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Black Friday is coming soon—the annual shopping extravaganza where we’re expected to join millions of people rushing to stores and websites to get the best deals on electronics, clothing, books, and more. Have you ever thought about the environmental consequences of our consumerism?

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Being a college student is an exciting phase of life filled with opportunities. However, it can also be financially challenging, with all those tuition fees, textbooks, accommodation, and other expenses piling up. But fear not! In this blog post, we will explore some of the ways you can save money during college. From the obvious to the less known, these money-saving tips will help you make the most of your time as a student and ease your financial burden.

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We love books at BooksRun! And we care about making textbooks affordable for others! We love sharing as well! Every day our data scientists monitor textbooks’ prices on the market to make sure we continue offering the lowest prices on used textbooks for you, our dear readers! Below you will find a list of the top 10 purchased or rented textbooks in this season:

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It’s a common fact that many students are not so eager to spend a lot of money on textbooks, especially those they know they’ll need for just one semester. That’s why as students, we’ve been able to find easy ways out of this dilemma and not spend a fortune on textbooks. Today, we will eagerly share with you where to buy cheap textbooks.

Read more > “Cheap Textbooks and How to Get Textbooks for Free”

BooksRun aims to save student money by helping them purchase used textbooks and giving a chance to sell them back later. We carefully monitor the most popular college textbooks so that our students start their textbook search as early as possible and have their books at hand before the start of the semester. With millions of books in stock, it has never been an easy task to establish best-selling college books! Nevertheless, we always try to do it to reveal the books that might be hard to find each year, so make sure you start your book-hunting process ASAP!

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As a student, you are strongly aware of the high costs of textbooks. Moreover, you might have noticed that every time you purchase a textbook, you receive a pitch from the publisher to upgrade for some extra add-ons without which, according to the publisher, you will struggle to understand the course and excel in your studies. This has become a trend for the tech industry either: when you buy new software, you receive advice immediately on what you can purchase next. It can be a tech-support subscription (because we live at the era of services), a wider variety of content, customized- templates, etc. Nowadays there are always ways to make us, general customers, pay more and have extra fees… In the publishing industry, this has turned out into a profitable business model when students buying textbooks need to have the code for practicing additional tests associated with these books. Therefore, it puts extra worries on students if they are trying to save money by purchasing second-hand textbooks. Below we will try to demystify certain beliefs about these access codes for students.

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As a regular student most of the time you are in the position when you need money to cover up your running costs at the college or to save up some money for vacation traveling. One of the simplest options to earn extra cash available to you as a student is to sell your textbooks to marketplaces and buyback companies. Now it is quite a popular service and a lot of students have heard about it.

Read more > “Best Time To Sell Your Textbooks”

Bill Gates is the key figure of the 20th century whose phenomenon has been studied numerous times and even today his biography provides a source of inspiration for a contemporary generation of youngsters who dream of achieving success one day. He is a textbook genius who was allowed to pursue his computer interests instead of coming to school classes. At the age of 15, he built a software program on the General Electric Machine to optimize road traffic and sold it for $20,000! Here we will have a look at Bill Gates’ early life and will see how it led subsequently to a road of success and worldwide celebrity status. What can we learn from Bill Gates’ story? We will see that despite all this recognition, he has not lost his interest in people and he has even rediscovered himself to the world as one of the most generous charity donors in history.

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We live in a time when forests disappearing in a week and floods destroying towns and villages become the norm of our life. Here at BooksRun, we care about our planet and we want to make sure that we pass our planet to our grandchildren in a decent state — that’s why we partner with ONETREEPLANTED. Bearing this in mind, we launched our BooksRun Loyalty program to support you, our dear readers, in going green since buying, renting or selling used books is a way to minimize the deforestation and carbon footprint. Below you will find information on how to earn points and what you will get if you sign up for our Let’s Go Green Together Initiative.

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Whether you’re the kind of person who ponders on the possible setbacks of our fast-growing advancement in technology or you’re the kind who welcomes with open arms any means of making life easier with technology, the rate at which new electronic devices and machines are being produced and improved doesn’t seem likely to come to an end. And more often than not, each new advancement comes with a handful of positive aspects, as well as negative, and eBook is a perfect example.

Read more > “The Pros and Cons of eBooks”

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