jenny (phire) on Nostr: I know it's super normal to email an academic and ask for a pdf copy of their journal ...
I know it's super normal to email an academic and ask for a pdf copy of their journal article, do the same norms apply to an insanely expensive academic press textbook that I just want to look up something in and am not using in a formal professional context?
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