Considering Renting My College textbooks?

Toya Braskett: Used books (and rentals) will not come with codes. You will always have to buy codes "new". Codes are one-person access, so whoever used it before will have it (and if it's a rental, it never came with it to begin with). In the past, I have bought access codes separately from the rented material. For my past math courses and language courses, they required an access code and a text, too. You had the option of: buying the book new with an access code in one package; buying the book used and also the access code separately; or renting the book and buying the access code separately. If you buy a code, do not open up its sealed packaged until your professor confirms that yes, you do need the code -- if you open and access it, you can not "return" it for a refund whatsoever.Oh, and those DVDs that come with them are usually optional and not needed. For a rental, they should be there. I have never ever had to have the DVD but it's helped.And as for the workbooks! ? I bought a workbook once, because we needed to actually write in it and tear out pages. But an other time I rented one once because we didn't need to write in it, just answer questions that were in it on a separate sheet of paper. When it comes to workbooks, it really just depends on the course.You will do well to buy the books for your major but rent the books for your general education courses and electives....Show more