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Rent Your Books This Fall and Save Coin
If you’re a procrastinator like me, you are probably not thinking much about fall semester. Especially not about the books that you are going to need for your classes. Hopefully this will help motivate you to get off your butt and save yourself some money on your books.
At the beginning of this semester, I wrote passionately about my outrageous text book costs for two of my classes. It sparked some great comments from classmates and professors, and has turned into one of Geek Stew’s most popular posts.
A week after my initial post published, the State Press ran a story about Chegg.com. (The link is to download a PDF copy of the original story.) Chegg.com is a site that allows students to rent text books at a FRACTION of the cost of purchasing. If I had known about Chegg, I could have saved about $300 this semester. Live and learn, right kids?
For your book-renting convenience, there’s a button at the top of Geek Stew that will take you to Chegg.com. I also updated their search tool in the sidebar so you can search for your books by entering in the Author/Title/ISBN number.
Oh - and to give you a warm fuzzy, Chegg.com will plant a tree for every book you rent.
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Where the eff was this when I was in school? I’m so, so glad someone finally came up with this. Thanks for the info!
Alexa,
Seriously. It’s only been around for a little while…Spread the word…
Alan,
I’m on it.
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