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my friend in college bought texts books before the first semester when their parents took them to the book store. then a classmate showed them libgen and didn't
by LesZedCB 3y ago
my friend in college bought texts books before the first semester when their parents took them to the book store. then a classmate showed them libgen and didn't buy any more text books except the one weird custom textbook by some professor.
i guess they buy all their books now that they have a job, but also with generous use of used book stores and physical libraries.
oh and dont buy though amazon, especially kindle.
- aegypti 3y agoThis pretty much mirrors my experience exactly, but these days I lean a lot more heavily on the Libby app for borrowing from my library which is amazing. What’s the issue with Amazon/Kindle though, the fakes?
- LesZedCB 3y agotheir de-facto monopoly status on basically all things books and increasingly on publishing, and of course their absolutely inane DRM. libby is amazing, people are completely sleeping on it if you're not using it. free e-books!
- wolverine876 3y agoTalking to some students, I'm told that people often freely pass a book on to the next semester's students.