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Rent vs. Buy

As nursing school starts to near I am wondering if it is better to buy all my books so I can look at them for future reference or save money and rent the books? My first quarter books are 700 dollars if I do buy them. If I do rent my books its 200 dollars.

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    If you will need them in other semesters, buy them. If they are only for the one, go ahead and rent. I kept all my books for years but never used them.

    My daughter used e books for her masters (not nursing), and was frustrated at not being able to have more than one book open at a time, and ended up buying a couple of cheap e-readers so that she could cross reference stuff. Kindle's cheap ones are about $60 or $80. Used are less.

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    What the PP said. I only kept the reference books from nursing school - none of the textbooks.

    If you rent the books and decide you'd like to keep some of them, you always have the option of buying at the end of the semester. Not so the other way around.

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    I agree. I am old ... and when I went to school, renting was not an option. I have spent thousands on books that were never used once the class was over.

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    I think buying some of them would be useful. I am currently working on my BSN and have used every book I kept as a reference. I know these books well and know where to go to reference a topic. Would I keep them all, probably not. The fundamentals, OB/PEDS, and my final Med/Surg book have been useful. I also kept a few reference books.

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