This week marks the beginning of Finals Week for me. Although quite honestly it feels like I've been in finals since before Thanksgiving! My busiest week of my entire college career was last week, when I had two huge final presentations, a term paper, and a digital project due. Somehow I survived! But sadly I am not done yet, since actual exams are this week. Just a few more days to get through and then I will be on my way home for winter break! (Although there will not be a lot of resting for me in the first few days that I'm home... silly me scheduled a bunch of work hours at my job at home... although money is always good!)
Anyways, as all college students know, the end of one semester means that it's already time to start thinking ahead and looking at books for next semester! You definitely don't want to be that student who gets back to school during the first week and can't get a copy of a textbook because the campus bookstore and many only retailers are sold out of a book (or have raised prices!). The campus bookstore is almost always the most expensive place to get a book, so I generally try to avoid shopping for textbooks there if I can. I am a huge fan of renting books. It is such a pain to try and sell books back at the end of a semester (and I don't think I've ever really made my money's worth back), so renting and then mailing them back after finals is easy and works so well for me!
CampusBookRentals.com is one of my favorite textbook retailers to rent from! I have done posts with them before here on the blog, and I am a big fan of their company. Here are some perks about choosing to rent your textbooks with CampusBookRentals.com:
- You will save 40-90% off of bookstore prices.
- They offer free shipping both ways.
- You can highlight in the textbooks.
- They have flexible renting periods.
- CampusBookRentals.com makes a charitable donation to Operation Smile with each textbook rented- so you can feel good about choosing to rent with them!
Lastly, I wanted to share a personal experience that I had with CampusBookRentails.com. Last semester after writing my blog post for them, I ordered a textbook through them for one of my communications classes. My college posts all of the required books for each class through the bookstore a few weeks before each semester starts, so I always log on there to get my book list, and then I copy and paste the ISBN numbers to websites like CampusBookRentals.com to find my books.
I did exactly this last semester, and got the correct communications book in the mail from CampusBookRentals. But then I showed up to class on the first day.... and discovered that my school bookstore had posted the wrong book, so therefore I had rented the wrong book! My teacher didn't seem that worried about it at all, and just said to go to the school bookstore and inform them that it was there mistake. But I was freaking out since I had used CampusBookRentals.com and not the school bookstore. It wasn't the fault of CampusBookRenatls at all, it was clearly the fault of my school bookstore, but neither could do much about it! Anyways, I quickly called CampusBookRentals, explained the situation, and they were so helpful! (Did I also mention that I got to talk to a real person on the phone and not an automated voicemail? LOVE that!) They said they totally understood the situation, and even though they were not at fault (it was all the fault of my college bookstore), they quickly put the correct book in the mail to me and let me return the book I had originally gotten without any extra fees. How awesome is that?!
So clearly I am a big fan of CampusBookRentals.com, and I think that any fellow college students reading this should be to! (This post is also my reminder to myself to return my books that are due for this semester soon... :-) )
Don't forget to enter the giveaway for a $25 Amazon gift card that ends this Wednesday!
xoxo Miss ALK
I did exactly this last semester, and got the correct communications book in the mail from CampusBookRentals. But then I showed up to class on the first day.... and discovered that my school bookstore had posted the wrong book, so therefore I had rented the wrong book! My teacher didn't seem that worried about it at all, and just said to go to the school bookstore and inform them that it was there mistake. But I was freaking out since I had used CampusBookRentals.com and not the school bookstore. It wasn't the fault of CampusBookRenatls at all, it was clearly the fault of my school bookstore, but neither could do much about it! Anyways, I quickly called CampusBookRentals, explained the situation, and they were so helpful! (Did I also mention that I got to talk to a real person on the phone and not an automated voicemail? LOVE that!) They said they totally understood the situation, and even though they were not at fault (it was all the fault of my college bookstore), they quickly put the correct book in the mail to me and let me return the book I had originally gotten without any extra fees. How awesome is that?!
So clearly I am a big fan of CampusBookRentals.com, and I think that any fellow college students reading this should be to! (This post is also my reminder to myself to return my books that are due for this semester soon... :-) )
Don't forget to enter the giveaway for a $25 Amazon gift card that ends this Wednesday!
xoxo Miss ALK
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