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For those of you that have yet to embark on your secondary education, this is how you know you’ve got a champ of a professor

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Yep, and a good way to make acquaintances in class if you let everyone know you can be the PDF kid. 🤓

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Oh no, it also looks like I’ve spilled https://www.smartquantai.com/ over there. What a disaster, don’t look at that mutual aid community for hard to find papers; it’s full of communists and anarchists. Next thing you know, they will be screaming Kropotkin quotes… Cannot have that kind of radical behaviour in a science community after all.

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Oh goodness, looks like I splashed all over here: https://mander.xyz/post/17313841

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LOOKS LIKE I’LL NEED TO BREAK OUT ZOTERO TO CLEAN UP THE MESS.

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I’m sure glad this isn’t a Music Forum

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I know this is a helpful community, but it looks like the biggest scam site of all time lol

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The url also sets off so many alarm bells for me. Lol

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Haha, I know, but it’s a good site!!

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One of my professors wrote the textbook we were using. Before the first day of class, he sent out a greeting email. Attached to that email was a .PDF of the textbook. Hell yeah.

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That’s really rare. Back when I was in school the professor who taught the class and wrote the book would, every year, change enough of it to sell a new addition. Either move the sections around or change the problems.

Just so he could make more money.

It was a calculus class.

Fuck him.

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Oh man. In undergrad I had a Thermodynamics professor who used the DRAFT VERSION of his textbook to teach with. It was completely unedited and he expected us to catch any errors. He was also like 80 years old, doddering, hard of hearing, forgetful, didn’t give us a syllabus until halfway through the semester… It’s the only class in undergrad that I got less than a B in. Years later I still resent him lol

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Entropy man. It’s a bitch.

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I give you permission to stop caring about that grade and to forgive someone who was surely on the way out after your class. The likelihood is that he died years ago.

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Ha hell yeah. My dad did adjunct work for a while while working for the gov. He declined profits from his textbook and gave it out free to his students as he thought it was unethical. The copies the gov bought for their cont ed courses he gladly accepted the profits from though lmao my dad’s a real one.

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It’s more of a grad school thing but I’ve had professors just give us all physical copies of their book because they have too many cases of free copies at home.

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Why is it a problem that you gave anna’s archive 5 £?

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Fast downloads are a gateway drug.

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It’s a continuation of the joke in the image

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…or kneecapping it.

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This needs a crosspost in Piracy

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No, piracy is bad you see. This isn’t advocating piracy, the professor warned them about accessing the sites.

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You can also ask a librarian for help. We like finding things and might be able to get a copy through interlibrary loan or other connections. We also like girl scout cookies, especially the ones with coconut.

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If you are are doing any kind of learning (as a citizen or registered student) your local librarian, particularly your local academic librarian, is your best friend and you just don’t know it yet. Introduce yourself, and come with questions.

But don’t neglect your public librarians either - that light I saw in their eyes when asking about an obscure service they offered stuck with me.

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The second one gave me a message that the domain has been seized. :(

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That’s to be expected. It’s probably an oldish image. Libgen (and Anna’s Archive, et al) have periodically drawn attention from prosecutors, not unlike other so-called “piracy” sites. I wish I had enough storage and upstream to seed their torrents. In particular, Anna’s Archive has ebooks of old books I’ve never been able to find elsewhere, regardless of price. I wish libgen had been around when I was in college.

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