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Originally Posted by jswinden
Bottomline is that the book is most likely available in Romania in some legal format. You just need to get off you backside and go find it. A huge part of being a student is to learn how to find and use the information you need.
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Take it from someone who went to university in eastern Europe: it very well might not be available legally at all in Romania, and if it is legally available, getting it might involve a 10 hour bus ride that would end up costing a quarter of an average month's wages. I've been assigned readings that were not available legally, and some of the text books that we used were out of print and there would be only one copy available in a 50 km radius that the 30 of us in my program would have to somehow share. I'm very lucky that Amazon shipped to the country that I lived in, but I would have to wait quite a while to get my books, which was a big pain. Not all of the students that I studied with had the luxury of being able to order books online, as they had no money and no credit cards, so I often shared my books with my classmates. I've studied in North America at a university and I've studied in Europe and the difference between the resources available here and there is unbelievable.