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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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[–] SimonJ57 ago 

You could try /r/opendirectories ?

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[–] flimflamedthezimzam ago 

Millions of people want to watch Paul Blart 2 but only a few hundred want to read Advanced Thermodynamics, Professor McDouche, 39th Edition (USA version).

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[–] RR5td5 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

because more people are interested in shitty movies than books.
did someone say this before? I'm too drunk/high to read comments

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[–] Vinegar 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago 

Several reasons:

  • Once a movie is released it doesn't have a new edition come out every couple years.
  • A DVD/Bluray costs ~$25 and Joe blow can load that into their computer and use VLC to rip a .mp4 Textbooks cost very easily $150+ and are difficult to scan decently without special equiptment or destroying the book.
  • eBooks are only available for some books.
  • eBooks come riddled with DRM which is pretty hit or miss when it comes to breaking. Most of the older forms of DRM are a piece of cake to crack now, but newer formats like .azw4 are difficult / currently impossible.
  • The alternative to breaking eBook DRM is circumventing it eg. writing a script to screenshot every page, cropping and verifying quality, exporting to PDF. This sucks (I should know, I just finished uploading the darn thing to Library Genesis!)

If you're opposed to getting shafted by the texbook industry might I suggest:

If you have to buy the book yourself please help your neighbor and do everything you can to upload to any or all of these resources.

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[–] Pawn ago  (edited ago)

you can break amazon encryption but if you do only do it for books you bought please.

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[–] 1993997? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

For most people, the only time they care about textbooks is for four to eight years of their lives. They then stop caring about education, and their piracy interests recenter on consumer media. The piracy market and leaching/seeding habits have adjusted to serve these needs.

If you want to talk about things that are hard to find, go one step beyond textbooks and try finding pirated scholarly articles. I'd rather the Internet had scientific journals for free and you had to pay to watch the latest Avengers film. Can you imagine the citations and quality on something like Wikipedia if everyone had access to peer reviewed information?

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

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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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