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Chegg lets students rent college textbooks and save money.

Chegg is an online college textbook rental service.  Instead of buying cheap textbooks, Chegg lets you rent them for a 60% or greater discount.  Chegg has any subject you might need, including history, science, and math textbooks.  If you decide you want to keep your books at the end of the semester, you can easily buy them.  You can also sell you textbooks to Chegg online.

YouTube has a good video review by 9malls. The speaker goes over some of the basic services Chegg offers.  He notes that Chegg allows moderate highlighting in rentals, and goes on to recommend the service.  >>>

Factoidz goes over some other details about the textbook rental service.  They note that Chegg offers Biology, Literature, Political Science, and other subjects. The reviewer also notes that you can generally save about 60% by renting your textbooks online instead of buying them.  Finally the reviewer noted that books are promptly delivered within 4-7 days.  >>>

FUCC wrote a short, positive introduction to the service, noting that student can register for free with a university email address. Read the rest of this entry »