PSA to all university oppos, Amazon rents textbooks for cheap!

Kinja'd!!! "Anon" (tjsielsistneb)
08/13/2015 at 20:35 • Filed to: None

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I’m renting my three textbooks, which would of cost me $350 to rent from the bookstore, for $80! So yeah, go Amazon!


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Kinja'd!!! GeorgeyBoy > Anon
08/13/2015 at 20:42

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Books are for nerds.


Kinja'd!!! Frank Grimes > Anon
08/13/2015 at 20:56

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I was thinking of doing this. Have you done it before? What was the experience like?


Kinja'd!!! Frank Grimes > GeorgeyBoy
08/13/2015 at 20:56

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your mom went to college.


Kinja'd!!! RockThrillz89 > Anon
08/13/2015 at 21:07

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Also don’t forget to use smile.amazon.com

They donate a portion of sales of eligible products to a charity of your choice. Doesn’t cost anything extra and is exactly the same in every way to regular Amazon. Except charity.


Kinja'd!!! someassemblyrequired > Anon
08/13/2015 at 21:19

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We used to score all our books from the UK. Not sure if it saves as much as it did, but it used to save me like $400 a semester, so might be cheaper than renting. Just search by ISBN number on the Amazon.co.uk site.


Kinja'd!!! qbeezy > Anon
08/13/2015 at 21:23

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Except sometimes when you’re in master’s class, they’re only a few dollars below buying


Kinja'd!!! Anon > someassemblyrequired
08/13/2015 at 21:26

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That works too! But a lot of the time they get you on overseas shipping, however, if you can get cheap overseas shipping, it’s totally worth the to get international editions.


Kinja'd!!! someassemblyrequired > Anon
08/13/2015 at 21:32

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Ah it was $400 in savings after airfreight shipping. Not international editions either, brand new same as in the bookstore. Actually someone pointed out that they were actually printed in the U.S., shipped to England, only to get shipped back. My average savings after shipping was 50%. And that’s back in the day when buying £1 was $2.


Kinja'd!!! TheD0k_2many toys 2little time > Anon
08/14/2015 at 01:53

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or get them for free....

*cough* torrent *cough*


Kinja'd!!! ptak appreciates old racecars > Anon
08/16/2015 at 08:29

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Thanks for the heads-up!