obaewankenope:

obaewankenope:

obaewankenope:

fuck google docs so fucking much

i’ve just lost hundredsof docs and pdfs and i’m beyond pissed right now

they’re all permanently gone

actually they’re notholy shit

okay so, gonna tell ya’ll something awesomern

google drive is a mess sometimes with its storage things and if you’re unlucky it might delete some of your files and you won’t realise until it’s well past the point where they won’t be in ‘trash’ anymore and you’re fucked

all is not lost however!

if you’re on drive via browser, hit the little ? in a circle next to the settings cog and select “help”

search for “file recovery”

it’ll show you the ways to try and recover your files on pc, android, and mac etc

these don’t matter

you need to scroll down to the bottom and just hit the “contact us”

you’ll be logged out automatically

log back in

click the little box to give google permission to attempt to restore your files for that account

click “submit”

give them some time to work but it’s an automatic process

i’ve got most of my files back in less than 10 minutes

all is not lost! rejoice!

I’m gonna reblog this again bc wow but was it helpful to learn!

nichristi:

ms-demeanor:

ms-demeanor:

ms-demeanor:

owl-librarian:

ms-demeanor:

bad news, professor, the sixty dollar book of short stories and poems that you “edited” for our english 101 class is out of stock from the school bookstore, the included texts are all available online, and I have constructed a google doc to share with the class.

Kids, if you are in an English 101 class and you have a textbook that costs more than twenty bucks you should check your syllabus and see if the assigned readings are available online.

English 101 professors fucking love stories that were originally published in the New Yorker or poems that are 100 years old.

Are you taking an English 101 class during the fall semester? I give it an 80% probability of including an Edgar Allan Poe short story and you DO NOT PAY for Edgar Allan Poe short stories you go to Gutenberg.org and you read for free. (my class is doing the cask of amontillado and i look forward to memeing with you in october.)

Anyway if you’re in an English or Composition class and your professor has assigned the third edition of the Little Seagull handbook this site definitely does not include the entire text at the bottom of the page and you definitely should not save it from there. (i would not recommend trying to download the PDF, tho. Just copy the text.)

Also please, please, please check your college/university’s library! They have the budget you don’t, and mostly do their very best to buy all required textbooks, often including coursepacks. Often you can check out the books for a limited period of time (say a couple hours or a few days) if it’s a required text, OR they may have them electronically for you to download/access.  (or both!)

VERY MUCH THIS.

If your campus library is currently open and allowing people to check out books, there is a VERY good chance that your required textbook will be available for on-campus loans of a few hours.

What you do is this:

• Wait until you have your syllabus
• Go to the library and check out the required text and use a private study room
• Use the high resolution camera in your pocket (because almost all of us are carrying one these days) to take pictures of every page of the assigned readings.
• Organize the photos into files titled with the name of the class and the due date for each reading
• Say “fuck you” to the $300, 1200 page Literary Theory book that you just photographed 87 pages of and live your best academic life carefree.

Also, my dear young friends who are starting college for the first time, I would like to introduce you to the Perdue University Online Writing Lab and its Citation Style Guide.

This is a free online resource that will tell you what the most up-to-date citation style is for MLA, APA, AMA, Chicago Style, and more.

Don’t fail your bibliographies, friends.

I was a lit major and even just getting the paperbacks for a bunch of my classes was sometimes prohibitively expensive so I used to:

A) Read a LOT of Dickens on Gutenberg on the tiny screen of my sidekick

and

B) Copy full texts off of gutenberg and print them eight pages to a sheet (four on each side) on printer paper and staple them together.

Here’s a fun thing! You can also get a book on kindle, disconnect your kindle from the internet, read the book, and return the book for a full refund. This works best if it’s something you can read in a short time and you don’t need the device for anything else while you’re reading that book.

Also, music majors! If you’re looking for music, imslp is a free database of the Classics. There’s sheet music, recordings, libretto, etc. Also also, if you find a piece of music online but they want you to pay to print, absolutely don’t find a full screen version of the piece, screenshot, and edit the resulting photo to print.

As someone who just graduated, all of this, plus:

• Don’t forget about your local libraries too! Don’t have access to the physical building because you moved to campus or the pandemic or whatever? See if they have the books you need as ebooks since a lot of libraries now have ebook and audiobook collections you can access through Libby, Overdrive and other apps. Your university might not have the book but other libraries might.
• If you’re doing research and find a book you really want to use but you can’t find it at your library, see if you can get it from another university. I think most universities have an interlibrary loaning system where they can request a book from another institution on your behalf and you just have to pick it up from your library and return it to them. Ask the librarians for help if you’re not sure how to do this.
• Since this is mostly for first years (welcome) let me introduce you to JSTOR for all your scholarly article needs. Just login through your institution.
• Also for research, your library is not just for books, there are tons of other online resources besides JSTOR for scholarly articles, audio files, films and documentaries, archives, etc. If you find something through Google that you want to use but it’s not free to access, check through your library. But also, like, there are actually tons of really interesting movies you can watch for free, so, have fun!
• Seriously, SO MANY short stories, poems, and entire novels studied in Lit classes are royalty free and therefore easily found online. 
• Even for textbooks check your library before purchasing. I’ve found a  few of them readily available as ebooks on the library that you can access anytime and even download for free. 

For anyone worried that they’ll get in trouble for not using the exact book that is required on the syllabus, most professors don’t care, at least in English where the novel published in 1800 is still the same novel just maybe with a different foreword. They know you’re up to your eyeballs in fees so they usuallydon’t care which edition you buy/read (some will even tell you it’s in the library), just make sure you are clear about which edition you are citing in papers so they know why there is a discrepancy between your page numbers and theirs. For the cases where the edition does matter (like they actually want you to read the specific foreword of that specific edition because it’s actually useful) you can still try to find that one in libraries and such.