It’s not too late to save money on textbooks! Everyone knows how pricey one semester’s worth of textbooks can be, so here are some tricks to help you save loads.
Timing Is Key – You’re most likely to get a great deal on books if you’re buying really early or really late. As soon as you find out your class schedule for the next semester, buy your books! Procrastinating will leave you with substantially higher buying and renting prices during peak textbook purchasing time. However, if you procrastinate too much, you’ll still be fine. Wait till the semester has been underway for about a week or so (deal with sharing a textbook with a friend until then), then rent or purchase your books. Prices will plummet after the new semester starts.
Share With Friends – If you and your friends are taking the same classes, share textbooks! You’ll most likely choose to study together for every big exam anyways, so why not save yourselves some money in the process? That expensive chem textbook will suddenly drop from $180 to $90, and that French workbook will go from $40 to $20 – talk about cheap!
E-textbooks – Now e-learning is definitely not for everyone. However, for those who can still learn and study without a hard copy of a book, the benefits you can reap in savings are insane! By choosing an e-book, you can save up to 75% -- it doesn’t get better than that!
We all know how expensive textbook shopping is; it is definitely a necessary evil though. Never skip out on buying your books because you’d rather have a new Xbox for your room or you think you really need a new pair of Steve Madden heels. You never know when you’re going to end up with a super-strict professor or a class that’s really going to challenge you, so it’s better to be safe than sorry. Remember, if you end up getting a book and realizing that you don’t really need it for your class, you can always return it – almost all textbook renting and buying sites have a flexible return policy.
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