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 abetterlie
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 Textbook torrent site 
#10667142 - 07/13/09 02:02 AM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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Hey all, I'm about to graduate (CS degree, w00t), and one minot thing that has really pissed me off throughout all of university is the lack of a decent textbook torrent site. I read about one that got shutdown ages ago, but it sounds like it was killed because it was poorly run. I was wondering if anyone here had access to a bunch of textbook pdfs to get this thing started, as I want to start one.
I know starting a tracker is usually a stupid move, but I think this is a worth cause, and I would be willing to pay startup costs. I have some content, but they are all CS/IT textbooks, and some certification CBTs that I grabbed from various public and private sources. Anyone know how to get access to a decent library to start things off?
Any help, suggestions, or direction would be appreciated. Let me know what you think.
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Wizard_of_Odds
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Re: Textbook torrent site [Re: abetterlie]
#10667364 - 07/13/09 03:35 AM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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 johnm214
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Re: Textbook torrent site [Re: abetterlie]
#10671292 - 07/13/09 07:26 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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Excellent move man!
I have nothing to add except that I'm willing to put in a few hours to manually copy some of the lab texts for first year physics labs and miscellaneous other Wiley products (they are the devil).
I do know that you can get wiley pdf's by claiming a disability requiring them (especially visual impairment) and getting your school to request them.
That's all I got, but your is a good fight.
I really think this could be a quasi-capitalist force against those tyrants. Or it could just make them release even more versions of their texts, who knows.
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DieCommie
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Re: Textbook torrent site [Re: abetterlie]
#10671333 - 07/13/09 07:37 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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What about bitme? Thats an education tracker with textbooks.
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Minstrel
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Re: Textbook torrent site [Re: DieCommie]
#10671502 - 07/13/09 08:11 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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I've always found excellent collections with 4shared.
I went completely to digital in my last year with books. Why carry around 10 lbs of paper when you have it all on a USBkey? You have to be insane not to do it.
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abetterlie
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Re: Textbook torrent site [Re: Minstrel]
#10677136 - 07/14/09 06:33 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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Sadly my bitme account lapsed, but that is a great point, it is a tracker with mad educational materials. I was looking to create something more specific though. I know on all the public trackers there are about a million and a half outdated microsoft and cisco CBTs, that it seems noone ever really uses. I want to avoid that. I am going to set up the tracker next week and submit it here, with a rather modest number of initial torrents and hope you guys can help me out a little.
Thanks alot johnm for that power move, I will speak to some of my more fed up CS teachers and see what they say about getting the texts in pdf form.
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"I'm gonna clear the air, with the metal that's known to divide the whole atmosphere, and I love to share, them bullets come dime a dozen I kept 2 so I could have spare."
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moeshroom
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Re: Textbook torrent site [Re: abetterlie]
#10678813 - 07/14/09 11:24 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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http://bibliotik.org/ ;
(5,226 nonfiction eBooks)
http://www.puretorrents.org/ ;
(7,503 nonfiction eBooks)
http://www.what.cd/ ;
(at least 3,953 nonfiction eBooks)
all of these have moderate cs and textbook collections and nice interfaces.
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