mollybri22: inunchartedwaters:amplifytheworld:referencesforartists:brenanf999:dontwantyourmo
mollybri22: inunchartedwaters: amplifytheworld: referencesforartists: brenanf999: dontwantyourmoneysir: anndruyan: This is a summary of college only using two pictures; expensive as hell. That’s my Sociology “book”. In fact what it is is a piece of paper with codes written on it to allow me to access an electronic version of a book. I was told by my professor that I could not buy any other paperback version, or use another code, so I was left with no option other than buying a piece of paper for over $200. Best part about all this is my professor wrote the books; there’s something hilariously sadistic about that. So I pretty much doled out $200 for a current edition of an online textbook that is no different than an older, paperback edition of the same book for $5; yeah, I checked. My mistake for listening to my professor. This is why we download. Alternatives to buying overpriced textbooks Textbooknova Reddit Bookboon Textbookrevolution GaTech Math Textbooks Ebookee Freebookspot Free-ebooks Getfreeebooks BookFinder Oerconsortium Project Gutenberg Spreading this shit like nutella because goddamn textbooks are so expensive. not necessarily art related but as someone who couldn’t afford their textbooks this semester this is a godsend REBLOGGING because after a little digging, I found my $200 textbook for free in PDF form. friendly reminder that this exists since I know we’re all going back to college soon I literally have a professor that wrote the textbook for our class and it cost $20 because he thinks the price of textbooks are ridiculous -- source link