Students may be interested in this article on renting textbooks: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/01/12/rent
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Students may be interested in this article on renting textbooks: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/01/12/rent
Agnes Scott College, McCain Library 
Personally I like the idea of renting, but sometimes I like to keep certain books from classes I really enjoyed. I understand that the main draw to renting is the price, but they actually aren’t always cheaper, and that coupled with the fact that I like to keep some of them often leads me to purchase mine. However, whether renting or purchasing, I use http:://www.bigwords.com to combat the high prices. They are a textbook search engine that searches all the online retailers and rental sites to find you the best prices. And for books you purchased you can even use them at the end of the semester to search for resellers to sell you books back to. It’s pretty cool.