Whether you’re traveling by plane, train, bus, car, or any other form of transportation, today’s traveler is bound to spend long stretches of time just sitting around. You’ll sit around in airports and train stations too. Do you really want to watch that inane in flight movie or read that magazine? Why not use your free time to learn new things by reading business textbooks, as well as other educational books?
Today’s textbooks are totally different from the old fashioned clunkers that you had in school, whether it’s high school, college, or graduate school. Not only can you rent them at a super low price, but you can also get them in convenient ebook form and as books on tape. If they’re not readily available as books on tape, you can get Google Voice to read ebooks to you by simply uploading them to Google Play. This is a perfect option for people who drive long distances.
You can also download movies from Youtube to watch while you’re in flight as well. Sites like Khan Academy offer business courses in video form to make it even easier for you to improve your skills at career boosting topics like business, economics, and accounting.
If you have too many textbooks left over from either your education or your kids’ education, you can sell them at Books Run and on other textbook sites to get money to buy even more textbooks, or to travel even more. Books Run pays great prices for these old clunkers because there’s always somebody out there, looking for textbooks that you don’t need anymore. One man’s trash can truly be another man’s treasure. Used textbooks are also good for the environment because it saves paper to not have to print new books.
Not only do sites like Books Run contain business books, but you can also find textbooks that enhance your travel experience. Are you going to a country that speaks a different language? Check out textbooks for basically every language. Read up on the history of your destination and learn about not only the business etiquette, but how people live.
The actual act of traveling might be tedious, but it still creates some downtime for the traveler. Whether you’re going by plane, by train, by car or by bus, why not spend the time productively instead of crushing candy? By checking out the options above, you can improve your career prospects while traveling for your career, or for fun, or for any other purpose at all. Now you can spend your spare time productively while improving your travel experience. So why not take the leap?