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Printing lots of books
Rhino
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I found an awesome sash of free and legal online books (mostly .pdfs). I want to print them out because reading on a computer starts to suck after awhile. What's a cheap way to do this?
I have a printer at work, but already used it to print out a lot and also abused my home printer for a few thousand more. Eventually I'm going to run out of paper and/or toner (toner being the costly part).
Is there any cheap way for printing out a large amount of data (estimated at about 5 books each being apox 750 pages in length.)? Print service of some type?
I've already spent a ton on books lately and trying to keep costs reasonably low this month
Also I know I could probably go abuse the hell out of a library, school, friends, or work printer - but also trying to be somewhat ethical about it. I won't want someone printing out 5 reems of paper on my printer when I wasn't looking! 50 or 100 here or there ain't bad, but don't really want to more then that.
I have a printer at work, but already used it to print out a lot and also abused my home printer for a few thousand more. Eventually I'm going to run out of paper and/or toner (toner being the costly part).
Is there any cheap way for printing out a large amount of data (estimated at about 5 books each being apox 750 pages in length.)? Print service of some type?
I've already spent a ton on books lately and trying to keep costs reasonably low this month
Also I know I could probably go abuse the hell out of a library, school, friends, or work printer - but also trying to be somewhat ethical about it. I won't want someone printing out 5 reems of paper on my printer when I wasn't looking! 50 or 100 here or there ain't bad, but don't really want to more then that.
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750 pages x $.05 = $37.50
Making your "free" books cost a whole hell of a lot. How about the library? Do they carry a copy or can they get a copy?
Also, that 5 cents per page price is probably the absolute cheapest you would get if you're going to try and get them printed.
Ultimately, at 750 pages (are you sure about that figure? it's awfully large) it's probably not worth trying to print off a lot of them. If you can download the books as .rtf files or something and resize the text to fit more on a page, it would get the pagecount down quite a bit. I've printed off a couple of free mass-market paperbacks and they came to like under 200 pages (down from 300+). You can also save on paper by printing double-sided if that's an option.
No matter what method you try, it's going to cost you though. If you get the stuff printed, it'll cost money, and if you print it yourself it'll cost time. I guess having it printed will also cost time since you won't walk out 10 minutes later with the book.
As for printing them, just call up local print shops and find out how much they charge. Usually it's a certain amount per page, with price breaks after a certain quantity. The shop next to ours charges something like $0.09 per doublesided 8.5x11 black&white, so 500 page book would be 22.50, but that probably doesn't include binding.
mostly:
http://google.com: serach for "site:.edu filetype:pdf [YourAreaOfIntrest]"
(also .gov sites can turn up good papers/books too! Depending on what your searching for of course)
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page (Lots of free books for all different categories)
http://www.mises.org/ (Economic papers/books)
http://tldp.org/ (Linux)
http://freebsd.org (FreeBSD; also xxxxBSD.org where XXXX is free/open/net)
There was another site with free books; like gutenberg - but forgot it
oh and wiki. I save/print a ton of articles from wiki ( http://en.wikipedia.org )
Most of the above is free and legal to use, have to watch google though; sometimes it'll turn up copyrighted stuff that shouldn't be on the internets!!
750, give or take. One book was around 250 pages of 'real' stuff; but had about 100 pagers of 'filler' junk that I printed out. 750 is large, probably more like 300-400 pages. But still.
The font size sounds good. I'll try that; but the reason I like paper is that it's easy to read.
How do you print double side? I tried that, but it got all screwed up.
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So I print pages 1 though 250; stop it, put the papers back in the tray, flip them and print 250-500 ?
My printer is only singled sided.
More like print all the odd number pages 1-500 (q, 3, 5, 7, 9, etc), flip them, put them back in the tray and print the even numbered pages (2,4,6,8, etc.).
EDIT: For all the hassle I'd just try a print shop that will do all this for you (and maybe even bind them for a couple of quid) straight off a flash drive/cd.