Re:Don't "buy" e-books from Oxford University Press
by Daviey on Saturday May 24, 2025 @11:49AM
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I won't use printed academic books, ctrl+f and inline links are far too useful in ebooks.
Re:Don't "buy" e-books from Oxford University Press
by DanAtC on Saturday May 24, 2025 @12:33PM
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Then buy the physical to support the ~authors~ publishers and pirate a DRM-free ebook.
Re:Don't "buy" e-books from Oxford University Press
by Daviey on Saturday May 24, 2025 @01:10PM
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That seems the worst of options, because the I'd have a useless shelf of dead wood that only serves as a backdrop to make me look smart on zoom calls.
Re:Don't "buy" e-books from Oxford University Press
by xboxnolifes on Saturday May 24, 2025 @06:51PM
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Ok, then buy the DRM version and then pirate it.
Re:Don't "buy" e-books from Oxford University Press
by Daviey on Saturday May 24, 2025 @06:54PM
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This, I can get behind.
Re:Don't "buy" e-books from Oxford University Press
by bandali on Saturday May 24, 2025 @12:31PM
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Regarding the 14 day return policy:
> You must not have viewed or printed, in total, more than five percent (5%) of the e-book.
-- from <https://global.oup.com/academic/help/ebooks/?cc=ca&lang=en&#...>
According to that I'm not covered because I tried to print more than that percentage of the book to PDF (and was presented with the kind of unusable garbage output shown in my post).
The dead tree version is about a dollar more than the silly lease-under-onerous-terms-pretending-to-be-purchase version. Do the world a favor and opt for the physical book so you don’t contribute to the anti-consumer digital distribution company.