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fluidistic
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What the title reads.
Ebooks count. Do you buy used textbooks too?
Personally, I usually try to get a PDF/djvu file of a book I am interested in (and/or simply skim through it via Google book if possible). If I like it, I check its price on Amazon, buy it if it is cheap (I take into account the price and also the number of pages. Paying 13 euros for a 100 pages book? No.). I also check its price on Abebooks, even if it is a used textbook. I got a very cheap book on solid state physics on Abebooks. Something like 10 euros for a textbook coming from a library in England, the book had been borrowed only twice in its lifetime, once in 2003 and once in 2006, needless to say it was in perfect conditions (and even solidified compared to the original non hard cover).
There are a few books I paid over 50 euros to get (Optics by Born & Wolf, Introduction to many-body physics by Coleman, Modern Condensed Matter Physics by Girvin).
So far I haven't bought any book for the Kindle (even though I own a Kindle), usually the comments are pretty negative regarding the display of math expressions, so I do not even consider buying a single text-ebook that way.
Ebooks count. Do you buy used textbooks too?
Personally, I usually try to get a PDF/djvu file of a book I am interested in (and/or simply skim through it via Google book if possible). If I like it, I check its price on Amazon, buy it if it is cheap (I take into account the price and also the number of pages. Paying 13 euros for a 100 pages book? No.). I also check its price on Abebooks, even if it is a used textbook. I got a very cheap book on solid state physics on Abebooks. Something like 10 euros for a textbook coming from a library in England, the book had been borrowed only twice in its lifetime, once in 2003 and once in 2006, needless to say it was in perfect conditions (and even solidified compared to the original non hard cover).
There are a few books I paid over 50 euros to get (Optics by Born & Wolf, Introduction to many-body physics by Coleman, Modern Condensed Matter Physics by Girvin).
So far I haven't bought any book for the Kindle (even though I own a Kindle), usually the comments are pretty negative regarding the display of math expressions, so I do not even consider buying a single text-ebook that way.