FRIENDLY REMINDER!
Since most of you are probably still in school, and some of you are starting college for the first time I have a friendly piece of advice
DO NOT BUY YOUR BOOKS FROM YOUR SCHOOL BOOKSTORE!
You can hundreds, yes hundreds buying them used online. My total book cost this semester was just $70. You can save a shit ton of money renting them from Amazon or buying them from places like Chegg and other similar sites.
DO NOT BUY FROM CAMPUS BOOKSTORE!
>buying books
>ever
Cuck.
>using cuck
>ever
pleb
It's personal preference, but I like being able to physically hold the book and flip through it. It's easier than having to scroll through a PDF or something like that.
>buying anything ever
>just 70$
>moar leik JUST 70$
jokes on you fag, my 1.1k pages physics books cost me literally 0 cents. 600 pages calc I through III, 0 cents. 400 pages matsci, 0 cents.
see
Also $70 isn't a lot of money.
I print them. Toner is cheap.
Print them where? At your schools library?
some of my textbooks just aren't on any torrent sites yet
Still saved like $50 buying an ebook instead of a hard copy from the bookstore
No. I can afford a printer. Example of cheap one:
bytecno.it
Buy the toner off the internet or from a recharge station. You're going to save A LOT and you can underline all the stuff you want with colored pencils :)
Do you print the entire PDF or just the sections you need?
Buy books off abebooks. It's sometimes half as expensive as amazon, even new
>people suggesting pdfs over physical copies
When will this meme die?
>buying books
For the cost of about 1 term's worth of textbooks I bought a quality tablet and can just find PDFs of them online. I have never spent a single cent on textbooks.
I can also take all my notes and complete all my assignments it. I laugh as I see others lugging around 4 textbooks and a forest's worth of notebooks and papers as I walk to and from class carrying just my 2 pound tablet.
What tablet you get? Is it better than a laptop screen?
I have a surface 3+keyboard. Got a really good deal on it during Black Friday. Has a 1920x1280 screen.
Gen chem, precalc, calc, physics, total book cost=00$
you can't tell me what to do :^)
Not nice to read on - if you're going to buy a tablet for reading aim for 260dpi+.
For those that prefer paper (much like myself), buy them second hand from the graduating year. There are almost always book sales when people are starting.
It's quite nice to have a library of new books though.
>Spending $70 and thinking that's a steal
>Not knowing how to scour the internet for files through private trackers
It's not a university thing, it's an academia thing. And yeah it's a scam. But by spending $70 you're just contributing to the problem by not being smart enough to effectively google. Good on you OP.
mfw three out of five classes require the online access that costs $120 each. The other texts I got older editions for five bucks each on amazon b/c I couldn't find torrents.
Basically this, I have the book but I don't have the online access that comes with actually buying the book properly
Did you even read the thread? OP mentioned that he likes the feel of physical books more than scrolling on a page. Not only would I agree with that, but I feel like I genuinely learn better and retain more information reading it from a book than off of a screen. Typically what I do is download the PDFs of the books I need for school and then check out books on those topics from the library to supplement.
are there any textbook torrents?
like full pdfs?
yeah, but they're usually small enough for direct download.
check libgen
>bought/rented 5 textbooks for $130
D-did I do good?
What private trackers have textbooks on them? Help a fellow user out pls
NOT EVERYONE WANTS TO READ A FUCKING BOOK ON A LAPTOP SCREEN
this
>not buying your textbooks from India for pennies on the dollar
>tfw even if you can avoid buying the book from the bookstore you still gotta pay 60$-100$ to get access to the online homework
>Toner is cheap.
What kind of world do you live in?
>I have a surface 3+keyboard
>For the cost of about 1 term's worth of textbooks
??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
America
This is when you realize you're going to a shit uni
Professors give so little of a fuck they don't even write questions
What are you even paying them for
>retards who don't buy books
at least get the previous edition or something. STEM textbooks are supposed to be your professional library starter kit.
i can understand not buying gen ed shit, but stuff directly related to your major you should have.
Bump
Why not, retard? Let's compare:
If you read a book on a laptop screen, you
>spend 0 dollars and 0 cents
>don't have to lug around heavy-ass textbooks
>have random access and search of the book's contents
>aren't contributing to the scam that is the textbook industry
If you read a paper textbook, you:
>spend hundreds of dollars needlessly
>have to carry around a bunch of heavy-ass textbooks
>and you better hope you didn't forget to bring one of your textbooks!
>have to flip through the contents or index to find what you're looking for
>tfw shitty table of contents
>tfw shitty index
>tfw the last person who owned this book scribbled all over it with a highlighter like a toddler
>tfw all of the answers are written in
>tfw missing pages
>tfw water damage
>tfw you are questioning all of your life decisions
>tfw you still think reading on paper is justified because you have an unsupported belief that reading on paper is somehow inherently better than reading on a screen
I prefer my kindle blackwhite.
> paper like pages
> more portable than my laptop
> instant access to dictionaries and Wikipedia
Those are a lot of shitty reasons. I have 4 books none of which are big, and I only have to carry them around if I go to the library to study, which is not often (i prefer to study at home where it is completely quiet)
>What are you even paying them for
To teach
You could teach yourself via books. The only useful reason to go to university is for the labs.
Sometimes is nice to have someone answer questions if you're stuck on something, also when explains something it's easier to understand
This post reads like a shill
>mfw all my teachers want online codes for their class
Wow you Americans really dumb if you need reminders for this shit, just imagine how much money they are making out of the tons of mindless college drones...
Just get your books on abebooks, I bought from there books like Clayden in perfect condition for 1$ (I shit you not), Simmons differential equations for a few bucks and so on.
I also got copies of Landau from "antique book stores" (don't know how they are called in English or if there is a term for this kind of stores), prints from the 60s, one of them of signed by a guy that was a first year student at the time, I looked him up on Google and it turns out that he's a senior researcher at a physics institute next to my faculty. Fucking gems, man
Which private trackers are best for textbooks user, I will finally have a reason to get into /ptg/
yeah I kinda realized it afterward.
To be more honest:
I rarely use it because I can't Veeky Forums or use it for porn, without finding a wifi (then why not just use my laptop amiright)
Still I want to use it more. Just kinda hide somewhere with my Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and use the free 3G for learning and not get distracted by anything else.
My English teacher required the previous edition of Strunk & White's Elements of Style. It was already on my bookshelf.
Why use a private tracker for books?
Theres only one really active and from what I've heard selection is no better than that Russian Pasta tutorial site.
The only advantage ptgs have are when you're downloading either a lot of content or large files.
>don't know how they are called in English
what* they are called
Wouldn't it still save him money in the long run? I mean the Surface wouldn't disintegrate after a term.
Where do you guys find your e-textbooks now that torrents are a thing of the past?
>he doesn't know...
Libgen/Sci-Hub (found a book on Sci-Hub once, wasn't a textbook though, it was a mathematical biography, pic related)
Also there are private torrent trackers that people use for books. These are the ones I've heard of: MyAnonamouse and Bibliotik. I'm not a guru on this though, I've looked into these recently and I'm yet to try them (they have an interview/invite system)
Forgot pic.
Ahhh, I saw Ken Ono lecture on this in person once. Excellent presenter.
Wish I was there. You should read the book, it's on Libgen, I found the way he intertwined Ramanujan's life and his own fascinating.
knowledge is free
also,
>physical books
good luck grandpa
>Thinking schools/professors don't know about book torrents.
Good luck trying that when the professor requires you to use an online site for the class and the access code is only in new, sealed books. Or you have to buy the code online.
Many books that are otherwise overpriced have an Eastern Economy Edition or an Edition printed for China ( in English ) which are usually a minimum 50% off from what you would normally buy. This is of course if you enjoy physical books more than reading a PDF on a monitor, which is something I can sympathize with.
Depends on the book, if you were to print a dover book you would be retarded. So some common sense is to be exercised.
I wish I could do like you but I live in a shithole country and would probably get mugged in my university campus.
That would be great if the professor didn't write the book.
Also, new editions are hard to find.
I'll drop the course and take it with another professor next semester
Fuck that bullshit
Honestly while I prefer the tactile paper thing, it's really fucking nice to be able to Edit--->Advanced Search for a keyword through all of my books in Acrobat so I know which physical books to pull off the shelf.
Smh at all these assholes bragging about pirating. I hope you rot in jail, petty thieves
It's okay to pay full price for hard copies of books you really like and plan on reading again. There's also the case where the required book isn't available anywhere else (lab manuals, etc). Other than that, you should try to get your other books for free/rent them.
I get my books for paid for via a scholarship, I can even sell them back after the semester is over.
>Do not buy books from campus bookstore!
>Buy them used!
Why not just borrow it from library? Just started college and I already borrowed one of my chemistry manuals (70$) from my local library and will also borrow my biology textbook (110$) from my library too when needed. Only things I buy are the absolutely necessary class notes, otherwise textbooks are a waste of money.
If you guys need a place for good reading materials, I hear there is a GEN.eral .LIB.rary of .RUS.sian origin based in .ECuador
liberal arts fag detected
>he brushes his teeth immediately after eating