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In honor of my cakeday, my first Imgur favorite.
(Original Credit: by AlbanB May 27 2016)
https://imgur.com/account/favorites/GvFmo
Sites:
http://libgen.org/
http://www.textbooknova.com/
http://www.reddit.com/.../eebooks+mathbooks.../new/...
http://bookboon.com/en/textbooks-ebooks
http://textbookrevolution.org/index.php/Main_Page
http://people.math.gatech.edu/.../textbooks/onlinebooks.html
http://ebookee.org/ http://www.freebookspot.es/
http://www.free-ebooks.net/
http://www.getfreeebooks.com/
http://en.bookfi.org/
http://oerconsortium.org/discipline-specific/
http://www.gutenberg.org/
Beatmosphere
Because I cant masturbate to college textbooks.
dumbinsults
In reference to my physics book,
brusilov
WildCassandra12
The bio department at my college only gave out PDF textbooks because they felt bad about the $40 lab manual
Dorsk84
Where the fuck was this when I was in college? Oh yea ...that was 16 years ago.
Mindstate00
Missing the MIT open source site...can't remember name but it's amazing
woozle
Saintmagepk
jbryce1994
library.memoryoftheworld.org
PerminHerm
I think Aaron Swartz tried to do this, with the wealth of Western Knowledge since the Renaissance, and they basically killed him for it.
Superposition1
Theres a good documentary on yt about this
NotSureIfItWasAFart
Both
Huskyboiler
As if students read their textbooks
Rosey454
mike13815
Every class you take, check libgen. If the books on there, great. If you have to buy the book, scan it and upload for others.
UnkindledOne
LetThePurplePhoenixDie
My uni in Germany has contracts with most major medicine textbook publishers (journals as well) so you can access them freely
kuschelnom
Swiss here.. Never bought a uni book in my life. 1600 francs a year for uni taxes, that's it.
personalpackagehandling
a friend has saved me over $300 in two semesters by telling me about libgen. i tell everyone else about it too.
michaelfire
Hospital services and textbooks...tough times https://imgur.com/xK7q5W7
Subaruislife
Ebay, friends. $35 is better than $100 for obe textbook
stxtfr
Well for research g articles, use Telegram app. Message scihubot with the full DOI of the research article. PDF sent to you
Mufljojevic
Sci-hub
TheInternetShouldHaveAClosingTimeSoICouldSleep
Yes! https://sci-hub.tw/ but if you are a student I would check with your library because many provide access to a lot of journals
Kohjack
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RevArtillery
Cool but these days, the textbook comes with the online portal you need to do your homework.
Bobcats
Why not both !!!
larrythelobster626
Yeah but the class requires the 301st edition of the book not the 280th
Ilikerandomgifs
Or your teacher wrote the book and it's obscure af.
wazscience
Or, type in the name of your textbook in to google and put "pdf" at the end.... You're welcome
chromofoam
Does this usually work for the latest edition?
wazscience
Depends if someone posts the latest edition. From experience, 1 or 2 editions past shouldnt be too different from the latest edition.
chromofoam
Yeah usually not too bad although I recently bought a second hand book only one edition behind and it was missing huge chunks ?
wazscience
I guess you could get that section photocopied
chromofoam
Luckily my university provides the books for free on the virtual learning platform as it’s a distance degree but I prefer a hard copy
Unclescam
Don't some professors require you to actually show that you have the book? I'm guessing this happens often with the books the prof wrote.
Gababu
no but some books now have online h.w or some BS program you need a serial code to so you gotta pay up in some form or another anyways.
TheInternetShouldHaveAClosingTimeSoICouldSleep
Some require textbook codes that give access to online apps that are required for coursework
T0go
professors make like 10 cents a book, yet you always hear kids wondering about this
alwaysinvitebobross
They make quite a bit more than that. James Stewart wrote math texts, and he built a $24MM house with some of the proceeds. “Integral House”
DocAqua
Maybe in smaller classes, but in large classes in giant university lecture halls, it's simply logistically impractical for them to do that.
DocAqua
More likely it would be "you can complete assignments for this class using the online site included with the book", IMO.
TwoBadMiloshDead
While I was in college some professors just required that you bring the book to the normal exam. They would also sign it, to prevent...
TwoBadMiloshDead
... someone else bringing the same book.
TwoBadMiloshDead
*oral exam (autocorrect)
squirrelkng
I’m guessing you’ve never been to college
TwoBadMiloshDead
This happens. And I have been and finished college. Two of them.
squirrelkng
You’re not the person I commented on. My question was not directed at you, random internet stranger.
TwoBadMiloshDead
I did not see a question anywhere.
squirrelkng
Oh I forgot punctuation sorry you can extrapolate conclusions from incomplete data
laDisparitionDesHeures
I hope you'll b-ok.org.
Gavshu
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iamjasonkim012
GetSomeSleepYouDeserveIt
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trapaholicmixtape
Hats off
VaticRegok
https://i.imgur.com/Njhyvhp
buzzl1ght
Or libgen.is
thesauceisboss
I www.khanacademy.org you enough for your help.
MimikIceFire
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paduaitaly
porcuswinesandwich
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ibitmytongue
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MyNameIsPlural
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AnokaJoe
You're amazing, just saved $300
CaptianCripL
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SourceBroTrustMe
Why the fuck are sites like this (in English) blocked by the government in Italy?
Whimbeldor
Trying to keep the corona virus away
laDisparitionDesHeures
Tor. 2bu5puxp6afwjgql.onion
SourceBroTrustMe
thesauceisboss
I don’t know but I’d bet you don’t want to click on agcom.it to find out.
Sugarblade
Instead, we should make an open source textbook for stem classes that doesn't suck. I'm tired of paying $300 for a book that is half assed.
ferafish
I was so happy when my instrumentation teacher used an open source book. She was my fave
wolf387465
https://openstax.org/subjects
TacTheScribbler
This. Instead, I have to buy online courses with hours of videos containing info I could probably just read online.
DocAqua
My fav undergrad Prof did exactly that with his wife (both biochemists): https://biochem.oregonstate.edu/content/biochemistry-free-and-easy
SharkDoctor
I had sex with my professor. Free textbooks. Problem solved.
LitchLitch
The problem with that is too many profs depend on text book sales. We need to get rid of all the admins (assistant deans, vice provosts, et
MementoMoriMotherFucker
I actually had a good percentage of teachers who had either written the text or whose close friend wrote the text book
PaintedSlate
Admin is another issue, but a tiny percentage of profs have textbooks, much less depend on them. Those with them see very little profit.
PaintedSlate
The exceptions are exactly that, exceptional. Or for whatever other reason nationally popular.
DukeSamuelVimes
Yeah, most profs with textbooks are usually just because they've been teaching long enough that they can make the best resources for the
DukeSamuelVimes
work they teach, it's really only in America where they get rehashed every year, posted as obligatory and then sold for exorbitant prices.
PaintedSlate
I've never actually seen anything resembling it in America. My sense is it's pretty rare here but deeply resented where it happens.
mike13815
I did for the robotics course I teach. Got a $1000 stipend because my course material cost was $0 to students.
SleeperXib
This is a beautiful incentive system I'm hearing about for the first time.
mike13815
Most colleges have it. The problem is that students will complain "I don't have a computer" to read the open source book, and I've even had
mike13815
students outright offended at the idea of spending 10 minutes in the school library to print it out for free.
ihaveagirlsname
...and Karen was born.
SleeperXib
I feel like, college costs so much already. Having a basic laptop in this era isn't an unreasonable expectation.
Sugarcrotch
idk about being offended but some students dont have the time.. they have to study/homework while at their jobs
jbilly90
Wow just wow. Those kind of people suck. I wish i had this in school
Saucysauces
Our college REQUIRES a textbook. We will be told we need a textbook then the first day some classes will tell us to just return it.
thesauceisboss
Someone’s parents are paying for their, um everything.
MementoMoriMotherFucker
The problem at my college was that printing ended up being just as expensive as the book