Photocopies vs Real books
Yesterday I was talking with my friend, who is also about to graduate [from different locality] & he was telling me that he has spent lots of amount in books & have to sell them back.
Engineering books are obviously costly & return prices on books also not always good. But he was shocked when I told about my expenses on books 😏 In my locality, all the photocopies [Xerox] of the books are sold. The real book usually costs 300-700 where as photocopies cost 50-200 wonly 😁 He never knew there's even such system existed !
And I found out many of my friends also were buying books & didn't knew about this system. There is a guy in my locality who sells materials of Brilliant Tutorials at 2500-3000, where actual material costs 15000 😨
What about you guys ? Do you also buy photocopies OR books & sell them back ?
I know it's illegal & clear piracy [and yeah, I am a proud Pirate of Engineering 😛].
Engineering books are obviously costly & return prices on books also not always good. But he was shocked when I told about my expenses on books 😏 In my locality, all the photocopies [Xerox] of the books are sold. The real book usually costs 300-700 where as photocopies cost 50-200 wonly 😁 He never knew there's even such system existed !
And I found out many of my friends also were buying books & didn't knew about this system. There is a guy in my locality who sells materials of Brilliant Tutorials at 2500-3000, where actual material costs 15000 😨
What about you guys ? Do you also buy photocopies OR books & sell them back ?
I know it's illegal & clear piracy [and yeah, I am a proud Pirate of Engineering 😛].
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Ankita Katdare#-Link-Snipped-# This is the reason why using books for study/research is going to be extinct in near future.
We use PDFs of all the major reference books. *for free*
One can love piracy or hate it, but one can not simply ignore it. 😨 -
aviiPDFs even for course books ? Oh, you just beat me !
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circularsquare
Doing piracy is going to be tougher day by day. A welcome change. FBI has closed down some major sites which encouraged piracy. It is time the authors got their dues.AbraKaDabra#-Link-Snipped-# This is the reason why using books for study/research is going to be extinct in near future.
We use PDFs of all the major reference books. *for free*
One can love piracy or hate it, but one can not simply ignore it. 😨
Anyways we Indians should be thankful we have eastern economy editions of all the major publishers. A book which costs 3000 rupees(or 60 USD) in US will cost around 300rupees(5-6 USD) here. I agree that people in US earn more. But 60$ for an American would translate roughly to 10$ for an Indian(this is a guess). Still we are getting a good bargain. -
avii^but in India ?
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