Pirating textbooks for an inexperienced sailor - eviltoast

I’m fairly new to piracy overall, but I feel like I understand the basics of how to avoid my ISP and such. A family member who’s in college texted me the other day asking how she could pirate textbooks and I realized I’d never thought about it. Any tips for pirating textbooks? Safe sites?

  • PeachMan@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    Lots of good advice in this thread, BUT I would set expectations with your family that you probably won’t be able to find brand new textbooks. Books generally don’t get uploaded unless it has been a few years since they was published. So check the publication date before you get your hopes up.

    • loops@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Publication date doesn’t really matter much at my uni, since the only differences would be chapter and page number. I easily make do with the search function in the pdf. …for now. I’m not sure about upper level courses yet.