Thread: Textbook Torrents says final goodbye
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Old 10-23-2008, 04:34 PM   #93
davidspitzer
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My solution
I am a law student and the text books are just ridiculous in price. I have written some of the electronic text book sights and told them they could do a lot better if they aligned themselves with some of the ebook readers on the market. Reading on my laptop doesn't do it for me.

My solution is I go on amazon and buy the most busted up copy I can find usually at a 1/10th of the new price for the express purpose of cutting off the binding and running it through my scansnap - I have legally purchased a copy which I place on my shelf and convert it to PDF which I read on my SONY 505 and hopefully soon to arrive Irex 1000 reader.

The publishers can make it work if they choose and I have no problem buying it in electronic format, but I do not want to be tied to a laptop. I want to read it how I want to read it.
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