04-26-2012, 04:37 PM
With my current child, not much if any. He is 500 miles away and the required texts don't seem to be released far enough in advance to do an addall, amazon or half.com search. My older kids went to fairly local universities and we were able to get ISBN intel early and saved a lot on books. The current trend seems to be rentals--my college student has been doing rentals for Gen Eds and non major course where he doesn't want to keep the textbook for reference material. Student organization or Greek book exchanges can also save money without the Bookstore as a middleman. Unfortunately I'm not as lucky as rgG, my childs book expenses are closer to a grand a semester. I think he has had engineering texts that blew past $300 for a single book.