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bookszlibb74ugqojhzhg2a63w5i2atv5bqarulgczawnbmsb6s6qead.onion still up on TOR. fuck them i aint paying for my textbooks. never had a book bill higher than $50

bookszlibb74ugqojhzhg2a63w5i2atv5bqarulgczawnbmsb6s6qead.onion still up on TOR. fuck them i aint paying for my textbooks. never had a book bill higher than $50 and not about to start now.

midislack 4y ago
Bump this. EDIT - don't bump this. Why would you need an account to download pirated shit? LOL absolutely pathetic.
_fvh3 4y ago
Textbook prices are outrageous, I am not paying for a £60 textbook that I will only use for the question banks
- frickinLasers 4y ago
  > £60 Boy, wouldn't that be nice. A standard calculus book costs $200 in America. Or, £178 (RIP pounds)
  - Ruthalas 4y ago
    A chemistry textbook of mine was 600 USD- brand new because the version published that year was required. That really stung.
    - freefaler 4y ago
      Why doesn't students pull their funds for 1 book and then scan it and use that electronic copy? (and may be return/resell the physical book)?
      - Ruthalas 4y ago
        That's not a bad plan from a cost perspective, though scanning a 200+ page textbook is reasonably complex, and very time consuming.
        collegeburner 4y ago
        it's doable cuz most unis have nice scanning equipment u can use for free in the library. i have literally made over $1000 in a semester scanning a textbook nobody had PDFed and reselling it electronically. it wasn't even offered in digital format by the publisher.
  - _fvh3 4y ago
    I am in the stage below higher education (equivalent to SAT's), meaning most pupils don't have jobs or have only been in work for a few months (A National insurance number is given at 16 and is needed to enter work), we have 3 / 4 subjects on average and 2 books per subject which is about £420 in total, however the UK is pretty facilitating to low income households and provides them with grants to afford the costs, we do have a school library meaning we can take out books, but we have to return them within a short window of time and we cannot write on them which makes them redundant for some subjects. Am a pretentious whiner?, Yes. Will I keep on pirating textbooks? Yes
  - _fvh3 4y ago
    RIP Liz Truss & the £
friendlypeg 4y ago
Am I the only one who believes the high textbook pricing are reasonable given the small consumer base?
- Finnucane 4y ago
  'textbook' covers a lot of ground--it could mean something widely used in a lot of schools, or something hyper-specialized. It could be a book that needed a lot of editorial and production work, or none at all.
- braingenious 4y ago
  Yes.
- tireonfire 4y ago
  How much does it cost to make a textbook and have a few editors? There are on average about 20 million college students in the US and for core books and common fields there are tens or hundreds of thousands of students taking those courses every semester. 50,000 students can easily cover the authoring and editing of a textbook and still reap a massive profit with a small fee of $20 per book.
- netr0ute 4y ago
  I don't know, because Openstax charges $0 for an arguably smaller audience than that of higher priced options, so you can't get much lower than that.
- wernercd 4y ago
  reasonable ends when books that don't need to change have yearly editions... IE: math books. Math hasn't changed in centuries - core pieces of it. Yet, for some reason, you need 2022 Math Unchained with an Access Code to attend a class and the only changes are... perfunctory changes to the 2022 version? Good thing the costs are attached to your tuition so no only do you pay hundreds for the materials but you get to pay interest on the college loans for decades to come! No thanks. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/battle-over-college-course-material-is-a-textbook-example-of-technological-change/2018/04/14/fb3d0394-0db5-11e8-95a5-c396801049ef_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/battle-over-c...
nsn90 4y ago
^ this is not the correct link zlibrary24tuxziyiyfr7zd46ytefdqbqd2axkmxm4o5374ptpc52fad.onion

bookszlibb74ugqojhzhg2a63w5i2atv5bqarulgczawnbmsb6s6qead.onion still up on TOR. fuck them i aint paying for my textbooks. never had a book bill higher than $50 and not about to start now.

midislack 4y ago

Bump this. EDIT - don't bump this. Why would you need an account to download pirated shit? LOL absolutely pathetic.

_fvh3 4y ago

Textbook prices are outrageous, I am not paying for a £60 textbook that I will only use for the question banks

frickinLasers 4y ago
> £60 Boy, wouldn't that be nice. A standard calculus book costs $200 in America. Or, £178 (RIP pounds)
- Ruthalas 4y ago
  A chemistry textbook of mine was 600 USD- brand new because the version published that year was required. That really stung.
  - freefaler 4y ago
    Why doesn't students pull their funds for 1 book and then scan it and use that electronic copy? (and may be return/resell the physical book)?
    - Ruthalas 4y ago
      That's not a bad plan from a cost perspective, though scanning a 200+ page textbook is reasonably complex, and very time consuming.
      - collegeburner 4y ago
        it's doable cuz most unis have nice scanning equipment u can use for free in the library. i have literally made over $1000 in a semester scanning a textbook nobody had PDFed and reselling it electronically. it wasn't even offered in digital format by the publisher.
- _fvh3 4y ago
  I am in the stage below higher education (equivalent to SAT's), meaning most pupils don't have jobs or have only been in work for a few months (A National insurance number is given at 16 and is needed to enter work), we have 3 / 4 subjects on average and 2 books per subject which is about £420 in total, however the UK is pretty facilitating to low income households and provides them with grants to afford the costs, we do have a school library meaning we can take out books, but we have to return them within a short window of time and we cannot write on them which makes them redundant for some subjects. Am a pretentious whiner?, Yes. Will I keep on pirating textbooks? Yes
- _fvh3 4y ago
  RIP Liz Truss & the £

friendlypeg 4y ago

Am I the only one who believes the high textbook pricing are reasonable given the small consumer base?

Finnucane 4y ago
'textbook' covers a lot of ground--it could mean something widely used in a lot of schools, or something hyper-specialized. It could be a book that needed a lot of editorial and production work, or none at all.
braingenious 4y ago
Yes.
tireonfire 4y ago
How much does it cost to make a textbook and have a few editors? There are on average about 20 million college students in the US and for core books and common fields there are tens or hundreds of thousands of students taking those courses every semester. 50,000 students can easily cover the authoring and editing of a textbook and still reap a massive profit with a small fee of $20 per book.
netr0ute 4y ago
I don't know, because Openstax charges $0 for an arguably smaller audience than that of higher priced options, so you can't get much lower than that.
wernercd 4y ago
reasonable ends when books that don't need to change have yearly editions... IE: math books. Math hasn't changed in centuries - core pieces of it. Yet, for some reason, you need 2022 Math Unchained with an Access Code to attend a class and the only changes are... perfunctory changes to the 2022 version? Good thing the costs are attached to your tuition so no only do you pay hundreds for the materials but you get to pay interest on the college loans for decades to come! No thanks. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/battle-over-college-course-material-is-a-textbook-example-of-technological-change/2018/04/14/fb3d0394-0db5-11e8-95a5-c396801049ef_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/battle-over-c...

nsn90 4y ago

^ this is not the correct link zlibrary24tuxziyiyfr7zd46ytefdqbqd2axkmxm4o5374ptpc52fad.onion