{"id":1665,"date":"2020-07-29T14:28:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T18:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog2.textbookrush.com\/?p=1665"},"modified":"2020-08-13T10:41:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T14:41:53","slug":"the-cheap-book-search-what-are-hurt-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.textbookrush.com\/blog\/post\/the-cheap-book-search-what-are-hurt-books\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cheap Book Search \u2013 What Are Hurt Books?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Thanks to the internet and websites like TextbookRush.com<\/a>, finding cheap books or discounted textbooks can be pretty easy these days. One simple title or ISBN search could find you in a sea of low-priced copies of any book you\u2019re looking for. Unfortunately, it\u2019s not the price, but the description that sometimes stops us from throwing the book in our cart, checking out and strutting our cheap textbook strut straight out of the room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just when you\u2019re about to add that wonderful twenty-five-dollar textbook or a really important five-dollar copy of \u201cThank You and You\u2019re Welcome\u201d (Kanye West\u2019s book of \u201cKanye-isms\u201d and philosophies) you see it. Ugh. There they are. Glaring back at you in their basic little Times New Roman font. The words \u201churt book\u201d. So wait, what does that mean? Is your book going to be okay? How hurt is it?? Like seriously injured and missing some of its parts kind of hurt?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fear not frugal shopper. Your book is going to be okay. A \u201churt\u201d book is used to describe books that have been damaged in shipping during their transportation to customers or book sale websites – whose injuries typically consist of scratches, dings, corner dents and fading. With minor bruising like this, one simply does not toss a hurt book into the garbage. When customers return these damaged goods or when the online bookstore receives a batch of hurt books from a distributer, they will likely resell the book at a discounted price. One person\u2019s trash is another person\u2019s heavily discounted treasure, after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So should you purchase a hurt book? Go for it. You\u2019ll find tons of cheap textbooks and cheap books described in this condition and if you can get past some small imperfections, you could end up paying less than half the original cover price for these books. A hurt book isn\u2019t going to show up at your door with its font printed on backwards, it doesn\u2019t mean that a block of chapters has been removed or the entire last page was crossed out with a black sharpie (lol). To describe a book as \u201churt\u201d the cosmetic damage should only be minor and in many cases they are in near excellent condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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