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Title: Textbook Torrents?
Post by: Audioslave on March 02, 2013, 11:51:23 PM: Anyone know a good site to get textbook downloads? I need "Food & Culture, 6th" and it's $200+. I'm already thousands in debt from books, I'm ok relieving some of that if it's somewhere online! Any ideas?
Title: Re: Textbook Torrents?
Post by: Roger Bacon on March 03, 2013, 12:51:28 AM: All I could find: https://www.cengagebrain.com/shop/isbn/9780538734974

$10 a chapter, or $71 for the ebook.
Title: Re: Textbook Torrents?
Post by: outby43 on March 03, 2013, 01:08:10 AM: I can get you the 3rd edition

edit: sorry not the same authors
Title: Re: Textbook Torrents?
Post by: outby43 on March 03, 2013, 02:32:13 AM: I would just walk into the school bookstore and walk out with it. There isn't anyone there that will stop you except a bunch of nerds that volunteer.
Title: Re: Textbook Torrents?
Post by: WOOO on March 03, 2013, 05:51:07 AM: Quote from: outby43 on March 03, 2013, 02:32:13 AM
I would just walk into the school bookstore and walk out with it. There isn't anyone there that will stop you except a bunch of nerds that volunteer.

no you wouldnt
Title: Re: Textbook Torrents?
Post by: HTexan on March 03, 2013, 06:32:07 PM: Quote from: Audioslave on March 02, 2013, 11:51:23 PM
Anyone know a good site to get textbook downloads? I need "Food & Culture, 6th" and it's $200+. I'm already thousands in debt from books, I'm ok relieving some of that if it's somewhere online! Any ideas?
$108.00 international Ftw. Some colleges frown on this tho, and tell the professors to confiscate them.
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?isbn=0538734973&sortby=17&sts=t&x=42&y=9
Title: Re: Textbook Torrents?
Post by: mass243 on March 06, 2013, 12:58:13 PM: Thousands in debt from books :o

wtf man.. back when I was studying, we mostly borrowed necessary books from library, sometimes copied them so we could keep them forever.
No libraries + copy machines in your place?
Title: Re: Textbook Torrents?
Post by: HTexan on March 06, 2013, 03:42:34 PM: Quote from: mass243 on March 06, 2013, 12:58:13 PM
Thousands in debt from books :o

wtf man.. back when I was studying, we mostly borrowed necessary books from library, sometimes copied them so we could keep them forever.
No libraries + copy machines in your place?
Libraries only have 1 or 2 of each textbook for a reason. And you won't get one at test time. 10 cents a page can add up.
I knew a few people that would buy the book, go to a shady copy place, and they would copy the book for them and the return the original. I hear they would paying 40-ish or something.

You best bet to do it cheaply is to find a buddy in the class and share a book.
Title: Re: Textbook Torrents?
Post by: mass243 on March 07, 2013, 08:14:45 AM: Quote from: HTexan on March 06, 2013, 03:42:34 PM
Libraries only have 1 or 2 of each textbook for a reason. And you won't get one at test time. 10 cents a page can add up.
I knew a few people that would buy the book, go to a shady copy place, and they would copy the book for them and the return the original. I hear they would paying 40-ish or something.

You best bet to do it cheaply is to find a buddy in the class and share a book.

Yes, done that also.

Plus most of the time I managed with just my notes from classes.
Possibilities on this of course vary a lot in different places.