During the last weeks I am attending many initiatives that can help to overcome the expense in the purchase of books that have been presented to us this September to parents.
For this course, many of the public aids have disappeared, and in many cases the price of books is abusive. So parents who cannot access textbooks for their children (who are not few) have turned to to the loan between friends and private solidarity.
To many of us who can still pay for books, it doesn't seem fair to us what is happening and we support the exchange markets, while we try to implement reuse systems in schools. That is why I bring you an initiative that I found in Daily Savings: it is a Book Bag, and it is a site for the search, exchange and sale of used school textbooks.
Book Bag allows contact between offers and demands for free, and without intermediaries
This is provided to parents and students a platform for exchanging textbooks in an 'interactive, visual and practical' way. As an added value, it gives us the opportunity to sell or give away used books: we help other people find books at a lower cost, and we recover a small part of the investment we made in their day.
If we are looking for a book in the Book Bag, nothing is easier than doing it through the identification by ISBN (verifying the technical data sheet of the book), or through the specific filter (applying curricular search criteria as educational level or subject).
Exchanges are made privately and if we are interested in donating or selling, they will only ask us that the material is in good use.
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