SHOULD I? buy a scanner and scan my books for college? there over400$

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rahvin

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Originally posted by: passign
damn though,1 book is 90bucks and the thing is only 73 pages


thats over a dollar a page!

Big friggen WHAHHAAAAA Ya big stinking baby. I had a quarter where I paid close to $700 for books. I think I still have them all. Stop being a baby, if you wanna save money scan them, if you wanna own the book buy the book. Don't come on here looking for opinion on whether you should violate the law ya cheap @#$#@!!@.
 

BL0RT

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my crazy russian friend is working on a book ripper. you see you put the book in the contraption it "rips it" and bam out comes a copy of it bound and ready to go. bookz....
 

neomits

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Originally posted by: johnjbruin
Originally posted by: passign
damn though,1 book is 90bucks and the thing is only 73 pages


thats over a dollar a page!

photocopy it.

73pages @ 5c = $3.65
Time spent photocopying=1hr=$20
Commuting to Kinko's=30min=$10
total=33.65

savings ~ 90-35 = $55

Assuming you make $20/hr or your time is worth that.

In this specific case, dont buy it.

look on passign's face when he is caught by the Fed's? Priceless

sorry I thought for sure you were going to do it johnjbruin

 

Gooberlx2

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My school in the UW system is pretty good about texts. We simply check them out at the beginning of the semester and return them at the end. Just like a library (except for things like lab manuals, text supplements and novels). It's a pretty sweet deal. Even so, I find that I so rarely have a professor that teaches out of text, so it's not even worth waiting in line to check it out. I didn't pick up a text for any of my classes last semester and it didn't matter one bit. If there's some important sort of graph, chart, illustration, or whatever I'll just go to the actual library and photocopy it.

So I guess my suggestion is this:

Go over your classes and determine which ones will you actually use the text? If you don't know the prof. then ask someone who's had the class and see how he/she teaches. Are these 300+ level courses? Then class sizes should be smaller, hence less likeliness of text teaching. Are they intro courses with 300+ people? (Soc. 110 anyone?) You might want to get the text, but you may find out that the profs. simply email notes to every student after every lecture, to be as fair as they can (mine did).

P.S. I always hated text taught classes. They tend to be the most boring and most likely to be skipped simply 'cause I don't wanna get outta my warm bed in the winter.
 

Pooteh

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unless you have some crazy ass scanner, it will scan a page very slow:p like maybe 5 times slower then a nice fast copy machine at best. and if you want atleast photocopy level quality, you'll need to scan at a decent resolution making it even slower:p
 

AnyMal

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Originally posted by: BL0RT
my crazy russian friend is working on a book ripper. you see you put the book in the contraption it "rips it" and bam out comes a copy of it bound and ready to go. bookz....
Why stop there? I mean, if you're going to make a device that makes illegal copies of books why not go for the kill and make a "money ripper"? Very convenient if you ask me - in goes one dollar bill, out comes several hundred dollar bills. Russians would line up around corner to buy one...