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Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 3 days ago by Joker to c/[email protected]

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A recent study published in the Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice sheds light on people's motivations to use Z-Library. Expensive books and limited access to academic material play a key role among those surveyed. That includes a group of Chinese postgraduate students who believe that shadow libraries help to overcome (academic) poverty.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Shocker! Good for them, course literature costs a literal fortune.

[–] Sabre363 19 points 3 days ago

The word your looking for is extortion