I really want to make sure my tips are SAVING people money and helping you make sound school technology purchases!

My 1st tip to kickoff the month long series of my “Back to School Tech Tips” starts with renting NOT buying textbooks. On average U.S. college students spend $1,122 each year for text books. The rental websites in many cases saves you 50% or more for renting the book not owning it. I don’t know about you but I wish they had this around when I was in school I NEVER made out on selling books back to the bookstore.

Here is a short video of my CNN segment (TUNE IN every Sat at 8:20am EDT or set your DVR :-)

Here are some of the sites I mentioned this week on CNN:

http://www.Chegg.com – been around for quite some time, some people have called it the Netflix of online book rentals. Ohh and one neat thing about CHEGG is that they apparently are an eco-friendly company,  they plant a tree for every book rented.

http://www.RentScouter.com – this site is like a comparison shopping website that searches for a variety of costs for the book you are interested in, whether its new, used, or rental. It’s like a travelocity for book prices.

What do you think? What websites have you used that I missed? Have/Will you rent textbooks? Please share your tips and advice in the comments so others may learn and benefit!