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This hits closer to home than I thought it would. Let's leave aside the fact library.nu was illegal under current laws, but for many books it was the only reas
by sireat 15y ago
This hits closer to home than I thought it would.
Let's leave aside the fact library.nu was illegal under current laws, but for many books it was the only reasonable option to obtain it.
library.nu offered extreme convenience for those outside of US especially in the education sector.
When I lived in US, it was quite inexpensive to order physical books. I used to order older editions of university books for a few bucks each and shipping was very inexpensive (think Amazon Prime now).
Now in Europe it is quite hard to bargain shop for books. Perhaps anyone have any tips?
Shopping on Amazon is physically painful, when you see how much you end up paying for extra costs.
Then there is the matter of buying experience for e-books.
Buying e-books on O'Reilly feels the best out of all current e-book sellers, you actually feel like an owner of the e-book(even though of course you really are not).
Still the ideal would be that e-books would be inexpensive to purchase and that buying a physical book would qualify one for e-book version.
- cturner 15y ago> Shopping on Amazon is physically painful, when you > see how much you end up paying for extra costs. That's not my experience. I recently bought a stack of ancient machine code and assembly books and paid 2p for some, with two pounds of shipping on top of that. The books are practically free to me. > Buying e-books on O'Reilly feels the best out of all > current e-book sellers Nostarch are pretty good. You can go in and download your books when you like from them. If a book you already own subsequently gets a new electronic format release, they open up access to that to you automatically.