<p>Hi,</p>
<p>My gov teacher wants us to buy our own copy of our textbook instead of using our own copy (for highlighting) but the book costs about $200. If I took my school copy to kinkos and asked them to photocopy and bind the entire thing, would that be legal? Also, would kinkos do this? This would save me $150.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>No. Copyright law.</p>
<p>@skieurope Oh. What would be the consequences if I were to do this</p>
<p>@tigerman333 If you get caught, a court case, (jail time?). Not caught, well, nothing.</p>
<p>Just don’t do it. Just write notes.</p>
<p>You can probably find a cheap, used textbook somewhere online, like Amazon.</p>
<p>Moot point. Kinkos won’t do it. Try to find a used copy at Amazon.com or half.com or some other “used book” seller.</p>
<p>Find a used copy or find a place that you can rent the textbook. I understand the temptation, textbooks are expensive, that is the first thing you find out in college, but it is not worth the risk. Used and rented books are significantly cheaper. Or you can check if an upperclassmen friend that took the class has a copy that they would be willing to loan/give you.</p>
<p>It’s illegal, but you probably wouldn’t get caught. Either way - Kinkos won’t do something like that. Check Amazon for cheap/used copies or ask a student who has taken that class a previous year</p>
<p>I’m sure you can find a cheap copy online (try Amazon?). Also I guess I’m not entirely sure why highlighting is necessary - can’t you just take notes from your school copy?</p>
<p>Or use a yellow sticky notes to annotate instead of highlighting as my D did.</p>
<p>What I do is get my phone and take a picture of every page. So now I can study anywhere I want, since I always carry my phone. It can work for a tablet too.</p>
<p>Are you really considering buying a book just to make colours in it? no highlighting is worth $200. </p>
<p>It is totally not illegal. It is expressly legal by copyright law. Copyright law allows one to make a single copy of copyrighted material for personal educational purposes. I will not dig up the reference, but it should not be too hard to find.</p>
<p>Kinko’s will not do it, since they do not know for a fact that it is for personal educational purposes and they do not want to risk a lawsuit. You can try to talk them into it. (good luck with that!)</p>
<p>@UC6729, are you familiar with Calibre to convert filetypes and save to a Kindle, for example?</p>
<p>You should be able to purchase a cheap used copy.</p>
<p>It should be illegal for your teacher to make you pay $200 for the sake of highlighting!</p>