/sci/ - Science & Math

No. I prefer writing in mine with pen and spilling coffee on the pages.

>>11009507
I write mine with blood, sweat and coffee

>>11009360
That's cool as fuck, very nice OP!

Very cool anon
I like to write my study notes like I'm writing a small book: cover, index, header and footer of every page, diagrams; everything in libreoffice tho

I've actually been wanting to do this for a while, but was always too lazy and instead resorted to printing off my textbooks chapter by chapter in 4-fold booklets. I used a drill bit to punch holes through the middles, and stitched each booklet together with white thread.
I wanted to make my own bootleg softcover versions in iconic Springer yellow, but the whole glueing of the spine and shaving the edges flat just seemed to require to much precision, and I didn't want to go through the effort only to end up with an unshapely mess.
I could have done coil bound but that shit is ugly.

>>11009360
Looks great, OP. Where did you learn all necessary info?

>>11009360
were you lying about the math students inviting you to hang out?

>>11009360
Yeah no one wants to hang with you, especially not the autists that study math. They lack the ability to want to hang.
No but you got a guide to book binding? What kind of paper should I print with?

>>11009360
I don't bind them myself but I know a guy who does and buy them off him. His work is really nice and I just have to pay the cost of the paper.

>>11009360
Obviously the lie is that the professor was visibly erect, we can read the name on the book.

>>11010200
Bigot

What is your guys opinion on professors using their own textbook for a course? Seems super shitty to me, if they do it they should be mandated to provide it for free as it's an obvious conflict of interest. It also disincentivizes criticism of the content or even a proper discourse on it.

>>11010467
>if they do it they should be mandated to provide it for free as it's an obvious conflict of interest
That's what the rule should be. Sometimes there just isn't another book to use.

>>11010467
Fine so long as it’s well written and priced fairly. A professor who is capable of writing a good textbook is a step above most of them.

As someone older than 99% of this board, physical textbooks can go fuck themselves. I will never go back to pre-ctrl F

Also the only professor edition textbooks I ever bought were cheap as fuck anyway, I always pirate everything else or simply don't buy it depending on the book ever being used. I'm a cheap bastard and not pretending I'm doing it for moral reasons but textbook companies are evil

>>11009360
>sell it to visibly erect professor at substantial markup
Either this is the lie or your professor is Microcephalus, King of the Retard Gods.

>>11010467
>Seems super shitty to me, if they do it they should be mandated to provide it for free as it's an obvious conflict of interest. It also disincentivizes criticism of the content or even a proper discourse on it.
I concur. I had a couple who were bros and gave out pdfs of their books for free. There was one who made everyone buy his book, but I refused. It was a history class so I got away with it easily. Fuck that professor, he was overrated as hell. All the history kids lined up to suck his dick and talked about his class like it was the Sermon on the Mount. I never heard him say a damn thing I didn't already know by the end of high school.

>>11010187
That's beautiful. I really want to learn how to make that.

So nice in here.

Anyone else fantasize about having a vast library of esoteric knowledge in their home? How can I go about starting a collection of books?

>>11011177
go to college

>>11009360
>riehl
So is she a lesbian or what.

>>11011177
don't need to fantasize

>>11010678
Beautiful metaphor, I'm stealing this if you don't mind.

>>11011293
>electronic libraries

>>11009360
If a professor makes bank by selling his own books to an audience with no choice pick a different professor.

bump

>>11011177
do you know how to build? do you know how to bind?
probably not, because otherwise this question would be trivial.
I'd start it in your basement so neighbors don't get suspicious of your weird illegal library.

>>11011177
give yourself the remainder of a liberal arts education:
>become a competent autodictat
>english until youre competent enough to read everything youll need to
>math at least through calc
>physics, biology, chemistry at least 1 level past introductory
>introductory rhetoric, enough to see through bullshit fairly well
>philosophy through aristotle
from there, you should have the basics you need to explore in whuchever direction you want to. also, research your books well, down to the edition, and buy durable books or get high quality leather ones made from pdfs (most leather bounds nowadays are shit, find ones with good paper that's sewn in and real leather)

How do you bookleg from your teammates' copy?

>>11013654
copy. paste.

>>11010187
Looks exquisite.
I have a friend who does bookbinding as a hobby, after this thread might look into getting custom books

>>11013654
Xerox machines work very well

Give me some books on bookbinding on the cheapside.

very enterprising and creative op. cool hobby, making money, and btfoing textbook kikes. i like you.

>>11010187
>I just have to pay the cost of the paper.
Stop exploiting your sperg friend. Pay him some shekels.

>>11009360
Where did you learn how to do this? Can you give some direction on maybe what sites or books you used to learn? I think i will try it next summer for my fall courses except with pdf available books

Any recommendations for learning rhetoric?

>>11015990
Not OP.
You can find many books about book binding in any online library. There is also many kits online that have every tool you need, guide and materials for one or two books.

>>11010467
My experience is the proffs book is 50% or more cheaper than the commercial one, so no complaints. Has your mileage varied?

>>11016458
And they're all meant for Artisans willing to drop hundreds of dollars into a book, and putting hours or even days of effort into it. I want a cheap book binding, no nonsense book. It's not a hobby. I want to replicate the books to read them and to sell them because I do not have much money.

>>11016664
Yet it cannot be pirated, idiot, so 50% off means nothing if the one that costs more can be found online for free.

you don't need a book about cheap and easy binding. it's paper and PVA.

I like this thread

>>11009360
>>can't afford the prof's own shitty textbook
That's when you steal his usb drive when he's not looking.

>>11009360
I actually made my agenda. I plan to bind Moby Dick later on.

>tfw my country isn't fucked by crony capitalism so I don't learn cool rogue-like skills to get by

>>11020049
must be nice