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Geek Stew Mentioned on Educated Nation Blog
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Alexa Harrington from Educated Nation | Higher Education Blog was all jazzed to read about Chegg.com. (You know - that incredibly neat-o site that lets students rent textbooks instead of buying them?) It’s been the subject of the featured post on the main Geek Stew homepage for most of the summer.
Alexa talks about that post on her blog a few days ago. Here’s a link to the post. Thanks for the mention Alexa, and I’m sorry to hear that you weren’t able to ever take advantage of it while you were in school!
I’ve been reading Educated Nation since January when I made some new friends in the college blogging scene. It’s a great site that features insightful posts about higher education. If you don’t already, you should subscribe to their feed.
Oh yeah - quit procrastinating and go rent your books for fall semester.
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I know text books are expensive, and I made my share of trips to the ASU bookstore and the College bookstore (near Mill Ave) trying to find cheaper used books, but I am not so sure about renting books.
Some of the books that I treasure and are on my bookshelf right now, are the textbooks from philosophy and other classes I took at ASU. These books will never go out of style. If I had rented these, they wouldn’t be with me right now…..
Don’t waste money at Coffee Plantation (or Starbucks) instead by the text books that will last you a lifetime.
@ Alan–Thanks and you’re welcome! I fully admit to being stoked about textbook rentals.
@Saqib–I agree with you that not all textbooks are rentable; it was instilled in me from an early age by both of my science professor grandfathers that all important texts should be bought new, taken care of, and kept forever as reference texts. I still have the biology textbooks my maternal grandfather used at Harvard in the 1930’s. Some are written in German and I can’t read them, but the anatomy illustrations are amazing and the sentimental value is beyond price.
So, yes, some texts are worth buying and keeping. But some general ed books, anything not related to your field of study, or anything not worthwhile as a reference text can definitely be rented.
Alan,
I thought you might be interested in this:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121565135185141235.html
College students, already struggling with soaring tuition bills and expenses, are encountering yet another financial hit: Publishers and schools are working together to produce “custom” textbooks that can limit students’ use of the money-saving trade in used books.