KAY ELLEN | DESIGN: Books

Back to school time has arrived at my house. The pile of inspirational vintage books shown above are from my collection ~~~ not text books:)

My son rents books for his college courses. Thankful for that....The campus library has books available for students to rent if you are first inline to grab one off the shelf. The renting does curve the price downward but still very pricey! The books not including the cost of each course seem to range from 95.00 up to 225.00 per class. Talking to other parents with students in college agree that this is an average price of some books... University Campus average 300.00 or more per book...I seem to freak out a little each time a new semester comes around....my son will blurt out {I need some extra money for books...}What? How much?

I would love to see a universal book system for students enrolled to be able to download any book at a lower cost online? Maybe some colleges are practicing this concept I sure hope so!!! So far we have only been able to download one class book...hope this becomes a common pratice when my daughter starts college in a couple years... I do have to add we did find a few good deals on Amazon.com to buy the books, but it just depends on the course subject.

Any new parents out in blogland sending your kids to college make sure and budget for books because a full time student will spend an average of 500.00 or more for one semester. Yikes!

I was remembering how I use to complain about all the extra workbooks my kids would need in Junior High and High School~~~ well that was a drop in the bucket! haha

This photo above is from Pinterest I pinned it on my board called BOOKS...I love the inspiring images I have found and pinned.... Stop by and check out my inspirational boards anytime!!