Rent textbooks for less. Compare before you pay.

Renting textbooks means that you pay a fee to use a textbook for a certain date range. Generally this is a semester, though some sites offer quarter, summer or custom rental periods. Textbook rentals tend to be much cheaper than buying a textbook.

Search by ISBN, title or author and we show the rental, used, new, eTextbook and sell-back prices we can get from the stores we compare, cheapest first, with shipping included where the store tells us. Rental periods are semester long (120+ days), quarter long (90 to 119 days) and session long (less than 90 days), chosen at the store.

College keeps getting more expensive, and while there isn't much you can do about tuition or room and board, you can cut what you spend on textbooks. Renting instead of buying saves a significant amount, and comparing several rental stores in one place saves even more.

Not really. A library loan is usually free unless you return it late. A textbook rental is more like renting a movie: you pay a small fee and can use the book for a set time.

Go to the site where you rented the textbook, log in to your account and print the return label. Return shipping is free in almost all cases. If you return a rental late you generally pay a small overage fee.