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Mickey
United States2606 Posts
Does anyone know any trackers/websites where I would be able to find textbooks at. If so could you please PM me. + Show Spoiler + 1.Panorama (w/Supersite Code & Maestro WebSam) - 3rd edition, Vista Higher Learning 2.Shelly Cashman Office 2007 Introductory Windows XP edition If I don't get any feedback. I'll just buy the books with whatever money I can scrounge up, or borrow from friends. Thanks as always   | ||
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fusionsdf
Canada15390 Posts
thats really your only legal option | ||
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Mickey
United States2606 Posts
On August 27 2008 11:46 fusionsdf wrote: some colleges and universities offer textbooks for free, so try searching those thats really your only legal option Well my university offers book vouchers, but I'm pretty sure I don't qualify for them. Exactly legal option. If I had a lot of money I wouldn't mind buying the books, but I'm a bit strapped for cash like I've explained. I know some of you guys are die hard anti piracy morally obligated reindeer lovers who love eating nachos while watching horrible hermaphrodite porn, but I'm not. I'm okay with bending the rules every now, and then. Shit..This thread makes me look like a typical whinny user who just wants quick self satisfaction. Which isn't true. I'm either gonna A. Buy the books for the best price I can get although the Spanish book is not under $100 anywhere I check. B. Not buy the books, and hopefully share with someone. C. Download them, and achieve both saving my self some dearly needed money, and getting my material. | ||
micronesia
United States24648 Posts
I don't know of any, but stupid overpriced books are practically included in the cost of admission to a college :-/ | ||
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Mickey
United States2606 Posts
On August 27 2008 11:59 micronesia wrote: It's really not easy to justify this. The one thing I can think of is if you feel that textbooks are significantly overpriced for reasons that deserve to be circumvented, in which you could take a moral stand since almost all people agree with you. Otherwise there's no point in trying to defend the what you are requesting. I don't know of any, but stupid overpriced books are practically included in the cost of admission to a college :-/ I never said I was justifying what I'm asking for. Like I said I won't, because It's irrelevant. I've simply stated that I don't have money, and if I could find an alternative to buying the books such as finding let's say a PDF file of the textbook online somewhere? I'd rather do that. I'd rather not get into the formalities of piracy ,since I can't stand people who are against it for various reasons. I'd simply like to know if anyone knows any good private trackers for books/textbooks/novels. I don't know about the textbooks being included most people I know said they had to buy their textbooks from either the college bookstore which in my opinion sell overpriced books, and buy them from you for way too little, other book stores, or ordering them online. Thanks anyway. | ||
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Chef
10810 Posts
Try some libraries I guess  | ||
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Mickey
United States2606 Posts
On August 27 2008 12:29 PsycHOTemplar wrote: How can you afford tuition and not textbooks? That said, I can't help you, and they're a total rip off especially since sometimes I never even open them. Try some libraries I guess I'm not even going to post a valid response. Go screw yourself Gaylordtemplar. But seriously man. I love you. You're that gay annoying wise cracking Canadian friend I've never had. I'm just going to buy them. Used of course. | ||
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Chef
10810 Posts
 </3 | ||
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Frits
11782 Posts
I feel the pain. | ||
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Mastermind
Canada7096 Posts
On August 28 2008 10:13 Frits wrote: I just spent 200 euros ($294) on 4 textbooks. I feel the pain. Thats actually pretty reasonable for 4 textbooks. First year science for me was insane. Each textbook cost $150-200 and you needed like 4-5 of them. Sicne then I have learned not to buy from university bookstores and to not buy new books either. If you are lucky you can find an older version of the books you want for like 20$ or less online. | ||
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talismania
United States2364 Posts
edit: googling "textbook torrent" should help you some... | ||
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Mickey
United States2606 Posts
On August 28 2008 10:55 talismania wrote: I saw a torrent site on reddit a while back that hosted textbooks. It was down at the time, and I forget the name, so not much help to you there but yeah. The places exist. edit: googling "textbook torrent" should help you some... It still says it's down. I just found out my Spanish 1 book is $175. That's fucking outrageous, and the fucking teacher doesn't want us buying it from outside the bookstore. Fuck her! | ||
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Cambium
United States16368 Posts
What we do in our university is that we sell our books to lower year students, and they hope that the profs don't change the books for any fucked up reason so that they could sell to the next wave of new kids and not lose any money. In any case, a lot of my friends buy textbooks in China/India - international editions. I saw a textbook I used last year in China this summer for ~$10, and I paid like... 150$ for it -.- Sorry for the OT | ||
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XDawn
Canada4040 Posts
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kpcrew
Korea (South)1071 Posts
also, they update books every year "update" meaning that all they do is sit on their asses, change some pics around, change the number of the questions so you get confused when the teacher assigns hw and are general dicks | ||
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