• jaybone@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    For someone with such a good sense of humor, you’d think he would have written a more entertaining physics book.

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    2 months ago

    we had that book in uni, 5th edition or so i think. it was so expensive that it was cheaper for me to buy an e-book reader and pirate the book. and this was when the original kindle was like 300 bucks.

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      2 months ago

      It’s fine, just overpriced (and kind of massive). Openstax has a comparable three volume set of books that is free.

    • glilimith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 months ago

      I’ve had classes with a couple textbook authors and every time they strongly imply that we should pirate their books. People write textbooks out of frustration with their alternatives, not out of profit motive. The publisher is the one making most of that cash.