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Cheap Batteries. Think of all the wireless gadgets in your home and then count all the batteries...

Updates: Textbook Websites and Rolling Backpacks Recommendations

With school bells about to ring throughout the land, we've updated our back-to-school buying guides and recommendations for cheap college textbooks websites and cheap rolling backpacks.

Budget Dorm Room Furnishing & Other Back to School Tips

The start of the semester is coming up quickly and college students and their parents are surely cringing at the prospective costs. Squandering college savings by dressing a dorm room to the nines and...

When to Haggle, How to Extend Food's Lifespan, Why Being Old Has Its Benefits

When to haggle and 245 money tips from Time should keep you busy this week. If you're a senior, if you have spendthrift friends, if you're paying too much to your Internet service provider, and... Read more on Time »

Barnes & Noble Groupon $10 for $20

Get $20 worth of Barnes & Nobles goods for only $10: Read more on Groupon »

Book Helps You Pick Frugal Wines

A cheap wines book can be an indispensable aid for anyone who enjoys one of the pleasures of life but can only do so on a limited budget. California Farmer provides a short review of a new book... Read more on California Farmer »

Frugal Guide to Purchasing Books

If you long for the days when you could get paperbacks for a dime, check out these cheap book buying tips on Richmond.com. Of course, a dime isn't quite a dime any longer either, but cheap reads... Read more on Richmond.com »

Black Friday: How the new frugality affects what we buy

On the off chance that you need to understand your new spending habits (oh, were you affected by the recession?), check out this article from Wallet Pop. It discusses a new book that explores the... Read more on Wallet Pop »

Borders Kobo: A Wi-Fi only e-reader, at a bargain-basement price

Border's is now right up there with the big guns in the cheap e-reader market. The Christian Science Monitor reports on the new Kobo, set for a holiday-season launch, that will match the standard-setting... Read more on The Christian Science Monitor »

Cheap eBook Readers Recommendations

Our research found a few quality cheap ebook readers costing less than $150. When shopping for an eReader, examining the battery life is as important as reviewing the feature set. It’s also essential... Read more on Cheapism »

Digital textbooks finally a viable, cheap textbook solution

You know all those textbooks piled high on your desk? Well, they're soon to be yet another relic of the past. WalletPop has a report on a new iPad app for digital textbooks. It's not perfect -- Read more on Wallet Pop »

Amazon unveils new Kindle, starting at $139

If you're an e-book reader hold-out, now might be the time to reconsider. MSNBC reports on a third-generation Kindle, priced at a cheap $139, that's got built-in Wi-Fi and other nifty features that... Read more on MSNBC »

Barnes & Noble Announces Nook Study Site with Cheap Textbooks

Some handy little digital helpers are hitting the market just as the back-to-college shopping season is about to start. Technewsdaily has the news on an expanded array of services and products for... Read more on Technewsdaily »

Review: The New Frugality

Here's a book to add to your list of summer reading: The New Frugality. According to The Simple Dollar, delivers on its promise by explaining the concept of frugality, what it means in today's... Read more on The Simple Dollar »

Borders to Cut Price on Libre Pro, Making it the Cheapest E-Reader

Good things come to those who wait. In this case, it's a cheap e-reader. With competition heating up in the e-reader market, Dailyfinance.com reports that Borders will soon start selling its version... Read more on Dailyfinance.com »

Borders Launches Cheap, Simple E-Reader

The e-reader war has reached a new stage -- and consumers should cheer. GadgetCrave reports that Borders has just released its version of the electronic book platform at a price that sharply undercuts... Read more on Gadget Crave »

Digital textbooks to account for 1 in 5 textbook sales in 2014

As every college student knows, textbooks cost a fortune. There are websites that charge less, of course, but even that model is becoming old school. Wallet Pop writes about the digital textbook... Read more on Wallet Pop »

Savings experiment: Does the Kindle beat buying books

Tired of trekking to the library? Are your bookshelves overflowing? Electronic readers are all the rage right now so Wallet Pop explores whether these new devices are frugal-friendly. Read more on Wallet Pop »

Move Over Kindle: Sony Launching Cheap New eBook Readers

Prices are falling all over. Now it's Sony's turn with two new, low-priced eBook readers meant to rival the Kindle. GearLog.com has the full story. "Sony is hitting back against... Read more on GearLog.com »