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

Most classes books are highly unnecessary...

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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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[–] 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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[–] pilas2000 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

You can easily download crappy books too!

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

It's hard to find good pirate ebooks

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[–] CanIHazPhD ago 

I had this same feeling, but encompassing textbooks, technical books and papers.

I actually started planning to program a torrent-like client for distribution of such files, but couldn't actually do it and eventually I gave up :(

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[–] Pawn ago 

what a fucking quitter. There I said it. Does it make you mad? User that anger to do your project you lazy bum.

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[–] CanIHazPhD ago 

Sadly I realized the project was beyond my ability, I'm not a programmer, it's just a hobby. But I'm thinking about recruiting a friend or strangers from the internet, I'm just postponing it to a time I'm not swamped in other work.

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