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Was looking for a cheap place to purchase my law textbook and ran across Chegg.com featured on BigWords.com where you can rent your textbooks for the semester or college quarter. Included in the price of shipping is a prepaid label to ship the book back to them at the end of the semester (125 days).

My book was $128 list price, Chegg had it for "rent" for $46.08. They offer regular and express shipping and source their books from several sources all across the US. Mine was sourced from Amazon.com. I chose express shipping- 2-6 day ($7.98) and my book will be here Tuesday (2-day shipping from Amazon).

No worries about reselling it, just ship it back at their expense. That's what appealed to me. They will also allow you to highlight in the book without penalty.

Oh yeah, for what it's worth, they plant a tree for every book you rent.

Link to Chegg

Arrrggghhh! The book I just bought yesterday for $52 could have been rented for $22.36. Renting textbooks is a great idea. I wish I'd thought of it first.

i just bought a 70 dollar one that woulda cost 41 to rent.....sigh.

some of the books even cost more to rent than buy used

None of my books is available.

captainbozo said:The school I went to had a rental system for books that they planned on using for a few years.

A few years are like eternity in the textbook business. Most of them intentionally change editions every semester just to milk the students.

farang said:captainbozo said:The school I went to had a rental system for books that they planned on using for a few years. They charged $5 per credit hour so those huge, expensive science books only cost $25 to rent. It was a great system.

What school was that??

Missouri Southern State University. I see they've raised it to $7/hour since I left.

I've looked at this, but not a good deal.

As previous posters stated, used books are about the same price.

Second, if your book is new (as in OP's case), it should be exactly why you don't want to rent from chegg! It is because since it is a new book, your book will definitely be used next semester and that means you can sell it used to someone on your campus, craigslist, online, etc. You can recuperate about 80% of your book purchase, so you are only spending about 20% for books that semester. With renting from chegg, you have to pay 50% of the MSRP and then lose it afterwards????? Geez, most bookstores don't even sell MSRP, so you are losing more! Geez.... I feel my stomach churning thinking about the people who rented from chegg...

rt80639 said:I'm getting my MBA right now, and over the last five semesters I've probably broken even on textbooks. Buy from the cheapest site, then sell it on Amazon when you're done. Most of the time, you'll be within $20 of your original buying price, and I even made money on a few of them. Renting a $100+ textbook for $40? Why not buy it, use it, and resell it for $100?

It depends. Some obscure textbooks on oddball subjects have no resale value. It's probably better to rent them.

their prices are high.. you can BUY those books cheaper online if you look in the right places......oh and then sell them too