Boundless books

College Life
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<p>Hi everyone. Most recently I have been really fed up with the price of textbooks. Even when I rent from chegg or buy used from sites from half.ebay.com, some books are not significantly cheaper than the books found in my campus bookstore and often times when I buy used textbooks, the books are in horrible condition and are dirty. However, I happened to find this startup company based in Boston that takes a big selection of college texts and creates an e-book alternative. All the chapters from the original text are matched to information found from free sources (According to their PR and website advertisements). Have any of you used Boundless? It is only 20$/book, but I don’t want to waste my money on a book that is missing significant information. Please tell me your experience with them. I’m not impressed so far because they still haven’t replied to my email for customer support. But I haven’t actually bought a product from them. </p>

<p>By the way, I have no problem with e-books. I love my iPad and read all the time on it. </p>

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<p>Honestly I have NO CLUE if this is a real post or a spam post…I’ve never heard of them. I wouldn’t trust anything that just gives a flat rate for all books. </p>

<p>However, after I just did a quick google search they seem legit. They seem to have a lot of bugs in their system and like you said their support is non excistant. I wouldn’t if I were you. </p>

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<p>It is not spam. That’s my experience. Startup companies often have bugs so you never know. It could be risky. They appear to be a very good company with good intentions. Their CEO was giving a TED talk the other day. Ariel Diaz. I personally am fine with physical textbooks, but they cost so much.</p>

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<p>The best place to rent books is Amazon, at least in my experience. I’ve gotten $200 books for $20-30 per semester. Look there.</p>

<p>A lot of books are on the internet. Some are rough scans, some are professional PDFs or ebooks made by the company. Of course, that’s illegal, but it’s up to you.</p>