Chegg.com = Ability to Buy Groceries AND Textbooks
I hate buying textbooks with a passion, and I know I’m not the only one. A book can easily cost $80, no sweat, and if it’s my Art History book, up to $150. I go to school full time. That’s at least $300 on books, if I’m super DUPER lucky. Why on earth to people think that is okay to charge us so much ridiculously much, when the reason we are in school and having to pay for these classes and books, is because we are attaining a degree, and more than likely have yet to find a decent paying job? Then the school says “oh yeah, we’ll buy your books back” but for a quarter of the price, and in the end you still spent $80 on a book you wont read again. Joy.
But, there is a white knight in shining armour that has come to save all of us students in great distress: Chegg.com. It is pure awesomeness. I visited the site for the first time today to get AJ’s books for his classes, and spent a total of $60 on two textbooks, $70 including shipping. He can use them the whole semester, and has to send them back before June 6th, AND Chegg pays for the cost of the return shipping.
If you’re really desperate, you can pay for overnight shipping, but I think AJ will be okay with using the library until Tuesday, which saves us $25. Unfortunately, my book was unavailable, but it’s for History of Nonwestern Art, which I doubt is an extremely common book, so I understand. Overall, it was really easy, quick, and now I can still go grocery shopping later so we can eat food this week, without going completely broke.
I’ve also found that a good alternative to expensive, hard cover books, is ebooks. They don’t have all textbooks available as ebooks yet, but I did have the pleasure of buying my American History book as an ebook for only $20 from Powells.com. Coursesmart.com is also a good site for ebooks, where I bought my Online Spanish Lab code, AND ebook for $45. At the UCF bookstore, it cost $133.85 used, and $82 minimun just for the online access code. It makes me happy to know I saved a ton of money.
PS: Pic of Chegg found here, and my history teacher sounds like the teacher from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (you know… “Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?”), which inspired me to write this post so I wouldn’t fall asleep.
