CampusBookRentals – A Site I Am So Grateful For Because It Saves Me Lots Of Money

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If you’re a regular reader then you may recall that I graduated from the local college a couple of weeks ago. I’m currently taking the last class I need for my Associates degree. The college only has one ceremony where you can walk per year, so they let me participate in that provided I complete this last class before the end of summer. As I’m finishing up my Associates, I’m also getting ready for the next step. My Batchelor’s Degree. I’m enrolled in a four year school and will begin taking courses towards a BA in Communications on July 1. That means I need more textbooks. I priced them from the college and they were crazy expensive there, just as had been the case for the last two semesters at my local college. (So expensive I wrote a huge front page article for the paper on the expense of college textbooks.) This time around I knew exactly how to deal with the situation – use CampusBookRentals.
I will be taking two courses in the first term. That’s two books that are required. If I purchased those two books from the college bookstore, it would have cost me $162.75 plus tax and shipping.

That’s a lot of money for two books, isn’t it!
If I rent those exact same two books from CampusBookRentals, the cost is $58.01 and shipping is free.

That’s a difference of over $100! That’s a HUGE savings! Students can save 40-90% off of bookstore prices by renting their texts from CampusBookRentals. Plus, you get free shipping both ways too!
Now if you’re not familiar with CampusBookRentals, you may wonder some of the same things I wondered when I first learned about them. In answer to your question,
YES you can highlight in rented textbooks!
YES you can determine when your book is due back, just in case the rental periods offered don’t work for you.
And there’s a plus to renting from CampusBookRentals as well. CampusBookRentals donates to Operation Smile with each textbook rented. Operation Smile is an organization that performs life changing cleft lip surgeries on children whose families could not otherwise afford it.
Here’s a brief video explaining how renting textbooks from CampusBookRentals works.

CampusBookRentals recently started offering a new service – RentBack.
RentBack is something new that allows students to rent the textbooks they own to other students. Perfect for people like me that purchased textbooks from their college bookstore before learning about CampusBookRentals. This service makes the students money, on average it’s 2-4x more money compared to what they’d make through college bookstore buyback programs. That’s very cool!
Here’s a brief video explaining how RentBack works.

If you or someone in your family is starting college this fall, or is already in college, CampusBookRentals is a place you definitely want to go when you’re getting textbooks.
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