<p>kind of a neat concept...</p>
<p>Chegg.com</a> - Cheap Textbook Rentals. Search for Used Textbooks and Rent College Textbooks.</p>
<p>they even plant a tree every time you order a book</p>
<p>i used that for half my books. saved me so much money.</p>
<p>My friend used that. They sent one of her books late, but other than that, she liked it and said she saved a lot of money. I was searching it, and they didn't always have the right editions of the books that I needed, so I decided to just get them from the bookstore.</p>
<p>On the first book I searched up, I got these results:
$33 for the semester: Chegg.com</a> - Rent Principles of Quantum Mechanics | 0306447908 | 9780306447907
$47 to own: Principles</a> of Quantum Mechanics - ISBN10: 0306447908; ISBN13: 9780306447907 :: Textbooks.com > HOME >; BROWSE >;</p>
<p>I'm sure you'd easily be able to eBay it for the $14 difference.</p>
<p>Second book:
$44 to rent: Chegg.com</a> - Rent Structure and Bonding in Crystalline Materials | 0521663792 | 9780521663793
$60 to buy: Millions</a> of Books at Incredible Prices - Textbooks, Trading Books, Books of all Kinds! - More Information</p>
<p>Again, I'm sure you could make that money up by selling it on eBay or selling it to people a year behind you.</p>
<p>I usually buy used and then sell them. Try to make even, but often they stop using that edition and I can't sell it.</p>
<p>I would think that renting would COST you more since you cant resell it if you are just borrowing the book. At least you can make some of your money back if you buy it and resell it.</p>
<p>^^^^</p>
<p>great point. Even if your school only reimburses you for half of the cost, the $60 book you bought becomes $30, while the rental was still $44. As long as you don't ravage your books, you should be able to sell them for pretty close to the new price to people taking the class after you.</p>
<p>I've used Chegg for all of my graduate school books. All the books I received for rental were brand new. For three classes, my books for rental only cost $100 for the semester. In running a comparison, I was looking at shelling out $400 if they would have been bought by comparison shopping. In some cases, Chegg works wonderfully.</p>
<p>My school actually has a Textbook Rental program. It costs $18.33 per course to rent the book for the semester. Then if you decide to buy the book, that $18.33 is credited toward the purchase if done during the semester.</p>
<p>i used to like buying used just to get it cheap and then resell it but it's just a big hassle (at least for me) to go through the process of reselling and waiting for someone to buy. some of the books are either too cheap to sell that it makes no sense to even buy it used or by the time I have the book, a new edition comes out the next year.</p>
<p>to just rent a book, the prices actually aren't that great.</p>
<p>excellent idea! i wish the library loaned them out for longer..but then again everyone would do that and no books to be found</p>
<p>I did that this year, and honestly I'm not going to do it again. I'll just buy used ones. They didn't even SEND one of my books, and they sent the rest really late.</p>
<p>Also, for lab books where you have to tear out the pages you've done, it's way too inconvenient to have to photocopy all of them. I wish I'd thought of this before hand, but it's my freshman year so I didn't realize lab books had pages you could tear out.</p>
<p>And if you're looking for a book that comes with a CD, you shouldn't use Chegg, because they don't guarantee that the books they rent out COME with the CDs. Really, it's not as great as it sounds.</p>
<p>And I agree with the people who said it's a waste of money. I ended up just buying three of my books at my college.</p>
<p>I sold some of my old books to Chegg for a credit and then I ordered my entire schedule of books from them (rental). The price was outstanding. I paid $281 for 7 books and buying 2 of them from the bookstore would have cost me more than that. Its getting harder selling books on Half.com and other places because it seems there is a new edition out every semester now! If all goes well with these rentals I will try not to buy again.</p>
<p>well you should look to rent only when it makes sense. sometimes you can get a cheap used book for around the same price as a rental. the added bonus is that you can possibly sell the book after the semester. this isn’t always the case, but just pointing out you shouldn’t automatically look to rent books.</p>
<p>Probably wouldn’t rent the book as I can usually find a copy similar or cheaper to the rent. Also, my city’s library usually has a copy I need or I’ll borrow it from upperclassmen. </p>
<p>RacinReaver, what major are you in? Physics? Those books seem interesting LOL XD</p>
<p>I rented two out of three books from Chegg this semester, with the other book being cheaper to get as an international edition. They came very quickly (within three days of ordering) and are in good condition. Someone wrote in the first few pages of my French book though (which is very annoying, because they wrote translations in English).</p>
<p>I saved a ton of money on the books I chose to rent. I’m very happy and will probably do it again, but do check sites like BigWords and such to make sure it is the best deal possible!</p>
<p>Renting textbooks really only works when your books are really expensive. If the book only costs $40 you aren’t going to rent it for like $10, but the difference really is remarkable when your book costs $200 and you can rent it for $50.</p>
<p>I rent all my books unless I can buy it used for no more than $20 more or if it’s a workbook or lab book.</p>
<p>Other sites:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.campusbookrentals.com/[/url]”>http://www.campusbookrentals.com/</a>
<a href=“http://www.bookrenter.com/[/url]”>http://www.bookrenter.com/</a></p>
<p>Some other alternatives are [College</a> Books Rental, Inc – CBR, Inc.](<a href=“http://www.cbrinc.net/]College”>http://www.cbrinc.net/) and [Cheap</a> Textbook Rentals! Rent Used Textbooks & New College Textbooks Online | BookRenter.com](<a href=“http://www.bookrenter.com/]Cheap”>http://www.bookrenter.com/)</p>
<p>With renting, you already admit that you will lose that much money. Plus there are time limits, which aren’t always great if you have a delayed final or miscalculated days in the semester.</p>
<p>With buying you still have a chance that you can sell for a maybe equal price, get a little more, or lose an equivalent price as renting. You also have the option of keeping it.</p>