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anilakartoday at 4:27 PM2 repliesview on HN

At 150 eurobucks apiece, printed freshman coursebooks were prohibitively expensive in uni. We just pirated everything as a consequence.


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Symbiotetoday at 4:53 PM

At my university in actual Europe, many copies of the required textbooks were available in the library. Printing was free.

Flaviustoday at 4:29 PM

That's the whole point. They don't care about students or education, they care about wasting resources and making a lot of money in the process.

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