#i was using internet archive for one of my textbooks and then had to actually buy it#like halfeay thru the week too and my quiz on the chapter was due by sunday so i had to hope the shipping got there on time#internet archive is very dear to me anyway but i really did want to shell out for everything (tags via @prok8r)
You're the third or fourth person in the notes who has said something like this, so please let me try to save all of yinz some money!
Though the IA has a lot of textbooks on it, textbooks are not the sort of thing that is usually only on the IA (unless they're, like, the 200-year-old textbooks I'm reading for non-textbook-related reasons). You should be able to find them for free elsewhere.
Let me let you in on a little secret. There are only two kinds of academics: Academics who are too old, independently wealthy, or technologically incompetent to pirate; and academics who pirate. We all do it. Your professor isn't allowed to just send you the whole pdf (and they can get in real trouble for doing it, so if yours did, don't tell anyone). But they do have one. And where did they get it?
The first place to check is always your university library website. Not all textbooks will be there in e-book form, but many will - particularly newer and more expensive books. Some will make you jump through irritating hoops to download it, some won't. Depends on the publisher. Make sure to use the advanced search functions and be thorough!
Second place to check is your physical university library, which has textbooks on hand. Sometimes they will already be checked out, and sometimes they won't let you check them out. But if you're in a pinch and need to do the reading before tomorrow, this is a good place to look.
Third place to check is the Internet Archive, which is sadly not currently available. Leaving this step in, though, since it should be back soon.
The fourth place to check is libgen (dot) is. Don't do this on a university wifi network. It'll probably be too slow to download these massive files, anyway. But libgen has tonnes of stuff, especially textbooks and other non-fiction books.
There have been very few contemporary books I have not been able to find with these methods. If what you're looking for is not contemporary, your net can be wider - google books, wikisource, and project gutenberg have tonnes of public domain stuff.
I would not recommend asking your professor directly about this (because, as I mentioned, they will feel a real temptation to do something illegal and that's not a nice position to put them in) but if you were depending on the IA and it's suddenly not there, they might be sympathetic and give you an individual chapter pdf just one time, which is legal (at least where I am). But try all this other stuff first - nothing bugs a prof like students asking for resources that are definitely there in the library.
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