Textbook Rental Now An Option?

Posted on July 6th, 2009 in Books, Green Thoughts by Stacey Ewing

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If you can rent movies, why can’t you rent textbooks??  Well, apparently you can!

Last Saturday, the New York Times published an article about a couple of Textbook rental companies.  This particular article features two companies – Chegg: http://www.chegg.com and Book Renter: http://www.bookrenter.com/

A cursory Google search turned up two more companies:  Campus Book Rentals:  http://www.campusbookrentals.com and Skoobit: http://www.skoobit.com

On “Giving Back”
Chegg plants a tree for every  textbook they rent, Campus Book Rentals dontates money to OLPC, and Book Renter goes “green” a number of ways including the Green Press Initiative.

Have you ever rented a textbook?  If so, from where?  Was it a positive experience?

Share Books with the Community

Posted on May 15th, 2009 in Books, Fun|Create|Play, Green Thoughts by Stacey Ewing

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Have some books that you think you’d like to share with the community?   Consider using Book Crossing as a unique way of recycling your books by “releasing them into the wild” for others to find.

It’s really easy- sign up for an account (takes less than a minute) and then you register the book(s) you want to release. After that, all you have to do is leave the book(s) anywhere – a coffee shop, dorm couch, bench outside the library, laundromat, waiting room, etc.    Book Crossing will allow you to track your book’s journey around the world as it passes on from person to person.

Over 772,000 people around the world participate in Book Crossing.  Why not give it a try?  Maybe if enough of us band together, we can put Gainesville back on the Book Crossing map!

Find out more about Book Crossing here: http://www.bookcrossing.com/

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