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• nitroemdash@lemmy.wtf ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My country has relaxed laws on piracy, so we had almost no books in our university, teachers just sent up pirated PDFs in a group chat

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  • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Unfortunately a lot of the fucking publishers are getting aware of this fact and they’re doing one-time codes now

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  • UndercoverNormie@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I didn’t buy a single book in community college. Thank you private torrent sites!

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      i stopped after the time when amazon came around, with books only and through google search i was able to get one book off. that was a little year before transfered toa 4 year, then i really was on the hunt at the time for torrented/free book downloads. yea those online access and professor exclusive books were annoying.

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• bridgeburner@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is this a US thing where curriculums are based on basically one book? Here in germany, often professors just put together their own presentation slides and make them available for the students. The material in the slides of course is based losely on one or more books, but u don’t really need to read or let alone purchase those books. Also, aren’t university libraries a thing in the US? We can get a lot of digital copies of books legitimately for free.

  And what majors require u to even read specific books? I did my major in electrical engineering, and there are so many books and even YouTube videos explaining a lot of stuff for free. I mean the mathematics and the physical laws are always the same, so it’s not like they change from book to book.

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  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m a lecturer for a University where all courses are required to have a mandatory textbook that is sold at the University book store.

    The thing is, most of the time the book isn’t actually necessary - we just have to tell the students in code. When I tell students that a textbook is mandatory as a required supplement to the materials that will be provided in lecture and online, it’s code for “Don’t buy that shit - they’re making me say it’s mandatory.”

    When I was in school, I also had a professor who had written a mandatory textbook, but it was printed on the cheap, spiral-bound, and he didn’t take a commission on its sale, so it was like $12.

    But there are also evil professors. I had a professor of American History in college who had a “mandatory” textbook he had written and said would be included in all the exams and that he would not cover it in lectures. The book turned out to be about an art movement in 1920s Mexico (his doctorate was in Mexican history), and not a page of it was actually relevant to the course or included in the exams. He just wanted to make extra money off the students.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    in k-12, its usually based one book, that almost never changes edition, or very little.

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• Arachnidbrilliant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I lived off of Plasma money for eight years in my 20s. Donated twice a week every week for eight years and paid my rent.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  downloads textbook

  “HOLD IT RIGHT THERE, CRIMINAL SCUM!”

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  • Mr_Fish@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    STOP!

    YOU VIOLATED THE LAW

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    • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      By the gods, there’s a psychopath on the loose!

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• stankmut@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  $250 from 5 donations? Textbooks must’ve gotten a lot cheaper since I went to college if you can get them with that kind of money.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    they will suck you dry before giving you money.

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    • UndercoverNormie@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Count me in, baby!

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  • Edge004@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They’re just as expensive still, plus depending on your college, you may have to pay for online access codes for your homework on top of textbooks

    Fortunately, pdfs of textbooks are usually pretty easy to find

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      usually its the required access that cant be pirated. beats buying the book. thats what i did.

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    • Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Wait what? Don’t book usually come in a physical copy that has (usually on the back) a code for the digital one? It’s different in the USA? That’s bullshit

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  • Skylordd78@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A place near me is doing $800 for 8 donations

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• Malyca@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No, not the one from last year. This year’s. Written by the professor, who will demand proof you bought his damn book before he’ll teach you.

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  • UndercoverNormie@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You are required to buy my book for the low, low price of 339.79. Twice. Hell, let’s make it three times.

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• hubobes@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s why back home we can not legally be compensated for donating blood or plasma. But you usually get some Sandwich and Coffee or something else to drink afterwards, which is nice.

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• auzy1@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah. Here in Australia they don’t pay us

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• krisevol@lemmus.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You can always let students have more access to student loans so they could be in debt for 40 years instead of 30 years. Have you thought about that?

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• gray@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If Oblivion has a million fans, then I am one of them. If Oblivion has ten fans, then I am one of them. If Oblivion has only one fan then that is me. If Oblivion has no fans, then that means I am no longer on earth. If the world is against Oblivion, then I am against the world.

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• daggermoon@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s why I’ve given up.

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