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afternoonsnoozebutton:

Textbooks are fucking expensive, and if your professor doesn’t require a physical copy (most don’t - they just want you to have the book at hand. Or maybe even not. Some professors literally give no fucks about whether you have the book or not) and you don’t mind having your copy as an electronic copy - this is the post for you!

Most textbook companies put out new editions every year or so even though there isn’t really that much new information. Sometimes they’ll eliminate questions if it’s something like a math or chemistry book or they’ll add in a few sentences about updated legislation (the professor I work for teaches human sexuality, and the newest edition of the book she uses included the 2009 decision to allow same-sex couples have hospital visitation rights). These new editions are pointless and only created to make the textbook company money and to cut down on students selling to each other. You’re going to ignore that. We love older editions. Make sure when you’re searching on the following sites that you don’t include the edition number to give you more search results. If one with your edition comes up - great! If not, you can usually stick to something one to three editions behind without any major changes.

Sites you should be searching:

• FilesTube - FilesTube searches THE ENTIRE INTERNET for files uploaded to file-sharing websites such as MegaUpload, Mediafire, or WuUpload. Sometimes people will upload pdf files of your textbook. This is always an important first search.
• Google Books - You usually won’t find your textbook on Google Books, but it’s always worth a look. Sometimes pages are missing because it’s only a preview of the book, but again - always worth a look.
• Scribd - People upload documents to Scribd and by becoming a member (free!) or connecting through Facebook (if you’re lazy!), you can download whatever files you may find. This sometimes includes textbooks.
• BookBoon - website specifically for finding pdf versions of textbooks
• Curriki - free open source materials
• Flat World Knowledge - free business, humanities, and science textbooks
• California Learning Resource Network
• Open Culture
• Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources
• TorrentScan - textbooks are also uploaded to torrent sites in some cases - you may as well check.
• If push comes to shove, you can try variations of googling “textbook name torrent” or “textbook name download” or “textbook name download free.” Sometimes things pop up and I never would have known about them.
• LibraryPirate is a torrent search site specifically for textbooks. (Added 10 October 2011)
• AMAZING Reddit post (Added 2 November 2011)
• JenkThat - I haven’t tried this out yet, but I’ve heard good things from others. It’s also a good place to find other ebooks that aren’t textbooks. (Added 29 December 2011)

I’ve found all 8 of my textbooks for this term (19 credit hours, six classes) through one of the methods above. I’m not even going to look at retail prices, but checking BigWords.com (which, if you want to buy your books/can’t find them anywhere with one of the previous methods, will give you the cheapest price on the internet), I saved $497.87 by doing this. It takes time, but it’s definitely worth almost $500 worth of time. If you know of more ways to find free textbooks - please let me know!

(post by obsessionfull)

I miss Northridge and not having to worry ‘bout waking your parents once it gets past midnight :(

I miss some stuff about Northridge, but I do enjoy being able to walk downstairs to a fully-stocked refrigerator.

NOTHING AT ALL. Tennessee goes to bed so early.

So does Alameda. We only have two restaurants open past midnight, and they’re both mexican places.

HIIIIII!

‘Sup, Ellen.

There are at least 43 songs I want to do at my next show, and I don’t want to leave any out.

And so far, 27 of those are mine.

• Taylor Swift
• Anberlin
• Kelly Clarkson
• Suicide Silence
• Fall Out Boy 
• Three Days Grace
• Foo Fighters
• Breaking Benjamin
• Snow Patrol
• Falling in Reverse
• Incubus
• Lostprophets
• Nine Inch Nails
• Taking Back Sunday
• Hawthorne Heights
• Jet
• Yellowcard
• Muse
• Tool
• Metro Station
• Dashboard Confessional
• Cute Is What We Aim For
• We The Kings
• Woe, Is Me
• Asking Alexandria
• Skillet
• Pierce The Veil
• Gym Class Heroes
• Avril Lavigne
• 32 Leaves
• Sum 41
• Sugarcult
• Bullet for my Valentine
• 30 Seconds to Mars
• Nevershoutnever
• Bring Me The Horizon
• Awolnation
• Cartel
• Flyleaf
• Secondhand Serenade
• The Band Perry
• Funeral for Friend
• From First to Last
• Decyfer Down
• Tim McGraw
• Death Cab for Cutie
• Deftones
• A Day to Remember
• Dance Gavin Dance
• Katy Perry
• There for Tomorrow
• The Used
• Coldplay
• The Killers
• Nirvana
• Blink-182
• Emarosa
• Panic! At the Disco
• All Time Low
• Evanescence
• Third Eye Blind
• Black Tide
• Iron Maiden
• Nightwish
• Black Sabbath
• Forever the Sickest Kids
• Insane Clown Posse
• Paramore
• The Ramones
• Mariah Carey
• Mumford and Sons
• The Pretty Reckless
• Dirty Heads
• Kid Cudi
• John Mayer
• Antigone Rising
• Blood on the Dance Floor
• Sleeping with Sirens
• Matt + Kim
• Jack Johnson
• Saosin
• Silverstein
• Owl City 
• Ke$ha
• Echo Movement
• New Politics
• AC/DC
• Miss May I
• Stephen Jerzak
• One Direction
• Simple Plan
• Bowling for Soup 
• Avenged Sevenfold
• Rihanna
• My Chemical Romance
• Downtown Fiction
• A Rocket to the Moon
• Selena Gomez and the Scene
• Metallica
• The Summer Set
• Green Day
• Michael Jackson
• Eminem
• Britney Spears
• Chevelle
• Marianas Trench
• The Beatles
• Nicki Minaj
• The Ready Set
• Ellie Goulding
• Lady Gaga
• Justin Bieber
• Mayday Parade
• Maroon 5
• Miley Cyrus
• Hedley
• Adele
• Bob Dylan
• Hinder
• The Jonas Brothers 
• The Script
• Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows
• You Me At Six
• Regina Spektor
• Bruno Mars
• Now, Now
• The Rocket Summer
• Enter Shikari
• McFly
• Less than Jake
• VersaEmerge
• Tegan and Sara
• Marilyn Manson
• Aerosmith
• Korn
• Rise Against
• Apocalyptica
• Slipknot
• Abandon All Ships
• The Maine
• Smile Empty Souls
• Black Veil Brides
• Arcade Fire

i don’t know what the fuck a “9gag” is but i want to punch it in the face.

Kind of like Fratellis songs. They have songs that mention Chelsea, Lucy, Henrietta, Mabel, Rosie, Johanna, and Little Steven. It makes you wonder how many of these people were real.

Exactly! Their songs are like the musical equivalent of looking at pictures of a really awesome party I wasn’t invited to.