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- stonebone4, on 10/10/2008, -5/+156Textbooks are highway robbery. Buying used books for $60 each, using them for three months, then selling them back for $10 just so they can turn around and sell them for $60 again? "New editions" with extremely minor changes that ensure you can't borrow books that friends or siblings bought a few years ago?
Yeah, let's shut down this torrent website. We can't have crooks like them infecting the masses. Or they could just, you know, stop sticking it to college kids that don't have any damned money in the first place. - Nillerus, on 10/10/2008, -1/+93Damn. This was my favourite specialised torrent-site. Hint to the hydra: About now would be a good time to grow another head.
- Sparticuz, on 10/10/2008, -3/+64:-( They saved me upwards of 400 dollars a semester
- s0m31john, on 10/10/2008, -1/+61ThePirateBay should bail them out.
- scoottie, on 10/10/2008, -1/+54did they get the book thrown at them?
- bigspooon, on 10/10/2008, -0/+44$60? In my opinion, thats a cheap textbook. I'm used to paying in the low hundreds for my books.
I think the worst part about buying textbooks is when the publisher includes some sort of CD with the book. That automatically knocks the price up $20-$50 and nobody ever even uses them. - notquitegone, on 10/10/2008, -0/+33Fudge. It sucks to find out about a site like this I could totally benefit from, after it's already shut down -- just my luck. Whelp, there goes grocery money come next semester. Some things about college blow.
- ElBeh, on 10/10/2008, -0/+30(Psst, TPB, make a textbook category to your site...)
- LeviTheSmith, on 10/10/2008, -1/+25ThePirateBook?
- quomen, on 10/10/2008, -1/+23It was a great idea, but I found most of the textbooks to be rather dated and they had a limited selection. Torrenting textbooks will never be viable until book scanners become more mainstream and affordable.
http://digg.com/hardware/This_is_one_bad_ass_book_ ...
Yumm... (Don't mind the porn music) - inactive, on 10/10/2008, -1/+23Textbooks need to be pirated as much as possible. The whole thing is such a scam to rip off poor students.
It is hard enough working to put yourself through school, let alone have to buy hundreds of dollars in books every semester. Most of which, you never even end up using, but they were on the required list so you got them anyway.
Then they change the editions every other for no other reason then to destroy the used book market. And they don't even make and good changes. For the most part it is just enough to screw up anyone who is trying to follow along in last semester's edition.
The whole thing is ridiculous and a scam. I don't even care if all the publishers go out of business. Maybe then the professors will actually have to man up and teach instead of just telling you to go home and read 100 pages by Monday. - Farik, on 10/10/2008, -1/+20And that's why god invented Kinkos.
- FeartheKnighted, on 10/10/2008, -0/+19Man I wish I could pay $60 for a used textbook. In engineering used books go for upwards of $100, and I have paid $200 for a text book once before. Complete BS.
- crazzy88ss, on 10/10/2008, -0/+18libraries let you check out a book for 4 months at a time? And have all of the latest college books that just came out? And enough copies for a large group of students to check out?
- rbk303, on 10/10/2008, -0/+18Crap. I guess it's back to being f*cked by the textbook racket.
- oda1, on 10/10/2008, -0/+17I never heard of that site. Too bad though, I reckon I would have found it useful.
- Sparticuz, on 10/10/2008, -2/+19Printing 400 pages at kinkos, though expensive, is way cheaper than my $150 circuit analysis book.
- cawpin, on 10/10/2008, -1/+18Kinkos? Are you ***** serious? Just print it in the computer lab AT school.
- phillykid162, on 10/10/2008, -0/+12*pours out a little liquor for textbooktorrents*
:( - smackydoodle, on 10/10/2008, -1/+13Universities are starting to bypass this whole thing anyways. My wife's university makes them buy specialized books customized from the university and they have to use the unique passcode included in that book to access the online labs. They cut out half the book, include a slip of paper with a passcode, and charge more than the normal book costs. If there ever was a form of price gouging it's the textbook industry.
- dougmc, on 10/10/2008, -0/+12You ever tried to find your textbook in the library?
If they do have a copy, it's already been checked out. Or it's an old edition -- and it's already checked out.
And they probably don't have a copy. - Kazbaeden, on 10/10/2008, -0/+11When you make a claim, the burden of proof is on you. That is, if you want to be taken seriously.
- homesickalien, on 10/10/2008, -1/+11Yes, it did. ;)
mmm...i feel like eating some waffles. - crice, on 10/10/2008, -0/+10Please provide some figures or numbers
- Wilarseny, on 10/10/2008, -1/+11I have well over 100-150 torrents from their language section backed up, and I know there were other users taking on that task in different sections as well. If something major does get started up again, it will not be lacking for content.
- RadiatedAnt, on 10/10/2008, -1/+11"my mind" was that published in pdf or xps?
- Kazbaeden, on 10/10/2008, -0/+10I use a plustek book scanner; the pages come out crystal clear and since the scanner comes to a corner, there's no shadow at the spine. I can do about 300 pages an hour, so I just put on a movie and go on auto pilot. Considering I saved $780 this semester on textbooks, and I've been doing this for 7 semesters, I feel it was a good investment.
- inactive, on 10/10/2008, -1/+10you read my mind....
- gospe1337, on 10/10/2008, -0/+9They should just give us the textbooks on thumb drives.
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U.S. Education Department study on why textbooks cost so much (2006)
http://www.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/acsfa/kochrep ... - NJPENSO, on 10/10/2008, -1/+9got invites?
- gotjpeg, on 10/10/2008, -3/+11In before piratebay buys the domain.
- homesickalien, on 10/10/2008, -0/+8Because they'd be doing half the pirates work. lol.
- schmolch, on 10/10/2008, -0/+8There is a HUGE collection called "Great Science Textbooks DVD Library 2007" that is updated every month or two.
Meanwhile it spans 14 releases totalling 66GB (yes, Gigabytes).
You can find them on tpb and other torrent-trackers.
The only problem you will have is how the ***** are you gonna choose which book to read :-) - 4NDr01D, on 10/10/2008, -3/+10why arent PDF's distributed instead of Text Books ***** the College system!!!
- Tddupre, on 10/10/2008, -3/+10What.cd are you talking about?
- homesickalien, on 10/10/2008, -2/+9Let the Whac-a-Mole game begin.
One goes down, two replace. Thought they'd learn from OiNK.
10/23/07 Never forget. - BlaenkDenum, on 10/10/2008, -0/+7Sucks, but there are other trackers specialized in educational material which contain many textbook and ebook torrents as well, such as bitme and bitspyder.
- jszhang, on 10/10/2008, -0/+7This sucks...where should I find those easy-to-find-in-bookstore-but-really-expensive books?
- prolific, on 10/10/2008, -1/+8borrowing books from friends + digital camera + tripod + 4 second timer + flipping pages = free university textbooks
- charlietuna, on 10/10/2008, -0/+7Yeah, you are so much better off than someone like a Dentist, Lawyer Engineer or Architect who spent that much more on textbooks.
- vstro24, on 10/10/2008, -3/+9what replaced OiNK?
- roxgod666, on 10/10/2008, -1/+7Or you can use the other thousand torrent sites which probably have the exact book you are looking for
- compgeek, on 10/10/2008, -1/+7this blows. They had a good selection of programming and unix ebooks and with my profs asking me to buy unix books that cost upwards of $100 each and buy them for several different distros this site was a godsend in saving me money
- TunaFishGangsta, on 10/10/2008, -0/+6Agreed. This semester my girlfriend paid $160 for just one of three textbooks she needed. It was a revised edition that literally came out 2 weeks before class started.
- jeremymccurdy, on 10/10/2008, -1/+7I really hope this happens, the Pirate Bay would be a saviour to many students' bank balances.
- quomen, on 10/10/2008, -2/+8Do you read using PDF? I don't like the eyestrain and I like having a printed copy for the sake of reading wherever.
- LeviTheSmith, on 10/10/2008, -0/+6Closest thing to it is:
http://thepiratebay.org/browse/601/0/7 - picardo, on 10/10/2008, -1/+7I think the greatest thing about TextBook torrents was not the fact that it was a site dedicated to textbooks, but it categorized textbooks so neatly and so well, and made browsing for books so much fun, kind of like a trip to the library. When I searched for a math book, I only needed to go to the section for math. I didn't need to know the title or the topic. You can't find a torrent engine that categorizes ebooks like that. And that's what I'm going to miss the most. Sure, the torrents can resurface in other engines, but who is going to organize them so beautifully like TextbookTorrents? :-(
- gospe1337, on 10/10/2008, -1/+6U.S. Education Department
AN ECONOMIC ANALYIS OF TEXTBOOK PRICING
AND TEXTBOOK MARKETS
http://www.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/acsfa/kochrep ... - hoisonsauce, on 10/10/2008, -0/+5Do a little searching and you can usually find international editions of the book you're getting. They use cheaper materials, but they're the same books. A classmate of mine did that one semester and every book cost about 75% less.
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