With the first day of classes comes a chorus of reluctant groans as collegiettes everywhere discover just how much our professors expect us to spend on books this semester. You can check out the prices on Amazon, you can even try to cut costs by renting instead of buying, but matter how you slice it, you’re about to drop a few hundred bucks on “required reading material.”Â
Whether you freak your parents out with that ungodly final total or you weep internally as you hand the bookstore clerk your own credit card, either way the message is clear: there is no reason that textbooks should cost this much.
Thankfully, there’s a solution to this expensive issue: Boundless.
Boundless is used by students at over 2,000 schools (over half of the colleges in the country!) and is the only free alternative to paying an arm and a leg for textbooks each semester.
The “textbooks” at Boundless aren’t physical textbooks at all, but they aren’t your traditional “e-Books” either. While not an exact replica of the book that your professor will assign you, Boundless offers a free alternative to that book that covers the same key concepts more efficiently.
And don’t worry if your professor assigns you specific pages from the required textbook—you can search through your Boundless book for the page number, topic, section, or chapter that you need to study quickly and easily.
In addition to offering you all of the information that you’d need out of a textbook, you’re able to highlight or take notes wherever you want within your Boundless book, and they provide you with SmartNotes for your course, which condense longer text into key points and terms you might need to study effectively.
Even cooler, they have pre-made flashcards and quizzes to help you test yourself on the material your professor covers in class, so that you can prepare for tests more easily! Â
You can use Boundless on any device (laptop, tablet, cell phone), anytime, anywhere. They have free textbook alternatives for nearly every subject, including psychology, communications, biology, writing, political science, and more. Search for your books here. Â Â
Of the students who used Boundless textbooks last semester, 95% achieved the grade that they wanted (or did better)! Instead of lugging around heavy, costly, old-fashioned textbooks, give Boundless a shot this semester—your back, your bank account, and your GPA will thank you!