(image courtesy Textbook Exchange)

Textbooks are crazy expensive. Somehow, information that hasn’t changed in years gets more valuable each semester, despite the number of previous editions! No, I’m not bitter that I had to buy 6 different versions of Plato’s Republic in college, why do you ask? And don’t get me started on the slow acceptance of e-textbooks, or the dismal failure of the Kindle DX in its trial run at a handful of colleges.

Barnes and Noble isn’t quite going so far as to hand out nooks full of textbooks (how cool would that be?!), but they are offering a textbook rental program at select colleges. If you’re too lazy to resell your books at the end of the semester, or you just want a cheaper up-front bill, this is not a bad deal. Also, it leaves you more money to blow on some of the hot new items released in the wake of CES!

Via Lifehacker