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06-30-2010, 10:42 AM
#22
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: New Jersey
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Originally Posted by Alu_Rathbone
Originally Posted by brighmet
I have 2 kids that just graduated from college in May (yeah). I found a place that rents books by the semester. The website is
www.chegg.com. I think I saved around $1000 for the 2 years that we rented books. It may be worth it to check them out. They were buying the books from the bookstore and at the end of the semester selling them back but were either getting very minimal money back or the professor were changing books the next semester and the bookstore would not back them back.
Also you said you needed to get some Microsoft software. You should check with the bookstore or technology department. You should be able to buy that software for $20 or so. Microsoft has some kind of deal with the colleges.
Good luck with the book buying and with college in general.
www.chegg.com. I think I saved around $1000 for the 2 years that we rented books. It may be worth it to check them out. They were buying the books from the bookstore and at the end of the semester selling them back but were either getting very minimal money back or the professor were changing books the next semester and the bookstore would not back them back.
Also you said you needed to get some Microsoft software. You should check with the bookstore or technology department. You should be able to buy that software for $20 or so. Microsoft has some kind of deal with the colleges.
Good luck with the book buying and with college in general.
Thanks!
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06-30-2010, 11:03 AM
#23
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Nashua, NH
Posts: 1,463
Originally Posted by Alu_Rathbone
I can get the Microsoft Office Professional (Normally around 300 or more) for 80 bucks through their student discount thing. WHich is awesome, cause I'll have everything I'll need for school, and then some. They didn't offer the home and student though. Ah well... I'm going to find out more though.
06-30-2010, 04:28 PM
#29
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: ILL.
Posts: 3,515
Originally Posted by Pam
My son's school, Eastern Illinois RENTS books to the studends each semester! A flat fee, no matter how many books. What a novel concept, a school looking out for the student instead of trying to rip them off at the book store! Can you tell that over priced texts are my pet peeve?
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