Introducing a New Way
to Find Textbooks on Campus.

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BookCycle is commited to making education more accesible to everyone.

We are a platform that allows George Washington students to exchange textbooks within the safety of their campus. Students can donate and swap textbooks on campus to reduce the number of financial insecurities in higher education and academia. BookCycle not only aims to reduce financial strain, but also reduce the environmental impact of purchasing new textbooks every semester.


Main Points

Save Money

Reduce Financial Strain.

Operate in a Trusted Zone

Only Open to GWU students.

Succeed Academically

Build a Community on Campus.

Promote Reuse

Recycle Textbooks.

View our Documentation

Writings, Presentations, Poster and More Deliverables.

Videos

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Technology

Technical Components.

About Us

Meet the team.

Building our Project


To build BookCycle, we made a number of choices for our UX/UI Design and Front-end to make it as user-friendly as possible. We used React which is the Front-end JavaScript framework. Axios which is a JavaScript library to make HTTP requests to the API and is used for the API requests to endpoints in the backend, and Material UI for user components.

For the Backend/API we used Node.js as the JavaScript runtime environment, Express as the framework to build REST API, PostgreSQL as the Relational Database, TypeORM to Connect Node and Postgre, BeautifulSoup to web scrape GW courses.


To read more about our Front-end, Backend, and other documentation go to our writings.

Matches

Sign in with your verified GW email and donate your old textbooks

Matches

Select your courses and get matched by our algorithm

My Exchanges

Exchange textbooks with other students and check on your status

Textbooks

Find more information, ratings, comments, and where to find them online for free or to purchase if they're not available to exchange


So what are you waiting for?

We know you are stressed with classes, finals, and those increasing textbook costs. Let us help you make your life easier and save you money. Everything you need is conveniently all in one place. We'll show you how to save, so you can get studying!

Sign up for BookCycle

Your wallet (and GPA) will thank you!