College Textbooks (Rent vs. Buy)

A long-standing question for more college/universality students (I think) is "Should I buy or rent my textbook?" and today I will try to answer this question.

Renting

Renting a textbook from the campus bookstore or amazon is a good way to save money and space after your term ends. It's most likely that you'll never use/read it again and you just don't want it in the first place, but it was mandatory. While renting a book can save money it can also lose you money. There are terms and conditions to renting a textbook:

1. The textbook cannot be highlighted or written in: These actions count as damage to the book (like ripping or tearing of the pages) meaning you'll have to pay to have it repaired or replaced.

2. You have to return it on time: A rented textbook like every other thing in a dorm room/house/apartment can get lost, packed away, or stolen. Even if you get the book back and in good condition you could be late returning it causing you to pay a late fee

3. You might need it for finals: At the end of the term, you might have a final and need to reread the textbook cramming three days before your test, but the return date is four days before the final. Trying to avoid a late fee you turn it in on time but can study, only leaving your notes that are less than perfect (unless you're the notes goat than yay for you).

Buying

Buying you can mark it up and not worry if you rip it or lose it and not late fee needs to be paid. This way you can read it again in the future if you are board or writing an academic paper after graduation or applying the skills to your job. Even giving them to your kid to read if they want to. Even if you don't want it after the class, you can sell it back to the bookstore for a percent of the piece you paid. There are really good benefits in buying:

1. You can highlight and mark up the textbook: Marked up and highlighted notes that lead to highlighted passages in the text helps a lot with studying.

You lose it for a while after Class, ok: there is no late fee and if you find it right before finales you can cram and not have to worry about a late fee.

Concluding

At the end of the day, it's your money and education, buying or renting is all up to you. I just hope that my post shed a little light on the deicing process