When can I legally buy digital version of textbook? I feel bad

>>8246221
Revolution, you can download.

lol Americans...

just mail the author some cash

>>8246221
You feel bad about the cheating the textbook industry? That's like saying you feel bad about cheating a rigged carnival game.

>>8246225
yeah, that's what I am already doing..

>>8246264
I feel bad about the author, it would be nice if there was some digital publisher with honest prices

what are good sites for good scanned shit anyway? I use libgen and bookz but often the quality is really low

>>8246297
If your university isn't shit, then it probably has a student run intranet.

I used to go in with other physics majors splitting the cost of a book. We'd use a bandsaw and cut the spine, scan each page and convert to a pdf with notes.

You don't really have to do that now that ebooks are a thing. Just find someone in campus that already has it.

>>8246235
kek

>>8246581
is it that bad of an idea? same thing as bandcamp basically

>>8246221
There are a handful of publishers that don't rape you and will just let you download PDFs. Very few of them seem to publish textbooks for college students though.
>>8246264
Or like saying you feel tripping a robber. (I suppose that would actually be pretty awkward)

If you really want to use the publisher's "eBook" it's usually pretty easy to rip it into a PDF with curl and image magic.