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Comment by Shelly McIntosh on May 4, 2012 at 7:10pm

Cheryl - thanks! That's really helpful!

Comment by Shelley Muzio on May 4, 2012 at 3:53pm

The advice we received from one of the students at our Campus Tour was to spend extra money on a good bike lock, and for the bike, just get a used bike that gets you around campus, less likely to be stolen that way.

 

Comment by Cheryl on May 4, 2012 at 3:29pm

My son tried renting from the ASU bookstore.  It was a mess!  He got the book before leaving for school, then found out he could skip the class (English 101).  He returned the book before school started, as directed.  At the end of the fall semester he got a note saying he needed to return the book.  After much frustration and many trips to the bookstore, along with calls from home, it turns out that my son DID turn in his book.  I was told by the manager that my son's return wasn't handled correctly, even though he did everything as directed.  Maybe others have been fine renting, but we're done.  If you buy a book and sell it back it ends up being about the same as the rental price. 

Comment by Jan Schmidt on May 4, 2012 at 3:27pm

About the books...Every class is different - the professors do the choosing. Sometimes it's a new class - hence no used books. What's really bad is when they insist that you get the new, updated edition, only to find out they only changed a few items! My guess is that every semester, more & more will be available as e-books.

Comment by Melinda Lowrance on May 4, 2012 at 2:54pm

Are there many books availabe for the Kindle or the Nook?

Comment by Shelly McIntosh on May 4, 2012 at 2:15pm

What about renting? Did he rent from the ASU bookstore? What went wrong?

Comment by Cheryl on May 4, 2012 at 1:11pm

Used books just weren't available for his engineering classes. 

Comment by Eric & Shelley Pratt on May 4, 2012 at 1:01pm

Cheryl, my daughter will be in biomedical engineering this fall. Can you elaborate on the issues your son had with used books in engineering?

Comment by Cheryl on May 4, 2012 at 12:54pm

My son got as many used books as possible but that didn't work out for most of his engineering classes.  He tried renting a book too but that was a bad experience and he won't be renting any more. 

Comment by Jacqueline Todd on May 3, 2012 at 5:55pm

I do check this site often to see if you all have housing questions, but I also want you to know you can get up to date information from our twitter feed. You can follow us @ASUHousing. 

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