It is an injustice that academic books are so expensive. Bryophyte Ecology in print - £120.

Why?

Or are we really just saying that only the privileged are allowed to know things.

@jameschip

the publishers have a captive audience. they know the students HAVE to have just that ONE edition that is the same as last years' except for a comma and an umlaut.

@icedquinn @jameschip

if the lecturers referred to PDFs that they handed out for free and which were up to date and relevant and even correct.

@Nikolai_Kingsley @icedquinn @jameschip
Sci-hub and Libgen to rescue :ablobcatheartsqueeze:
If it would not be for the pirated books then I would have been the same dumb like most others in my town.

@mur2501 @Nikolai_Kingsley @jameschip the ability to steal an education is the most valuable and underutilized part of the internet :cirno_baka:
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It do is, you can get so many wonderful books from the internet.

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