They are not on Anna’s Archive or on MaM. They are available for digital purchase from SpringerPub or Amazon.
Is there a different tracker for textbooks and reference materials?
How likely is it that a request will be fulfilled. Would someone need to buy the book themself and upload it?
There are three torrents at torrentdownloads.pro .
Are you sure?
I do not see any results under ‘Torrent Search Results’.
I see three links under ‘Fast Search Results’, but they are ads and uBlock Origin blocked them.
https://www.torrentdownloads.pro/search/?search=clinical+radiation
The first ‘Torrent Search Result’ is always an auto-generated lie, don’t click.
Not a perfect solution but when I needed specific obscure and/or new editions for coursework, I’d go check out my university library’s copy and photograph all the pages I needed
it’s common for universities to keep a reserve copy (or a few) of any books required by courses. access may be limited (e.g. at my school you could check them out only 2 hours at a time). If your library has a book scanning station your life will be easier so ask if they have one.
One time after class I ran into a classmate trying to do the exact same thing, so we ended up taking turns sharing scan photos to save ourselves time the rest of the semester. Be sure to share the love with any fellow ultra-broke classmates
happy sailing 🏴☠️
You’ll also find that LLMs are actually quite useful in putting together scripts that will take all the photographed pages, and convert them to a proper EPUB format (using OCR, direct extraction of images, etc.), reducing the overall size and improving quality.
Visual models can even create custom CSS for you, and if there are graphs and such, LaTeX can be utilised as well.
All the tools exist separately and LLMs can write that binding glue easily.
Worth a try especially if the textbook is (regular) text heavy.
Text books are often published separately in Southeast Asia and sold for much cheaper than in the west. They are often paper back and printed on thinner paper but the content is the same. Check out Abebooks or BookFinder.com
