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table cellpadding=”0″ cellspacing=”0″ class=”tr-caption-container” style=”float: right;”tbodytrtd style=”text-align: center;”a href=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AgaKzro268I/Ti3Baox0yHI/AAAAAAAAAgM/_wU9LZ4aFhc/s1600/317752unpbirjae.jpg” imageanchor=”1″ style=”clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;”img border=”0″ height=”200″ src=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AgaKzro268I/Ti3Baox0yHI/AAAAAAAAAgM/_wU9LZ4aFhc/s200/317752unpbirjae.jpg” width=”132″ //a/td/trtrtd class=”tr-caption” style=”text-align: center;”a href=”http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/images/view_photog.php?photogid=778″Credit: thephotoholic/a/td/tr/tbody/tableWell, I’m not…neither are any of my children…yet… But for those of you that do have college bound kids did you know that there are places you can strongurent/u/strong textbooks?!? Yeah…for real…br /br /My memories of college textbook-getting involved standing in line for stronghours/strong to go to the used textbook sale because I wasn’t going to pay full price of at least $100 eachnbsp;textbooks! This was during the pre-internet, pre-online ordering, pre-convenience era em{because the internet was an itty-bitty baby}/em.br /br /It is a whole new world for college students and since I haven’t had to deal with anyone going off to college I did not know renting textbooks existed.nbsp; There are sooooo many reason I wish I had had this waaaaaay back when:br /olliIt would have saved me time./liliIt would have saved me money./liliI would not have dragged around boxes of textbooks on every military move because strongrenting means returning/strong!!/li/olemSo where can college kids rent their textbooks?/embr /br /The two I discovered are:br /a href=”http://www.dpbolvw.net/click-5292856-10735994″ onmouseout=”window.status=’ ‘;return true;” onmouseover=”window.status=’http://www.bookrenter.com’;return true;” target=”_blank”Bookrenter.com/aimg border=”0″ height=”1″ src=”http://www.awltovhc.com/image-5292856-10735994″ width=”1″ /br /br /a href=”http://www.jdoqocy.com/click-5292856-10685987″ onmouseout=”window.status=’ ‘;return true;” onmouseover=”window.status=’http://www.ecampus.com’;return true;” target=”_blank”eCampus.com/aimg border=”0″ height=”1″ src=”http://www.awltovhc.com/image-5292856-10685987″ width=”1″ /br /br /I had heard about eCampus.com back when the Army sent my hubby back to college, but BookRenter.com is a newer name to me. I discovered there are eTextbooks that can be downloaded from eCampus.com. a href=”http://www.dpbolvw.net/click-5292856-10735994″ onmouseout=”window.status=’ ‘;return true;” onmouseover=”window.status=’http://www.bookrenter.com’;return true;” target=”_blank”Bookrenter.com/aimg border=”0″ height=”1″ src=”http://www.awltovhc.com/image-5292856-10735994″ width=”1″ /nbsp;allows the renter to highlight and write in their books!nbsp; Really?!? Obtaining your textbooks for college has come a looooong way!br /br /Because some colleges are only weeks away from starting, there are coupons floating around that I found.br /br /nbsp;a href=”http://www.jdoqocy.com/click-5292856-10685987″ onmouseout=”window.status=’ ‘;return true;” onmouseover=”window.status=’http://www.ecampus.com’;return true;” target=”_blank”eCampus.com/abr /Enter code RONBURGANDY to receive $3 anything over $60 br /Enter code RICKYBOBBY receive $4 off anything over $80br /Enter code FRANKTHETANK to receive $5 off anything over $100br /br /Odd code names, but whatever works!br /br /I am not sure how much you can save compared to purchasing textbooks directly from other students, but any savings on expensive textbooks is a bonus. Plus, it doesn’t hurt to have all the options when buying textbooks for college. br /br /Almost makes me want to go back to college…ummmm…not really. br /a href=”http://www.aghdesigns.com/images/blogs/siggy4.png” target=”_blank”img alt=”Anna” border=”0″ src=”http://www.aghdesigns.com/images/blogs/siggy4.png” //a