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  1. FreshHalibut

    Braving the depths of Chinese internet and shady download sites to avoid paying for textbooks

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    2. TheOnlyGuyEver

      TheOnlyGuyEver

      Major in English, make your own textbook, become what you once despised.

    3. Rynjin

      Rynjin

      Safe gamble, IMO. Buying all those textbooks is more expensive than buying a new computer if you get horrible viruses. Worst case scenario you break even on funds.

    4. Gyokuyoutama

      Gyokuyoutama

      The textbook industry is really weird at the moment, in that a growing number of people are writing open source books and distributing them for free online (or using print on demand services and selling them at slightly more than the cost of printing), while the larger textbook companies are gouging prices at an extreme level even for them.  Thus it's not uncommon to see two equally good books for the same course with one available for free, or costing at most $20 or so, while the other is $300.  The price range of $40-$180 is very sparse, with everything above or below that.

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