I used it to not have to pay.
I buy 10 books per year off Amazon and the occasional Economist magazine. I am of course not paying for academic journal access or tons of academic books outside my field.
I buy 10 books per year off Amazon and the occasional Economist magazine. I am of course not paying for academic journal access or tons of academic books outside my field.
Download 10 ebooks on a subject, scroll through, read a few excerpts, and the one that I actually start reading, I buy from amazon or a local bookstore and actually read it.
Many books look great, but once you start reading them, are total garbage. This is in the field of IT literature though, so books tend to be very hit or miss, and quickly outdated.