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Update: Chegg Rental Textbooks

Well, Chegg shipped quickly and I got my books a few days earlier than expected. They. came in 3 boxes, 2 from Chegg directly and one from Amazon – I assume they ran out of that one, so I have on fancy brand new rental book They’re all in good condition, with only one looking [...]

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Chegg.com – Renting Your College Textbooks

Chegg’s slogan? “Don’t buy it.” As I mentioned yesterday, I have seven books to buy for fall semester – which would total $515 to purchase new from the bookstore, or $419 used. Instead, I only bought one book from the school, because it wasn’t available used anywhere. The other six were rented from Chegg.com, a [...]

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How to find textbooks for less?

Fall semester starts for me on the 24th, so that meant it was time to login to the ASU system and look at my book list. It was looking pretty brutal going over the list – I’m taking 2 difficult lecture courses (OCHEM and Developmental Anatomy), the lab for DA and a writing-intensive online course. [...]

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