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[–] Secus 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

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[–] abattoir 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

also it's harder to scan an entire textbook so there are fewer people willing to leak them

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[–] Sciencegirl 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Maybe it's because those who do pay don't want to share with anyone else because they had to pay....that being said I just graduated and refused to purchase textbooks, they are insanely priced and new editions are the same thing with the chapters rearranged and questions altered slightly. It's stupid.

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[–] Pattoe 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

It's hard to find good pirate ebooks

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[–] SimonJ57 ago 

You could try /r/opendirectories ?

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[–] Subtenko ago 

Look, if people want this to happen then:

  1. Find smart people to write software so anyone just has to enter a couple lines of text when
  2. people sign up to contribute in a $300 donation to scan 1 page. they enter info in software. software compiles the pdf book.
  3. Profit.

theres a crapton of books tho. 50 books = 15000 people scan 1 page for 300 paged books (less than a city population) x 50 states = 2500 books covered in less than 1 hour.

Seems like its plausible if you had enough people on a schedule....and the donations for a copy of the books...is there anything like this out there now,LOL?

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[–] slyscafe ago 

The amount of time it takes to copy a text book, page for page, to a .pdf from hard copy to digital takes WAY more time than it does to rip video files off a DVD or whatever.

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[–] gbj1301 ago 

A cursory startpage search gave me Ebook Bay and this article on free ebooks. Are you lokking for niche books @rhinoferson

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