The Inside Scoop on iFlipd: Your New Money-Saving Textbook Renter

By Francine Fluetsch on September 21, 2016

Extra, extra, read all about it! Textbooks just got a whole lot easier and cheaper with this new textbook renter called iFlipd, as brought to you by this hot-off-the-press press release.

Okay, real talk. Have you ever been in a class where the textbook and/or books are all listed on the syllabus, the teacher tells you how important they are going to be, you buy the darn things and lug them to class every day, and then only end up using said books for like one assignment or only to look at a passage or two?

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We’ve all been there, and it’s really frustrating, especially when we used money that we could have put towards rent or food on the textbook that will now collect dust on our bookshelves since we won’t even be able to get a forth of our money back if we attempt to sell it.

With iFlipd, you get to avoid this situation and never have to feel like you wasted your money on a textbook ever again! So what is iFlipd exactly? Well, iFlipd is a weekly textbook rental service, where you can rent the book in digital or hard copy for the weeks that you are going to use it. That means, you can rent it for the beginning of class when you aren’t sure if you’ll need it, can return it, and then can rent it again if you do need it for the midterm or final and so on.

This way, you are only actually paying for the textbook while you are using it, so you know that it’s worth the buy. This is especially great to take advantage of if your professor assigns like 10 books to read over the course, since you can rent them as you go rather than paying full price for all the books that you know you aren’t going to finish reading anyway.

“Students should have more affordable choices when it comes to textbooks, and iFlipd fills that void by letting them decide when to pay and for how long,” said Kati Radziwon, iFlipd CEO and founder.

This is really great since we can’t just tell the professor, “sorry I can’t get your textbook because I don’t want to spend the money on it.”

Having options on how we get our books and how much we are going to spend on them gives us students more freedom and flexibility, and will help us resent those professors a little less that force us to get books that we find out aren’t even really all that important to the class.

Granted, there are some classes where you will need the book the whole time and it is beneficial to buy it, but you can still use iFlipd for your other classes to be strategic with your spending.

iFlipd shows their dedication to helping students afford textbooks by making accounts free to sign up for and giving students plenty of opportunities for free stuff using a point system. Upon making an account, you will receive a free weekly rental, and of course you will be rewarded for inviting your friends to join in on the savings. Some rentals start as low as $2 a week, so this is definitely worth looking into! If you sign up today, you can get $60 off.

It’s nice to see that there are still some kind souls out there in this money hungry world, so check it out and start saving today.

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