What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?

Re:What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book? by selimthegrim on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @06:12PM (#32337167)

All the students in a course I was teaching apparently were using Chegg for the previous year’s textbook so I decided to use as a supplement (to Strang [which was not the previous year’s book but had all the answers online anyway]) an old Mir publishers book on Diff Eq which I can’t remember exactly how I got (either a bookstore in the French quarter or maybe a library remainder sale).

At any rate it turns out the English printing is so rare not only can it not be found on Libgen - the few copies online are selling for hundreds of dollars (which I certainly would not have paid for it). So not only did I luck into a paper fortune (I suspect this is a rather illiquid market - plus I had to go through and fix a bunch of typos by hand, so much for the Soviet STEM educational complex) the kids _definitely_ couldn’t find this on the Internet.

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Re:What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book? by cafeinux on Thursday August 04, 2022 @12:31AM (#32339388)

Did you put it on libgen?

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Re:What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book? by selimthegrim on Thursday August 04, 2022 @02:48AM (#32339944)

I may soon - there is a book scanner in the med school library and I doubt very much they care about a Soviet copyrighted book (if USSR even asserted such a thing abroad or Russia does now for them).

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Re:What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book? by actionfromafar on Thursday August 04, 2022 @04:28AM (#32340560)

Russia increasingly does not care about copyright of foreign stuff, so there's that symmetry going too.

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