October will be the last month this semester students will have the opportunity to purchase their rented textbooks from Textbook Rental Service.

“We usually have the textbook sale periods during October for fall semester, and March for the spring semester,” Carol Miller, assistant director of Textbook Rental Services, said.

The deadline is necessary so that the Textbook Rental Service will have a count of how many books will be brought back, and the amount of books needed to be bought for the following semester, Dan Klingenberg, director of Textbook Rental Service, said.

The prices of the books are reduced 10 percent for each semester of use, and the maximum discount is 50 percent, Miller said.

“Students might want to buy books so that they can write, highlight, and underline the text. Also, if they lose the book, they have to buy the book,” Klingenberg said.

“Not a lot of students take advantage of the sale; about 8 percent of the books that are out are bought,” Klingenberg said. “Students can buy books when the sale is over, but we have to order them.”

He added that buying one or two books at a time is more expensive for Textbook Rental then buying them in bulk, because talking to the distributor and paying for shipping and handling is necessary.

“In order to buy a book, bring the book into the Textbook Rental Office and the clerk will determine the price for you,” Miller said.

Only checks and cash are accepted, and a student ID is not necessary, Miller said.

“We encourage students to buy textbooks in their field of study, to build their own personal library,” Miller said.