstores for mere pennies on the dollars spent. It isn't unusual for them to promise to buy them and then change their minds. Selling books back to the store is pretty much just giving them away.

3. New releases of textbooks make old editions worthless. Textbooks constantly change and having an older edition means you can no longer resell it.

When you rent college books, the cost is low and you never have to worry about attempting to resell them. In most cases, if the books you need are not available for rental, the online store can sell used ones for much less than you can expect to pay at the college bookstore.

Students who have scholarships or grants also benefit when they rent college books because the savings can be applied to anything they might need in the way of supplies or just go back into their pockets to cover living expenses. For all intents and purposes, renting textbooks is the wisest decision a college student can make.

About Books

Joe

Apr 09 2012

Open Library

Openlibrary.org

"Open Library" is a non-profit internet project designed to create "one web page for every book ever published". The idea is to make all books available electronically, that's hundreds of millions of books! This database of books, or online library, uses a similar interface to Wikipedia so that entries can be corrected, or updated, and most importantly, so that people can add missing information. Anyone can contribute to this wonderful project!

This project has help from lots of different organizations. Many of the books available in this online database (openlibrary.org) have been donated and made available to borrow electronically by hundreds of libraries. Information has been collected from the Library of Congress, Amazon.com, and from every day users and members of the website. The project has received grants and monetary contributions from the California State Library and the Kahle/Austin Foundation. Open Library is always looking for contributions of information, books, and money. There are already over one million free ebooks available.

Renting textbooks instead of buying them.

One of the most costly aspects of going to college is buying all the textbooks that you will need every semester. Depending on where you go to school and what subjects you are studying the cost of textbooks alone can range anywhere from $400.00 to $600.00 per semester! Not only that but, once you are done with them, you basically have a big collection of books that have very little, if any value.

Well fret not dear student, because there are now a number of options for you to rent your textbooks. That’s correct, I said rent your textbooks. A number of entrepreneurs felt your pain (they were once starving students also) and they have started textbook rental websites where you can find, rent, use and then return your books for a fraction of the cist to buy them outright.

About Books

Greg

Apr 08 2012

Audiobooks

The collection of audiobooks will soon be online

The collection of free audiobooks will be online again in April or May.
Please come back again soon to download free audiobooks.

Audiobooks

Super User

Apr 07 2012

Review of the Hunger Games

Book review of The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins' "The Hunger Games" is a story about Katniss, who is a survivor in the word go; the lady hunts, barriers, and gathers to be able to give food to her mom and more youthful sibling even though she is only 16. Her closest friend is a man called Gale; he is some three years older than she, is also a hunter, and so they both evade the authorities within their dystopic near future with ease.

The Hunger Games Trilogy is the most captivating series I have ever read. There's a lots of violence and death however without it, the idea probably would not have been so powerful. Ms. Collins will have you holding your breath from page 1 all the way up to the finish. I consider personally a slow reader yet I devoured all 3 books in under 7 days.