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But they weren't useful to the average person until probably around 2012-2013 when smartphone and data prices started to drop some.

Yeah but most people didn't have smartphones for a few more years. Making a smartphone required in 2008 would have been insane.

Wikipedia's entry on Z-Lib has its Tor address on it as well, so you can avoid that link too. Massive repository of textbooks and indeed books of any kind, all just available for free download. Makes me sick.

I will check that book out, thanks!

I'm not concerned with getting rich, I just want to be able to afford to support myself, and potentially a kid one day (though, that's increasingly unlikely). I'm a full time caregiver for my mom, she's disabled, and bedridden. So working from home is pretty important. I don't have any kind of, like, ivory tower aspirations or anything. I don't imagine I'm going to change the world, or be some oft-quoted academic. Lol. I'd love to teach Anthropology and go on digs some day, but I'm getting an English (creative writing) degree, and I'd love to just have a relatively stable income teach some kids about story structure one day.

The Eindhoven University of Technology?

Yeah, and Lincoln coulda faxed a samurai.

Ok. Valid.

Unfortunately those bastards have a more accessible address on the open web that anyone could reasonably use, with or without a VPN to hide their traffic from their ISP. Apparently it's also listed by Wikipedia. RAPSCALLIONS!

Oh, I didn't realize they were available on blackberries and the first iPhone.

I remember there was a lot of confusion in the 90s when email was introduced to teachers and late 90s when attendance was inputted into a computer program. Getting a 60 year-old professor to not only use a smart phone, but to utilize them in a lecture when they've only used books and a blackboard for the last ~40 years of their career would be difficult. Boomers and Silent Generation had a hard enough time figuring out how to use a TV remote, let alone figuring out how to allow students to access a URL via QR code embedded into a PowerPoint presentation.

At the time, I had a qr reader on my android. You're right about the teachers though, 100%. Also, not enough students would have had smartphones to be able to actually do that.