\u00bbWe have a block structure on my study programme, so this means that I don’t have to buy books for one whole semester at a time. I have bought books for the first block in the autumn, where there is only one book on the syllabus. So that’s really cool. It was an e-book and it cost DKK 250.<\/p>\n
How much we need to spend varies a lot over the course of a whole semester. And at the beginning of the programme, we had to spend a lot more money than we do now. I remember, in particular, a real monstrous tome called \u2018Calculus\u2019 or something like that. It cost almost DKK 1,000, but I have actually been quite happy with it. It is one of the few books I’ve bought on my study programme that I have appreciated. I have kept it.<\/p>\n
In general, I am not very good at re-selling my study programme books when I have finished using them. It is also because many of them are e-books, where you only have them for a specific time period because the license expires. So it doesn’t really make sense. That’s also why I buy all my books from new, because it’s almost only e-books.\u00ab<\/p>\n
Sometimes you don’t get much out of having the books, so you could just as well have not bought them.<\/p>\n
Sture Oksholm, fifth semester student<\/p>\n
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Are you familiar with the rules for sharing e-books among students?<\/em><\/p>\n\u00bbMy impression is that, as a rule, it is not allowed. This happened on a previous study programme. I don’t know how widespread it has been, but I’ve seen it happen.\u00ab<\/p>\n
Are you doing anything in particular to be able to afford textbooks?<\/em><\/p>\n\u00bbNo. It may be a bit silly. It is not something that I save up for. It’s just something I buy, and it’s a big item on the budget every time I have to do it.<\/p>\n
Sometimes I have not bought a book because I could see on the syllabus that we don\u2019t have to read a lot in it. Then I’ve just missed it. There are also some books I have bought that I have since regretted.<\/p>\n
There was a statistics course where we had to buy a thick, half-expensive book, where we only had to read two chapters in it. That’s when I thought, OK, I’ll survive if I just don’t get it.<\/p>\n
Sometimes you don’t get much out of having the books, so you could just as well have not bought them. This is, of course, not always the case, and it is difficult to know in advance.\u00ab
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Oscar Klink Madsen<\/h3>\n
\u00bbI have a good DKK 2,000 in books here, the most expensive costing just under DKK 500. They all came out with new editions this year, and we were discouraged from buying used books, so they are all brand new. I would also like to have the best, so this is fine.<\/p>\n
That you have to buy books: This is one of the costs of studying at university.<\/p>\n
Oscar Klink Madsen, first semester student<\/p>\n
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I have not done anything in particular to be able to afford books. I work, and I knew that I was going to have put some money aside for books. I would actually like to be able to sell on my books when I have finished using them, but I can only do that if they have not been updated again in the meantime.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, I would also like to use them as productively as possible, so that I can get the best out of my studies. I would also like to be able to write notes in them, and underline things.<\/p>\n
That you have to buy books is one of the costs of studying at university. We also get the SU study grant, so it’s not entirely unreasonable.\u00ab<\/p>\n
Are you familiar with the rules on the digital sharing of textbooks?<\/em><\/p>\nYes, I read an article a couple of years ago about textbooks that were shared on a USB and stuff like that. I don’t think you are allowed to do this. It hasn’t really been an option for me this year, but it’s not something that I would do anyway.
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There is considerable variation between study programmes though.<\/p>\n<p>Almost half (48 per cent) of<a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/half-of-danish-students-have-illegally-shared-textbooks\/\"> university students have acquired digital textbooks illegally.<\/a> This is according to a survey by Epinion from June this year.<\/p>\n<p>The University Post spoke to three students from different faculties about rules and book budgets.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Image","image":{"ID":138424,"id":138424,"title":"Voxpop Elise Sydendal","filename":"dsc_9015-1-scaled.jpg","filesize":891888,"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dsc_9015-1-scaled.jpg","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/det-er-lige-med-at-finde-ud-af-hvad-der-er-lovligt\/dsc_9015-2\/","alt":"","author":"91","description":"","caption":"Elise Sydendal l\u00e6ser statskundskab p\u00e5 syvende semester","name":"dsc_9015-2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":138414,"date":"2022-09-13 10:53:01","modified":"2022-09-13 10:53:36","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2560,"height":1707,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dsc_9015-1-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dsc_9015-1-480x320.jpg","medium-width":480,"medium-height":320,"medium_large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dsc_9015-1-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dsc_9015-1-1280x853.jpg","large-width":1280,"large-height":853,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dsc_9015-1-1536x1024.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dsc_9015-1-2048x1365.jpg","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1365,"featured-soft":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dsc_9015-1-290x193.jpg","featured-soft-width":290,"featured-soft-height":193,"featured-hard":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dsc_9015-1-290x180.jpg","featured-hard-width":290,"featured-hard-height":180,"narrow":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dsc_9015-1-700x467.jpg","narrow-width":700,"narrow-height":467,"extended":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dsc_9015-1-990x660.jpg","extended-width":990,"extended-height":660}},"style":"narrow","text_placement":"metadata-below","image_link_url":"","image_link_title":"","caption_prefix":"","enable_alternative_caption":true,"alternative_caption":"Elise Sydendal studies seventh semester political science"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<h3>Elise Sydendal<\/h3>\n<p>\u00bbI usually spend around DKK 2,000 a semester. At least if I buy them from new. No actually, it has to be more than DKK 2,000, because I don’t buy new textbooks, and I pay at least DKK 2,000.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p><em>Has it been a problem for you that the books have been updated when you have to buy used books?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00bbNo actually not. I did try missing ten pages in a book that was not the most recent version. You can also keep an eye on how much new material has been added.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is always a shock at the beginning of each semester that there has to be money for books as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Elise Sydendal, seventh semester student<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In my course on European politics, I knew, for example, that there were some fairly large new chapters on Brexit. The book for the subject was written before Brexit, so I prioritised buying the new one.<\/p>\n<p>But when it’s just the small updates, where they have just added ten pages and then tell us that we can no longer buy the used books \u2014 well, then I’ve just bought the used book anyway. I’ve always done fine with it. I can definitely recommend doing that.<\/p>\n<p>It is always a shock at the beginning of each semester that there has to be money for books as well. I don’t make a special effort to afford the student books, but I have a job next to my studies. Otherwise, I would find it difficult to afford the textbooks. I haven’t asked my parents for financial assistance, but I’ve considered it several times, and I know a lot of people who have to go to their mum and dad.<\/p>\n<p>I don’t think the Danish study grant is enough to survive on in Copenhagen if you also have to pay DKK 2,000 a semester on books. I can understand why many people try to get some help from their parents.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p><em>Are you familiar with the rules on the digital sharing of textbooks?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00bbNo. I know that someone from my class found a book online. I won\u2019t mention any names if it really is so illegal. But if you can find it on the internet, then it can\u2019t be completely illegal, but what do I know. If anyone has found an online version and it is sent around, then this is always pretty cool.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p><em>UCPH students have got large fines for sharing digital textbooks. What do you think of that?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00bbI think that it has to be a bit difficult to find out what is illegal to share and what is not. I know that there are some of our books where the instructors say themselves that we should find them online. They say that we can buy them if we want, but that we can also find them online. So there must be some books where it is not illegal. It is about trying to find out what is legal and what is not.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/half-of-danish-students-have-illegally-shared-textbooks\/\"><em> Half of Danish students have Illegally shared textbooks<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Image","image":{"ID":138426,"id":138426,"title":"Voxpop Sture Oksholm","filename":"dsc_9032-1-scaled.jpg","filesize":1186239,"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dsc_9032-1-scaled.jpg","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/det-er-lige-med-at-finde-ud-af-hvad-der-er-lovligt\/dsc_9032-2\/","alt":"","author":"91","description":"","caption":"Sture Oksholm l\u00e6ser machine learning og datavidenskab p\u00e5 femte semester.","name":"dsc_9032-2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":138414,"date":"2022-09-13 10:55:30","modified":"2022-09-13 10:56:23","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2560,"height":1707,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dsc_9032-1-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dsc_9032-1-480x320.jpg","medium-width":480,"medium-height":320,"medium_large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dsc_9032-1-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dsc_9032-1-1280x853.jpg","large-width":1280,"large-height":853,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dsc_9032-1-1536x1024.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dsc_9032-1-2048x1365.jpg","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1365,"featured-soft":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dsc_9032-1-290x193.jpg","featured-soft-width":290,"featured-soft-height":193,"featured-hard":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dsc_9032-1-290x180.jpg","featured-hard-width":290,"featured-hard-height":180,"narrow":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dsc_9032-1-700x467.jpg","narrow-width":700,"narrow-height":467,"extended":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dsc_9032-1-990x660.jpg","extended-width":990,"extended-height":660}},"style":"narrow","text_placement":"metadata-below","image_link_url":"","image_link_title":"","caption_prefix":"","enable_alternative_caption":true,"alternative_caption":"Sture Oksholm is studying fifth semester machine learning and data science."},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<h3>Sture Oksholm<\/h3>\n<p>\u00bbWe have a block structure on my study programme, so this means that I don’t have to buy books for one whole semester at a time. I have bought books for the first block in the autumn, where there is only one book on the syllabus. So that’s really cool. It was an e-book and it cost DKK 250.<\/p>\n<p>How much we need to spend varies a lot over the course of a whole semester. And at the beginning of the programme, we had to spend a lot more money than we do now. I remember, in particular, a real monstrous tome called \u2018Calculus\u2019 or something like that. It cost almost DKK 1,000, but I have actually been quite happy with it. It is one of the few books I’ve bought on my study programme that I have appreciated. I have kept it.<\/p>\n<p>In general, I am not very good at re-selling my study programme books when I have finished using them. It is also because many of them are e-books, where you only have them for a specific time period because the license expires. So it doesn’t really make sense. That’s also why I buy all my books from new, because it’s almost only e-books.\u00ab<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sometimes you don’t get much out of having the books, so you could just as well have not bought them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Sture Oksholm, fifth semester student<\/p>\n<p> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Are you familiar with the rules for sharing e-books among students?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00bbMy impression is that, as a rule, it is not allowed. This happened on a previous study programme. I don’t know how widespread it has been, but I’ve seen it happen.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p><em>Are you doing anything in particular to be able to afford textbooks?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00bbNo. It may be a bit silly. It is not something that I save up for. It’s just something I buy, and it’s a big item on the budget every time I have to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I have not bought a book because I could see on the syllabus that we don\u2019t have to read a lot in it. Then I’ve just missed it. There are also some books I have bought that I have since regretted.<\/p>\n<p>There was a statistics course where we had to buy a thick, half-expensive book, where we only had to read two chapters in it. That’s when I thought, OK, I’ll survive if I just don’t get it.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes you don’t get much out of having the books, so you could just as well have not bought them. This is, of course, not always the case, and it is difficult to know in advance.\u00ab<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Image","image":{"ID":138422,"id":138422,"title":"Voxpop Oscar Klink Madsen","filename":"dsc_8862-1-scaled.jpg","filesize":608554,"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dsc_8862-1-scaled.jpg","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/det-er-lige-med-at-finde-ud-af-hvad-der-er-lovligt\/dsc_8862-2\/","alt":"","author":"91","description":"","caption":"\u00bbJeg har b\u00f8ger for 2.000 kroner her, den dyreste koster lige under 500 kroner,\u00ab fort\u00e6ller Oscar Klink Madsen, der l\u00e6ser jura p\u00e5 f\u00f8rste semester.","name":"dsc_8862-2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":138414,"date":"2022-09-13 10:51:52","modified":"2022-09-13 12:23:46","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1707,"height":2560,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dsc_8862-1-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dsc_8862-1-480x720.jpg","medium-width":480,"medium-height":720,"medium_large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dsc_8862-1-768x1152.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":1152,"large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dsc_8862-1-1280x1920.jpg","large-width":1280,"large-height":1920,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dsc_8862-1-1024x1536.jpg","1536x1536-width":1024,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dsc_8862-1-1365x2048.jpg","2048x2048-width":1365,"2048x2048-height":2048,"featured-soft":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dsc_8862-1-290x435.jpg","featured-soft-width":290,"featured-soft-height":435,"featured-hard":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dsc_8862-1-290x180.jpg","featured-hard-width":290,"featured-hard-height":180,"narrow":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dsc_8862-1-700x1050.jpg","narrow-width":700,"narrow-height":1050,"extended":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dsc_8862-1-990x1485.jpg","extended-width":990,"extended-height":1485}},"style":"narrow","text_placement":"metadata-below","image_link_url":"","image_link_title":"","caption_prefix":"","enable_alternative_caption":true,"alternative_caption":"\u00bbI have a good DKK 2,000 in books here, the most expensive costing just under DKK 500,\u00ab says Oscar Klink Madsen, who is studying first semester law."},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<h3>Oscar Klink Madsen<\/h3>\n<p>\u00bbI have a good DKK 2,000 in books here, the most expensive costing just under DKK 500. They all came out with new editions this year, and we were discouraged from buying used books, so they are all brand new. I would also like to have the best, so this is fine.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That you have to buy books: This is one of the costs of studying at university.<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Oscar Klink Madsen, first semester student<\/p>\n<p> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have not done anything in particular to be able to afford books. I work, and I knew that I was going to have put some money aside for books. I would actually like to be able to sell on my books when I have finished using them, but I can only do that if they have not been updated again in the meantime.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I would also like to use them as productively as possible, so that I can get the best out of my studies. I would also like to be able to write notes in them, and underline things.<\/p>\n<p>That you have to buy books is one of the costs of studying at university. We also get the SU study grant, so it’s not entirely unreasonable.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p><em>Are you familiar with the rules on the digital sharing of textbooks?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yes, I read an article a couple of years ago about textbooks that were shared on a USB and stuff like that. I don’t think you are allowed to do this. It hasn’t really been an option for me this year, but it’s not something that I would do anyway.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"ArticleEnd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Newsletter","lang_select":"en","identifier":"Newsletter","headline":"Get an email with our top stories","button_text":"Sign up here","class":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"OtherStories","headline":"","hand_picked_posts":true,"references":[{"reference":{"ID":138600,"post_author":"91","post_date":"2022-09-19 07:36:19","post_date_gmt":"2022-09-19 05:36:19","post_content":"\u00bbAlarming numbers.\u00ab\r\n\r\nThis is what the director of the digital rights group<em> Rettighedsalliancen<\/em> Maria Fredslund says after seeing what came out of a new study by the pollster Epinion.\r\n\r\nThe survey shows that almost every second student at Danish universities has acquired digital textbooks illegally. The numbers are stable year-on-year.\r\n<blockquote>The perception among students is that it is actually okay to share digital textbooks, even though it is illegal.\r\n<p class=\"quotee\">Maria Fredslund, Director of Rettighedsalliancen<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\nThe Rettighedsalliancen group fights infringements of copyright, and director Maria Fredslund is concerned by the lack of movement on the issue. She says that students have the wrong attitude when it comes to digital textbooks:\r\n\r\n\u00bbThe perception among students is that it is actually okay to share digital textbooks, even though it is illegal. We want to change that.\u00ab\r\n<h3>Court rulings on UCPH students<\/h3>\r\nTwo medical students from the University of Copenhagen were fined DKK 5,000 and DKK 10,000, respectively, at the end of 2020 for sharing digital textbooks with their fellow students in a closed Facebook group. This pleases the director of the rights group:\r\n\r\n\u00bbWe can see that the police have started to crack down on illegal sharing cases. At the same time they are starting to communicate that it is something to be taken seriously, no matter whether it is films, music or textbooks.\u00ab\r\n\r\nAnd the court rulings are necessary, as awareness campaigns have not been enough to change student perceptions, according to Maria Fredslund.\r\n\r\n\u00bbThere is a need for more focus on this problem. This can be done by the police setting an example in blatant cases of illegality. It will affect attitudes if you can see that infringements are penalised.\u00ab\r\n<h3>Worse off with e-books<\/h3>\r\nAs the owner of a physical textbook, you can freely give it on, or sell it on, if you no longer need it. This is not the case with digital textbooks. You break the law if you share your digital book without permission from the publisher.\r\n\r\nThis is due to the fact that there is a significant difference between the two types of teaching material, according to Maria Fredslund:\r\n\r\n\u00bbWhen you pass on your physical book, you are no longer in possession of it yourself. But you are if you have a digital copy. You make copies and not transfers. That is why it is illegal,\u00ab she says, and continues:\r\n\r\n\u00bbIt has been through test cases in the legal system on whether you can solve this by transferring your used e-books. But as this has not yet been possible for purely technical reasons, you are still not allowed to do so.\u00ab\r\n\r\n<em>Is it then not your responsibility to develop the field, so that users in the future can resell e-books?<\/em>\r\n<blockquote>There is clearly a difference between what a new and a used textbook costs, but this is not an excuse for pirating copies.\r\n<p class=\"quotee\">Maria Fredslund, Director of Rettighedsalliancen<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\u00bbNo, we are not developing services to allow you to resell digital books. It is the publishing industry that has to do this.\u00ab\r\n\r\n<em>At the University Post, we have spoken to several students who reckon that those who hold the rights to books on a syllabus try to make as much money as possible out of them by updating books year after year, so that they are forced to buy the latest versions. Do you recognise this problem?<\/em>\r\n\r\n\u00bbStudents spend an average DKK 2,400 a year on study-related books. 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