The Best Gifts for College Students?
Textbooks!

How can you give a $25 gift to the college student in your life that could save them hundreds? Well, I'll tell you...

Textbook rental is one new thing in college textbooks. Buying or renting textbooks online is another.

By giving your college student a $25 (or more) gift certificate to Chegg.com - #1 in textbook rentals - you'll not only be saving them a few bucks on one book, but you might be turning them on to a whole new way of getting textbooks and saving money.

We're talking big savings over the University Bookstore.

(Does your student like to keep his/her textbooks? That's okay too. Chegg offers online used textbooks for sale as well.)

Compared with new books, cash-strapped college students can save well over 50% with your gift. Chegg guarantees:

• the quality of textbooks
• the delivery date
• the right to return any text for a full refund within 30 days

In addition, Chegg makes returning textbooks easy. Your student simply prints up a shipping label from Chegg's site and Chegg picks up the expenses.

With skyrocketing tuition and expenses, college kids are struggling. When you give a gift certificate from Chegg - instead of a sweater - you're showing that you understand what's important!

The 2008 Student Watch Report on Student Attitudes & Buying Habits estimated that the average student spent $702.00 on course materials.

And the U.S. Government Accountability Office reported in April, 2009, that textbook prices have been increasing at twice the inflation rate for the last 20 years. That makes helping out with textbooks the best college gift you can give.

Chegg textbook gift certificates and gift cards are the best gifts for college students.

You just provide your student's name, email address, choose a gift amount and write a note. The one downside: hard copy certificates are not available. Your gift will be emailed to your student, along with your note.

Note to generous parents: If you're giving the gift of college, you're entitled to save a few bucks yourself, don't you think?

You might want to take it upon yourself to make sure a Chegg account gets opened.

Now, if the lack of a non-virtual gift is a deal breaker for you and you have to have something you can stick in an envelope, there may be an alternative. I recommend doing the following search...

Copy the text into the search box below, substituting in the name of your student's school inside the quotes. If the college bookstore offers gift cards, chances are the relevant webpage will show up in the results.

I can think of a lot of gifts for college students. But I can't think of a better one.

Chegg college gift certificates.

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