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Edit: That being said, fuck 'em. I'm not paying $300+ for a damn book.
For real. Sorry authors and publishers, but if your book costs more than my class you can officially suck my dick. You wanna rip me off? I don't think so, I'll rip you off.
It's disturbing that your classes cost around $300....each of my classes cost around $1,200 a piece. And on that note, I've never purchased a textbook since my first semester as a freshman. Hell, my uni's library has all class textbooks on reserve so if I can't find the ebook, I'll just go to the library and scan the chapters and email myself the .pdf.
I live in Greece, fucking Greece, and the books are still provided to the students for free. And even if you lose the book, it usually costs around 30-50 euros.
yea the US is getting BUM fucked in textbooks. I look for used and international editions of the books in order to have the book. International editions are the same in lower quality paper and softcovers.
I've always thought is was because in order to upload a text book you'd have to scan each page. More effort than videotaping or ripping a movie. So there is less content.
unless there is a more efficient method, a group of people could donate, so each person gets a dollar for scanning a page, enter info in software, software compiles pdf. theres a ton of books but get a smart person to handle the software, it could work.
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:
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[–] Gerplunckamo 0 points 31 points 31 points (+31|-0) ago (edited ago)
Textbooks are way more expensive, the people that write them have a lot more to lose if people distribute them for free.
Edit: That being said, fuck 'em. I'm not paying $300+ for a damn book.
[–] Cid 0 points 25 points 25 points (+25|-0) ago
For real. Sorry authors and publishers, but if your book costs more than my class you can officially suck my dick. You wanna rip me off? I don't think so, I'll rip you off.
[–] Imperius 1 point 4 points 5 points (+5|-1) ago
It's disturbing that your classes cost around $300....each of my classes cost around $1,200 a piece. And on that note, I've never purchased a textbook since my first semester as a freshman. Hell, my uni's library has all class textbooks on reserve so if I can't find the ebook, I'll just go to the library and scan the chapters and email myself the .pdf.
[–] ITACHI 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago (edited ago)
appliedsciencefreelibraryguide dot org
[–] Bkow ago
My one class I'm taking costs $3300. My book bundle cost $225. What are you taking?
[–] Guerilla 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
I live in Greece, fucking Greece, and the books are still provided to the students for free. And even if you lose the book, it usually costs around 30-50 euros.
I think someone's getting ripped off.
[–] Gerplunckamo 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
You're not wrong.
[–] Pawn ago
yea the US is getting BUM fucked in textbooks. I look for used and international editions of the books in order to have the book. International editions are the same in lower quality paper and softcovers.
[–] el_llama 0 points 26 points 26 points (+26|-0) ago
have you tried http://gen.lib.rus.ec/
[–] iso1711 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Holy shit, that site is a goldmine! Thanks for sharing and have an upvoat =D
[–] kittenpoo 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Never heard of that before and I was a little thrown by the russian but I've already found some good stuff. Thanks for the share!
[–] Fernando_x 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
It would be good to see more movement at /v/Scholar, too
[–] Pinyaka ago
Library Genesis ftw!
[–] G4 0 points 12 points 12 points (+12|-0) ago
It's not really. I've found plenty of textbooks on TPB
[–] Reclaimer69 0 points 8 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago
I've always thought is was because in order to upload a text book you'd have to scan each page. More effort than videotaping or ripping a movie. So there is less content.
[–] Subtenko 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
unless there is a more efficient method, a group of people could donate, so each person gets a dollar for scanning a page, enter info in software, software compiles pdf. theres a ton of books but get a smart person to handle the software, it could work.
[–] Vinegar 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
Several reasons:
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.
[–] Pawn ago (edited ago)
you can break amazon encryption but if you do only do it for books you bought please.
[–] [deleted] 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
[–] HamsterSlayer 1 point 9 points 10 points (+10|-1) ago
Stop using google.
[–] abattoir 1 point 3 points 4 points (+4|-1) ago
use ddgo
[–] Zer0day 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
https://torrentz.eu/
[–] Secus 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/trackers/comments/hrgmv/tracker_with_pdfsebooks_of_college_textbooks/c1xrq44